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Some figures Public Libraries in Berlin

Öffentliches Wissen Public Libraries in the times of the Internet Christine-Dorothea Sauer Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin. Some figures Public Libraries in Berlin. Berlin districts Public Libraries - 173 Inhabitants Berlin 3.4 million Year 2000

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Some figures Public Libraries in Berlin

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  1. Öffentliches WissenPublic Libraries in the times of the InternetChristine-Dorothea SauerZentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin

  2. Some figures Public Libraries in Berlin • Berlin districts Public Libraries - 173 • Inhabitants Berlin 3.4 million Year 2000 • Visitors 7.0 million • Circulations 17.6 million • Holdings 5.8 million • Book/media funds 5.6million

  3. Zentral- und Landesbibliothek BerlinYear 2000 • Visitors 1.6 million • Circulations 3.1 million • Holdings 2.3 million • Book/media funds 3.7 million

  4. Budget Shortcuts • Ansatz im Haushaltsplan einiger Berliner Bezirke für den Medienerwerb der bezirklichen Bibliotheken 2002: Null Euro • ZLB Ansatz Haushaltsplan 2001 gegenüber 2000: Reduzierung um 3.9 Millionen DM (Ausgleich: 1.5 Millionen) • 2002 ?

  5. The times they are a-changin´...

  6. Public Libraries • „Open library“ • Committed to the constitutional priniple of the freedom of information • Access to information for everybody

  7. Library – basic business • Collecting different materials • indexing • sorting • Useroriented presentation • Libraries administer objects – do not own, do not have control over the content

  8. Library • Real place • Virtual place • Public space

  9. Library – real place • Constrained by physicalelements – building, staff, holdings • Ownership • Private consultancy • Meeting point

  10. Library – virtual place • Less ownership • Access to information instead of ownwership • Information service provider

  11. Library – public space • Social participation • No obligation to buy • Meeting point • Internet: counterbalance to privatization of the information market • „Virtual“ public space - balance/compensation between "information poor" and "information rich"?

  12. „Hybrid Library“ Forms • Traditional Library • Intranet-based Library • Internet-based Library

  13. „Hybrid Library“ • Ownership: all formats print – digital • Access:offline - online

  14. „Hybrid Library“ in practice

  15. Internet-based Library • Being present on the internet • Offering holdings virtually • Offering virtual holdings • Serving a virtual patron in a virtual world • Offering and using virtual services • Using a virtual staff • In time - On demand - Online

  16. Internet-based Library –Going Where the Users Are

  17. Internet-based Library • Library without walls • „Virtual“ public space - balance / compensation between "information poor" and "information rich"? • Customers ? • Costs – funding body • Licence problems

  18. Intranet-based Library • Online - access to private hosts from the library • Offline-access to local databases in the library intranet (CD-ROM collection ...) • Catalogues • Reference service

  19. Real, „traditional“ library • Place, from where customers can use Internet and Intranet • Acccess to real services: reference, lending ... • Meeting point

  20. „Hybrid Library“ - Marketing • Libraries administer objects • While we may posses the physical objects, we do not own, do not have control over the content • We are unable to create capital directly from them

  21. „Hybrid Library“ - Marketing • Supply and demand • Costumers • Competitors • Gap in the information market? • Fee or free ?

  22. „Hybrid Library“ - Marketing Strengths • Professionalism • Media- and Informationcompetence • Private consultancy online, on demand, in time

  23. The times they are a-changin´...

  24. Management of change Cooperation • Among librariesresource sharing (virtual reference teams) • External partners • Consortia • Preserve the public space in the information market?

  25. Union Catalogues • VOEBB http://www.voebb.de • KOBV http://www.kobv.de/ • GBV http://www.brzn.de/ • OCLC http://www.oclc.org/ • PICARTA http://www.pica.nl/du/

  26. Compensating: information poor – information rich • Improve information- and mediacompetence • Private consultancy and assistance

  27. Information- and Mediacompetence

  28. Information- and Mediacompetence

  29. Public Libraries at the start ...

  30. Management of change • Old strengths – new environment • New services • The most important element in the emerging library is the human interface

  31. Voraussetzung/ Requirements • Sufficient funding • Ausreichende materielle Austattung • Nicht die Attraktivität, Medienvielfalt und Leistungsfähigkeit der Bibliotheken durch einen finanziellen Kahlschlag gefährden • Voraussetzungen für den Übergang in die online Welt schaffen und erhalten • Funktionierende online Verbindungen in alle Welt, aber keine Medien in den Bibliotheken?

  32. Thank you very much for your attention Vielen Dank für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit Christine-D. Sauer sauer@zlb.de

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