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Library co-operation in Belgium. Julien Van Borm Director UIA-Library University of Antwerp. Belgium. The country and its structures Belnet. Belgium. Belgium The country and its structures. Population: 10.350.000 From an centralised to a confederate state
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The country and its structures
Population: 10.350.000
From an centralised to a confederate state
1830 a centralised state
By 2003 a federal state
Regions
Flanders
Brussels
Wallonia
Cultural communities
Flemish (60%)
French (40%)
German (60.000)
The country and its structures
Library co-operation in general
Typology of library co-operation.
M. Line (UK).Good in se?
E. Häkli (FI). Front office and back office
Typology
Co-operation activities
Co-operative acquisition schemes
Nowadays used for the co-operative licence schemes for e-information
Idea of cross access (Elsevier ScienceDirect)
Co-operative retention (depots)
Union catalogues
Interlending
Library Co-operation in general
M. Line
Once seen as
Good in se
Question marks (M. Line)
Too much concentration on the means
Not enough thinking about the ends that co-operation is to serve
No clear definition of the purposes
No look for alternatives
Lack of clarity
Mostly seen from a national viewpoint
Not enough cost conscious
Library Co-operation in general
E. Häkli
Front office
All activities directly related to the user
User in the library
Distant user
This is the core business of every library
Back office
The local library is to free itself from the back office tasks
Cataloguing
Library automation systems
Acquisition/organisation of e-information
E. Häkli
A national centre should perform these tasks
Equipment
Know how
Funding
Ministries
Universities
Polytechnics
Research institutes
E. Häkli
Management
Co-operation agreement
Contract
Board
Staff
Cost accounting and billing
Control by
Libraries and universities
End users
Library co-operation in Belgium
Public libraries
Flanders
Legislation (1978 and 2002)
A library in each community
Library co-operation
Neighbouring cities and villages
Flemish level (VCOB)
Over 300 public libraries
Many new library buildings
French speaking community
Less well organised and developed public library structure
Library co-operation in Belgium
Research libraries
Conference of university libraries and the Royal library (COBIRA)
Union catalogues
Acquisitions
ILL
French speaking Belgium
BICfB: Consortium for e-info
Flanders
VOWB (Flemish Research Libraries Council)
General co-operation
Elektron: Consortium for e-info
Two library networks
Library co-operation in Belgium
Products of the co-operation between research libraries
Union catalogues
ILL
E-info
Library co-operation in Belgium
Union catalogues
Antilope: periodicals
Physical union catalogue
On line
Updated on a regular basis
Manually
Electronically
Library co-operation in Belgium
Union catalogues
CCB
Union catalogue of monographs
Irregular publication
Download from local catalogues
SGML format
CCB DDT
On CD ROM
Library co-operation in Belgium
Union catalogues
UniCat: A virtual union catalogue
Technology chosen: OAI
OAI (Open Archives Initiative Standard)
Metadata structures
Harvesting
Library co-operation in Belgium
Interlending and document supply
Rules
Loans
Photocopies
Uniform tariffs
Internal
External
Impala: the Belgian electronic document ordering system
Virlib: the Belgian electronic document supply system
Library co-operation in Belgium
Impala: the Belgian electronic document ordering system
Use
End user driven
Library controlled
Linked with databases
Antilope
CBB
ERL databases
….
Library co-operation in Belgium
Impala: the Belgian electronic document ordering system
General information on IMPALA
Making a request
Sending of the request
Follow up of the request
Clearing house
Management information
Number of (satisfied) requests
Main suppliers
Response times
Costs
List of frequently asked titles
Library co-operation in Belgium
Virlib: the Belgian electronic document supply system
Scanning
Ariel
Appending the scan to the Impala request
Virlib servers
Virlib users
Delivery on the desk of the user
Delivery via the library
Library co-operation in Belgium
The e-library
BICfB (French Belgium)
Consortium for e-information
Secondary databases
Primary information: full text journals
Created by the French speaking universities
Run by the libraries of these universities
Funding
The regional government
The universities
Library co-operation in Belgium
The e-library
Elektron (Flanders)
Consortium for e-information
Secondary sources
Primary information: full text
Creation
VOWB (Flemish Research Libraries Council)
Flemish Ministry for Research Planning
Ministry of Education
Funding
2.000.000 EUR/year from government
Extra funding from universities
Library co-operation in Belgium
The library network consortia
Libis Net (K.U. Leuven)
Anet (University of Antwerp)
Mission
To support the participating libraries in their library management and in the services they provide for their patrons.
Partners
University libraries
Polytechnics
Parliament libraries
Other research libraries
Mission
Support to the participating librariesand their users
Library automation
E-library
Partners
University libraries
Polytechnic libraries
Public library of Antwerp (ANUBIS)
Other research libraries
