1. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES: perspectives from Russia and Scotland FRED GUY Director of Information and Communications Technology NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND

2. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS SCOTLAND AND RUSSIA 400 YEARS Mercenaries in Muscovy Physicians to the Tsars “Caledonian Phalanx” of entrepreneurs - architecture to shipping, industry to photography

3. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS COLLABORATION Private sector - airlines; railways; IT Public sector - funding agencies

4. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS Creation of an Information System for the Russian State Library TELRUS 9705 December 1998-June 2000 TACIS EUROPEAN COMMISSION - DG 1A Directorate General for External Relations

5. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS NATIONAL LIBRARIES: FUNCTIONS Acquisition - legal deposit; purchase; donation; exchange Retention Preservation Access

6. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS RSL: History Founded 1862 as Moscow’s first free public library Known as The Library of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumiantsev Museum or Rumiantsev Library 1919. Lenin signed Resolution to increase staff 1921. Became a state depository

7. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS RUMIANTSEV LIBRARY

8. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS HISTORY (CONT) 26th January 1924 named after V.I. Lenin 6th Feb. 1925. State Lenin Library of USSR. 1955. New building opened 1992. Russian State Library 1994. Modernisation Plan 1996. Plan revised Estimates. $750,000,000

9. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS RSL - MAIN BUILDING

10. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS RSL - Entrance Hall

11. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS RSL - Main Reading Room

12. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS NLS: History Founded in 1680s as Faculty of Advocates Library 1710 1st Copyright Act (Queen Anne) 1925 National Library of Scotland Act

13. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS NLS - George IV Bridge

14. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS NLS - George IV Bridge

15. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS GEORGE IV BRIDGE - Entrance Hall

16. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS RSL: Statistics 3023 members of staff 42,000,000 items (books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps). 7,000 visitors daily (ca. 1,500,000 pa) 30,000 items circulated daily Lof C 1,000,000 visitors BL 500,000

17. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS RSL - Storage area after refurbishment

18. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS NLS: Statistics 250 staff 8 million printed items inc. rare and priceless items (eg. Gutenberg Bible) 1.6 million maps Manuscripts, music scores 230,000 items pa via legal deposit

19. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS PROJECT OVERVIEW Specification, selection and implementation of a modern, scaleable computer system Analysis of data and data flows and input of data into system Preparation of a “business” strategy including means of sustaining system beyond project completion

20. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS Creation of an Information System for the Russian State Library TACIS funded 1,000,000 Euro over 18 months Money via EU member countries

21. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS TACIS EUROPEAN COMMISSION - DG 1A Directorate General for External Relations Technical Assistance to the New Independent States (former republics of the Soviet Union except Baltic States) and Mongolia Since 1991. 3000 projects worth ECU 3,300,000,000 For transfer of know-how thereby fostering development of market economies and democratic societies

22. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS THE PROJECT NLS a consortium member. Leader British Council. Other partners Jouve SA (France) & EDS-LANIT (Germany/Russia). Experts also on procurement and marketing. Providing advice Writing reports Working with Russian colleagues Overseeing a key component

23. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS RSL:Automation history 1970s - investigations 1990 -VTLS (USA) package 1996-Specification prepared jointly with National Library of Russia 1998 -MEKA 1999-Aleph 500 (Israel) selected

24. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS NLS: Automation history 1978-1985LOCAS (British Library) 1985-1987SCOLCAP 1988-1999VTLS (USA) 1999-Voyager (USA)

25. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS PROGRESS TO DATE Server (SUN 450) installed Aleph 500 installed Data (retroconverted) + MEKA data loaded Training plan prepared Systems librarian training delivered + training on Unix

26. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS BUILDING THE DIGITAL LIBRARY Acquisition Retention Preservation Access

27. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS ACQUISITION - NLS In house projects: maps; manuscripts; photographs Deposit of Ordnance Survey data Voluntary Code.

28. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS RETENTION & PRESERVATION NLS Policies being developed Awaiting outcomes from CEDARS and NEDLIB

29. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS ACCESS - NLS NLS WWW SITE - WWW.NLS.UK INHOUSE ACCESS DATABASE

30. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENTS NLS New Opportunities Fund Proposal Use of EnCompass - software from Endeavor Information Systems Inc. Large scale co-operative project using, for example IBM Digital Library

31. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS DIGITAL DEVELOPMENTS - RSL Memory of the World - First Printed Slavic books of 15th and 16th centuries; archival material relating to Dostevsky and Pushkin Access via http://SUN450.agir.ru/memory

32. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS FUTURE PLANS - RSL Project to digitise 50,000 books including many in foreign languages SFX Reference Linking Software Solution from ExLibris

33. MARCH 2000 RFG/NLS CONCLUSIONS Acquisition. In house digitisation strategies to be determined. Legal deposit only voluntary at present. Retention and preservation. Awaiting outcomes from other projects. Access. Rudimentary. Collaboration. Essential.