library.dkIntegration of

National and Local library services

ELAG Rome 18 April 2002Leif Andresen

Danish National Library Authority

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bibliotek.dk/library.dk

Objectives of bibliotek.dk:

Public access via web-interface Give the user the option to request Open quickly No new technical or political

requirements to the local libraries

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Background

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-send-requests-to as an integrated part of DanBib

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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 borrower selects the pick-up library The borrower doesn't need to know which

library the book belongs to The Inter Library Loan process is for the

libraries - not for the borrower The system suggest a source, but the pick-

up library select library to deliver The libraries have to procure the book in the

cheapest manner

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Requests from Nov 2000 to March 2002

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ILL-requests to public libraries

From public libraries: 2000: 703.243 2001: 843.323 + 19,9 % From research libraries: 2000: 145.538 2001: 219.627 + 50,9 % Total loans - 1,1 %

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Some consequences of bibliotek.dk

More requests for material located in research libraries

Requests for new books not yet purchased by the library

New users - some nerds have discovered the libraries

More effective use of the libraries

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Developments 2001 (highlights)

Adding links to Internet services developed by the libraries

Better match of different records of same edition of same title - 1.1 million duplicates deleted

Links to request screen in local library

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Integration with other systems

The requests to users library Perform ILL-request Move the user to request in local library Repeat a search in library.dk

Future development Check borrower-id before request Request of copy of article to supplier Request of book to supplier

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The requests to users library

The user library get access to their

users requests: receiving e-mail look it up in a database

Normally requests for their own holding are

received by e-mail and proposals for ILL-

request are looked it up in the database

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Perform ILL-request

Integrated in the DanBib request mail-box.

ILL-requests to other libraries are sent by: Email - unstructured - just text ISO-ILL carried by Z39.50

A copy of the request to requesting library: Email - unstructured - just text Email - structured for update in local ILL-

system

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Move the user to request in local library

Some libraries don't accept requests for their own books etc.

Then the user can’t request the title in library.dk

But can click on a link and is moved to the request screen in his local library system

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Repeat a search in library.dk

Many libraries offer their users a possibility in the OPAC:

Repeat the search in library.dk if the search in the local system gives zero hits

E.g.: Search for title: Coastal morphology

http://www.bibliotek.dk/linkme.zap?ccl=ti%3DCoastal+morphology

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Check borrower-id before request

The weakness of the current way to handle the user-initiated ILL-request is the manual check of borrower identity

Solution: automatic check of borrower before he got access to request in library.dk

Plan: to use NCIP to make the check

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Request of copy of article to supplier

For articles registered in the national bibliography is planned to open a “request a copy send to your letter box” service

The user pay with credit card The request is send to a library, who can

deliver copy for the specific journal This library send the copy by mail same

day - and is credited every month

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Request of book to supplier

When a user want a title, he will be presented for the possibility to buy it

Select the bottom and he is presented for an overview of suppliers

Select a supplier and he is moved to the suppliers web-page ready to buy the specific title

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Just try it:

Danish interface:

http://bibliotek.dk

English interface:

http://library.dk