The situation in a small community

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The situation in a small community

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Faroe Island

• Føroya Landsbókasavn The Faroese National
  Library
• 15 public libraries
• 17 mill. dkr in 2002
• library act from January 1st 2002

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Føroya Landsbókasavn

• founded in 1828
• 144.000 volumes and other material
• www.flb.fo
• serve a varied fan of customers
• interlibrary loan is of utmost importance

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Subjects

• oceanography and aquaculture
• pedagogics
• nursing

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Interlibrary loans

• 1999
• - 1298 that is 6,8 of total 19.000
• 2000
• - 1382 that is 7,9 of total 17.500
• 2001
• - 1609 that is 9 of total 18.000

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Where do we order from

• The State and University Library in Aarhus,
  Denmark
• Other Danish research libraries
• Norwegian research libraries
• Other Nordic libraries

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Databases we use

• Danbib/Netpunkt
• Nosp
• Internet

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What can we offer

• Faroese books
• Faroese magazines
• In 2001 we got 25 requests

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The Future

• CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstract)
• Academic Press
• Blackwell Science
• ScienceDirect
• Kluwer