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Improving Library and Information Services - Building Virtual Library Community

Learn about CUC's Scientific Information System (SIS) project aiding research and education in Croatia. Explore digital resources, continuing education, and improved library services. Join the virtual library community today!

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Improving Library and Information Services - Building Virtual Library Community

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  1. Improving Library and Information Services - Building Virtual Library Community CUC 2001, Zagreb Jadranka Stojanovski Ruđer Bošković Institute jadranka.stojanovski@irb.hr http://www.szi.hr

  2. Agenda • History • Beginning of the Scientific Information System (SIS) project • Activities • Future CUC

  3. Goals • Scientific Information System as a support of research and development, and high education in Croatia • Providing access to the relevant information • Subject modular subsystems containing related libraries and connected strongly with the same tasks and goals (users!) • Strong support from the Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology CUC

  4. SIS subsystems • Biomedicine; • Engineering and computing; • Humanities; • Natural sciences and biotechnology; • Social sciences; CUC

  5. History • Scientific information system (SIS) initiative was realised in 1994 with the Natural sciences and biotechnology subsystem (10 libraries were included) • 1997 Biomedicine and Engineering • 2001 Humanities • (2002 Social sciences) CUC

  6. Today • 80 academic and special libraries are included in the project • Ministry of Science and Technology is still financialy supporting the project CUC

  7. Tasks • Provide computer equipment for libraries • Wired libraries • Union catalogues • Create, collect and purchase information resources • Continuing education • Digitalisation of special library collections • Improve old and introduce new library services • International cooperation • Croatian Scientific BibliographyMonitoring CUC

  8. Union catalogue Library 2 catalogues Library 1 catalogues Library 3 catalogues Union catalogue Library n catalogues Library 4 catalogues Library … catalogues Library 5 catalogues Library 6 catalogues CUC

  9. Union catalogue cds ISIS CROLIST Library catalogues Ferlib SAND Medved Clipper CUC

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  13. PRESKOK CUC

  14. Creating information resources • electronic publications (annual reports,bibliographies, recent additions to the library, weekly schedule of lectures, events...) • instruction guides, tutorials, help • phone books • directory of Croatian libraries • library news • FAQs • reports • statistics CUC

  15. Collecting information resources • different virtual collections like • Virtual reference library • Science on Internet • Croatian scientists • Search engines • ejournals, ebooks, earchives, databases • publishers • libraries • online bookshops CUC

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  21. Purchasing information resources • commercial databases • ejournals • ebooks • encyclopaedias, dictionaries etc. CUC

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  24. Continuing education • Tutorials, workshops and seminars (SRCe, CARNet, libraries…) • Education oriented toward • Computer literacy • Classical librarianship • Recent trends in LIS (Library and Information Sciences): digital libraries, epublishing, consortia, information retrieval, etc. CUC

  25. SIS seminar CUC

  26. Improved traditional library services • Acquisition • Circulation • Interlibrary loan (ILL) • Cataloguing • Classification • SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) CUC

  27. Introducing new library services • Network services (mostly web based) • Virtual collections • Education • Free email • Improve scientific communication • Improve communication between librarians CUC

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  29. Science on the Internet CUC

  30. International cooperation • International associations (IFLA, SLA, ALA, EURASLIC…) • National and international project (Elektronische ZeitschriftenDatenbank) CUC

  31. Monitoring Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI) CUC

  32. Other • Working on common tasks (organisation of education, updating databases, meetings, reports etc.) • Monitoring current developmentsin the library software field • Sharing experience between libraries • Providing necessary technical support • Active participation on local and international meetings CUC

  33. …Other • Coordination activities regarding journals subscription • Strong cooperation with HE LIS departments • Szi-bib mailing list • Promotion of library services through different publications (journals, etc.) CUC

  34. FUTURE • SOFTWARE, SOFTWARE, SOFTWARE!!! • BETTER COMPUTERS! • FASTER NETWORKS! • MORE EDUCATION! • MORE LIBRARIES! • MORE DISTRIBUTION! • BETTER COOPERATION INSIDE AND OUTSIDE SIS! • NEW WEB! • MORE PROMOTION! • REAL UNION CATALOGUES! • FASTER AND CHEAPER DOCUMENT DELIVERY CHANELS CUC

  35. THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION ! CUC

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