LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 1 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Library Services in the Digital Environment Martin Svoboda State Technical Library, Praha, Czechia

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 2 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Overview Information technology in libraries State-of-the-art systems New requirements Response Legal aspects Government support Case studies Virtual Polytechnic Library STM Portal

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LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 4 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Library Current Integrated Library System Cataloguing Services: OPAC, loans, interlibrary, EDD, … Central database - catalogue Suppliers External resources Internal resources Users

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 5 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Current Integrated Library Systems Library aims at offering what it owns or what it can find and “catalogue” Limiting factors are money / staff knowledge of real user needs

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 6 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Paradigm change Classical environment focused on institution -> ownership closed static Cyberspace environment focused on user needs -> service / access open dynamic © Saša Skenderija, Budapest 1998 !!!

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 7 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Development of needs e-book- store freely available documents cut-out services, SDI licensed resources pay-per-view resources …? User portal direct access subject access authentication …? Library OPAC,loans, ILL, EDD, …

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 8 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Tomorrow’s system User seeks, what he/she needs regardless where to find it Library is just one of possible resources Limiting factors are ability to navigate among the possibilities willingness to spend effort / time money (VERY individual)

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 9 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 To sum up So what now? Focus shift from description to mediation of resources Electronic accessibility printed  EDD digitised collections: historical / current publishers/aggregators: Web of Science, Elsevier, Springer, IOPP / EBSCO, ProQuest, Dialog, … How to deliver to client in a simple and intuitive way?

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 10 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Components available (1) Standards for document description: AACR2, MARC21, FRBR, … reformatting: DOBM, MASTER, … identification: ISSN, ISBN, SICI, … linking: OpenURL, DOI & CrossRef inter-system communication: Z39.50 & Bath profile, ILL (ISO ), …

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 11 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Components available (2) Utilities Networking - Internet Functioning Union catalogues & Shared cataloguing systems The craftsmanship & tools are here Legal framework not too suitable but I will refrain from spending time with that, that would be another paper

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 12 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Answer: portals, gateways aggregation of all available resources under one interface: catalogues A&I databases, full-text databases „on demand“ digitisation e-bookstore search engines (Google, …) single login requirement orientation in the flood??? subject-specific selection of resources – e.g. METALIB dynamic linking of referenced resources - SFX (ELAG ’01)

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LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 14 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Czech Government Support RISK program (Min. of Culture) Development of Library Information Network Budget: ~1 mil $/year State Information Policy Public Library Information Services Budget: $4mil/2001, $2mil/2002, <$1mil/2003 State Research Policy – Information Resources for R&D Budget: ~4 mil $/year

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 15 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 RISK impact ALS * 3 Internet * 6 Website * 5

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 16 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 State Information Policy impact Library Public Information Services 9 program lines: Public Library Information Centres (continuation of RISK): ~180 projects Continuing Education: 14 working training centres, central website Digital Archive, Retrospective Conversion, Digitisation of Rare Books, Microfilming, E- resources, Union Catalogue: “National Programs” up and running Program co-ordination in National Library

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 17 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 State R&D Policy impact State Tech Lib as an example: ~8 full-text collections (Science Direct, Springer, ACS, J.Wiley, EBSCO, ProQuest, Academic Press, Meos, …) > 10 thousand titles ~1800 further titles on the Web ( printed) ~6 index/abstract databases (INSPEC, Compendex, ICONDA, Metadex, PCI, WoS, …) Locally available (in Czech) ASPI, ČSNI, Anopres, Firemní monitor, SIGLE,…) Budget: ~ $3 mil., out of it >$1 mil. resources

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LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 19 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Case studies – STL projects Virtual polytechnic library - VPL services based on union catlg of periodicals electronic document delivery “side effects” STM portal „cataloguing“ of electronic resources streamlined access to licensed resources statistics - evaluation

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LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 21 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 VPL - impulses & goals Impulses further development of previous Integrated VIrtual Library project Ministry of Culture incentive “Optimisation …” Goals virtual union of collections & services of participating libraries dramatic increase in quality of information services to their clients “informed” acquisition enabled

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 22 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 VPL participants founders - 9 institutions 6 universities + 3 research libraries service centre in STL system is open and is growing today catalogues of > 25 libraries in VPL UC other libraries interested in joining VPL or installing VPL „engine“

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 23 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 VPL union catalogue base for electronic document delivery service NOT a bibliographic tool maintained online by participating libraries information not only about collection, but also about services of participating libraries by-product – tool for informed acquisition

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 24 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 VPL software Principle - copy ordering through Union Catalogue, supplier any participating library, mutual accounting, [payment by card?] based on former “user accounts” support of orders through other UC via OpenURL digitisation workplace service digital master routing accounting clearinghouse

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 25 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 VPL - work cycle download and print, destroy e- version Library* Service CentreUser post request find document http s scan, send to SC SUP choose supplier, pass request http XML http XML PWP paste to user private web page deduct/add fee UC http OpenURL

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 26 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Impact Virtual “union” of printed journal collections electronic document delivery based on VPL UC supplier – any participating library Improved co-ordination of printed journals knowledge of collections & orders of partner libraries balancing the partner library acquisition profiles  more efficient use of budgets

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 27 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Statistics

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LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 29 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Uniform Information Gateway Project of National Library – for all library types multi-cast search subject based selection of licensed resources useful free resources catalogues, e-bookshops, etc. access control – single login resource linking Metalib - SFX

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 30 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 STM Portal - goals „cataloguing“ all licensed and useful free resources data about resource availability access control left to UIG collection of evaluation data methodology – based on ICOLC guidelines feedback for decision makers

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 31 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 STM Portal - tools tertiary database data on licensed resources and their accessibility statistical data - feedback resource linking support of Z39.50 protocol, introduction of National [Bath] profile implementation of SFX – OpenURL – more resources and targets made OpenURL aware

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 32 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 STM Portal and UIG UIG KB-UIG STM Portal TB SFX server KB-SFX searched document odkaz documents, resource info, statistics OpenURL Z39.50, URL Z39.50 searched document URL Query Z39.50 OpenURL URL SFX targets: documents catalogues e-bookshop URL Z39.50

LIDA 2003 Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 33 Mljet & Dubrovnik, May, 2003 Instead of a Conclusion What’s more important: the „pipes“ or the what flows through them? Neither! “The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but to those who control filtering, searching, and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace” [Saffo, Wired, 1994]

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