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Free access for everyone to Danish National Union
Catalogue

• Librarian International 2001- session B305
• Leif Andresen
• Danish National Library Authority

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The speaker

• Leif Andresen
• Danish National Library Authority
• Library Advisory Officer
• Fields of responsibilities
• Danish National Union Catalogue
• Library Automation, e.g. Z39.50
• Standardisation

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Background information

• A common National Union Catalogue called DanBib
  including holdings of the public and research
  libraries in Denmark
• Each library has it own unique list of all other
  libraries sorted according to most-relevant-to-sen
  d-requests-to as an integrated part of DanBib

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Background information

• DanBib is run by Danish Bibliographic Centre
  based on an agreement with the Danish State and
  the Danish municipalities
• DanBib includes - besides the library holdings -
  the Danish National Bibliography and MARC-records
  from British Library and Library of Congress

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bibliotek.dk

• As part of a new library act in 2000
• Free access for everyone to the Danish National
  Union Catalogue
• This new service is named bibliotek.dk
• and the English user interface library.dk
• was opened 31 October 2000

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bibliotek.dk

• Objectives of bibliotek.dk
• Public access via web-interface
• Give the user the option to request
• Open quickly
• No new requirement to local libraries

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User perspectives

• User interface was developed starting from
  scratch
• A test panel gave input
• subject is high-rated
• A simple user interface

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Searching

• Simple search
• Advanced search
• Subject, Author, Title, ISBN, free text and year
• Menu with type and language
• SCAN
• Author, Title, Subject
• CCL-screen

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Requesting

• The request process have 5 steps after selecting
  the bibliographic item
• 1) Search for my library
• 2) Select my library
• 3) Identification of borrower
• 4) Approve request
• 5) Receipt

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Requesting

• Notice
• The borrower selects the pick-up library
• The borrower doesn't need to know which library
  the books belong to
• The Inter Library Loan process is for the
  libraries - not for the borrower
• The libraries have to procure the book in the
  cheapest manner

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Requesting - seen from the library

• The requests are divided into two parts
• material located at users library
• material to be requested from other libraries
• The requests are received
• by e-mail
• in a database

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A chary start

• Opened 31 October 2000
• A press release
• No campaign
• 18.500 requests in February 2001
• 80 - 100 users during the afternoon

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Campaign this week

• A postcard for every household in Denmark
• A pamphlet to be distributed from the libraries -
  ½ million copies
• Advertising banners on popular portals
• Articles in journals and newspapers

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Developments

• Last Saturday
• Adding links to Internet services developed by
  the libraries
• Better match of different records of same edition
  of same title
• Future
• Adding holdings information
• Titles you can buy link to booksellers

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Consequences of bibliotek.dk

• More loans
• More requests for material located in research
  libraries
• Requests for new books not purchased yet
• New users - some nerds have discovered the
  libraries

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Consequences of bibliotek.dk

• More effective use of the libraries
• More library services to more people
• Better return of the taxpayers money spend on the
  libraries