A MODEL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB LIBRARY SYSTEM

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• Acquisition
• Dubravka Luic Vudrag
• Sonja Avalon
• Alisa Martek
• Mila Telenta Tomljenovic

• A MODEL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB LIBRARY
  SYSTEM

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Introduction

• Acquisition of information sources - organisation
• Consortia for acquisition of electronic souces
• Currently there is Center for online databases, a
  project of Ministry of science, education and
  sport, Institute Rudjer Boskovic and CARNet not
  a formal consortia, but a consortial database
  usage with no libraries in the system
  coordination
• University and faculty/institutes holding types

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Goal and purpose

• Cooperative / consortial acquisition
• All types of information sources according to the
  university curricula
• Cooperative development and administration of
  relevant holding and collection (physical and
  virtual)
• Active support in learning and research and
  development processes at the university
  (according to the Bologna declaration)

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Expected results

• Contribution to the study quality at the
  University of Zagreb
• Scientific production and quality increase
• Usage and number of new information sources
  increase, their availability and access
  possibilities for all university system members
• More intense inclusion and Croation authors
  recognition in the worlds scientific production,
  citation in the secundary publications
• Informed, educated and content users

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Members of the University of Zagreb library
university system

• CENTRAL LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY
• multidisciplinary and disciplinary specific
  sources
• Curricula references database (BYTES, Yale
  University)
• Consortial acqusition of e-resources (journals,
  books, databases, reference) for all members of
  the system
• References of all scientific projects at the
  University of Zagreb

Central library of the University (NUL)
Faculty library Departament libraries (63
libraries)

• FACULTY LIBRARY
• No. of handbook/compusory literature copies
  (Standard -?)
• Cooperation with contral library and with other
  libraries at the university

Institute library / Polytecnic library (232
libraries)

• Institute library/
• Polytecnic library
• Disciplinary specific sources

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Management, funding and system members
relationship
Ministry of science, education and sport
Library Board
Universities
NUL
Other University libraries in Croatia
University libarary in Zagreb
SRCE / CARNet (Croatian Academic Research Network)
Faculty library
Institute library
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Holding types University library

• Collection development coordination
• Print and e-versions (text books and curricula
  references)
• Master thesis and doctoral dissertations
  collection and special reference collection
• Support to all curricula at the university
  (undergraduate, graduate and doctoral study), and
  research projects at the university

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Holding types - Faculty/institute library

• Central information centre for specific field
• Holding type general and specific
• Develops and mantains central collection
• Develops and mantains master thesis and doctoral
  disertations collection
• Serial acqusition for all departments
• Informs central university libarary about most
  important and demanded titles for particular
  study groups including new study programmes
  (according to the Bologna declaration)

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Holding types Department library

• Holding type specific
• Holds special collection
• Compusory exam and textbook literature and
  specific collection according to the curricula or
  scientific field
• Special collection of journals and reference
  literature

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Consortium for e-resources acquisition

Accepts, verifies Expert committee lists
according to the available funds Coordinates
requests of all universities Approves final
acquisition proposal Signs licence agreements
with publishers.
Steering committee
Licencing processinformation flow - Selects
and negotiates with publishers, accepts the best
offers.
Negotiation committee
Collects, evaluates, selects and passes lists to
the Steering committee.
Expert committee
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Conclusion

• Integrated library software implementation
• Voyager acquisition module
• Central university library library system
  coordination
• Joint strategy of all 6(7) universities in
  Croatia (written document)