1. Electric Connections 2004 National Library of Scotland Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon

2. Electric Connections 2004 We will develop the existing website into a Virtual National Library of Scotland –Digitisation –Online exhibitions –Remote access –Collaboration http://www.nls.uk/professional/policy/strategy.html National Library of Scotland Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon

3. Electric Connections 2004 Scottish Executive Cultural Review (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Arts-Culture)http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Arts-Culture –“The Commission will be asked to explore the notion of cultural rights for the Scottish citizen…and define how these might be translated into a scheme of entitlements” Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2003.htm http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2003.htm –“as Scotland’s only Legal Deposit Library, NLS will be making every effort to collect e-material relevant to the recorded knowledge and heritage of Scotland.” National Library of Scotland Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon

4. Electric Connections 2004 National Library of Scotland Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon – Digitisation – Digital preservation – Library systems – Web content/editing – Web development – Intranet

5. Electric Connections 2004 National Library of Scotland Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon

6. Electric Connections 2004 Services for remote users –Online registration –Remote access to secure resources Online payment system –High resolution images Federated searching across all resources Increased digital content (from 30 000 to 0.5 million by 2009) National Library of Scotland Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon

7. Electric Connections 2004 Digital preservation –Handheld materials –Online materials (e-journals, e-books etc.) –Websites UKWAC http://www.webarchive.org.uk/http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ –Legal Deposit Libraries Committee Digital infrastructure; metadata; preservation; collection management; shared secure access Interoperability –Metadata, standards and protocols National Library of Scotland Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon

8. Electric Connections 2004 Staff launch of ENCompass –Federated search –Digital image delivery –OpenURL resolution –Limited service Cross-searching work ongoing Load testing National Library of Scotland Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon

9. Electric Connections 2004 Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon

10. Electric Connections 2004 Web-mapping –Geographic interface to collection –ARCIMS, ColdFusion and OS data –Partnership with Map Library –http://geo.nls.uk/http://geo.nls.uk/ National Library of Scotland Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon

11. Electric Connections 2004 National Library of Scotland Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon

12. Electric Connections 2004 Website –The Word on the Street Google optimised Positive feedback –Accessibility work CSS text-based navigation replacing graphics –Market research Interviews; usability labs; online questionnaire; stats analysis National Library of Scotland Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon

13. Electric Connections 2004 Website –The Word on the Street “The Word on the Streets is just the sort of resource I've been looking for for about a decade of working on early modern popular culture in Scotland” “I sat back in my chair, dumbstruck. I punched the air with both arms and shouted "Yahoo!" It was there, recorded in the National Library of Scotland's web site. As I read it, line after line came flooding back, familiar once more.” [Back]Back National Library of Scotland Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon

14. Electric Connections 2004 “You lazy wretch, cries Mrs Doyle” Dynamic link: http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/subject.cfm?key=robbery Mimics standard static page: http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/subject.cfm/key/robbery Link to record: http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm?id=14700 Dynamically constructed as: http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/14700 –Requires a browse mechanism –Search engine spider – follows all links [Back]Back National Library of Scotland

15. Electric Connections 2004 Planned for 2004-2005 –Paper-based remote registration –Pilot e-payment system –Remote access to online resources –Pilot digital preservation project –Digitisation projects ‘Scots Abroad’ Early map treasures Early Scottish photographs Genealogical, geographical and historical materials National Library of Scotland Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon

16. Electric Connections 2004 Questions? Contact: s.bains@nls.uks.bains@nls.uk National Library of Scotland Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon