Some economic calculations on collection access - print

Kuopio 13.5.2004Pentti Vattulainen

Finnish University Libraries - vision (Structural Development of University Libraries, MinEdu 2000)

Finnish University Library (collaborative level)University Libraries – National Library – Repository Library – CSC

Bibliografic data; material resources; EDB-services; development

USERS

University Libraries (local level)

Performance of ILL in Nordic Academic libraries (2000)

Incoming ILL requests

Home loans %

DK 657.085 4.803.839 13,7%

FI 172.061 9.794.607 1,8%

IS 9.614 163.839 5,9%

NO 485.074 3.806.898 13,7%

SE 659.533 6.469.739 10,2%

Nordic 2.024.997 25.038.921 8,1%

National Repository Library

• founded 1989 (also other countries)

• functions: – receive material from libraries– store– keep available

• Ministry of Education, Research Unit

• serves all libraries free of charge

To receive

• transfers 4-7 km / year• 3/2004: 83 km material has been received• monographs 33 km• serials 45,5 km• mainly from Finnish research libraries

(86%)– incl. doctoral dissertations (4 km)

To store

• cost-effective storage: 15,68 shelf meters / sq meter (standard 13,81)

• storage development– Norway – CAPM / Johns Hopkins University

Keep available

• 2,5 million volumes of monographs and serials (49,5 shelf km)

• 90 % transferred from research libraries

• delivery free of charge

• data in the Union Catalogue “Linda” of university libraries (Voyager-software)

Keep available

• 14,8% of the collections of university libraries (2002)

• 20,2% of the serial collections of university libraries (2002)

• deduplication 49,5/83 shelf km

• Norway: legal deposit interlending copy

Use of material

• 63.000 requests

• loans: 50 % public libraries

• copies: 90 % to research libraries

• fill rate 98%

Costs for the NRL

• 1,35 million euros

• + investments

• 6,8 % of the acquisition budgets of university libraries

• 1,6 % of total budget of university libraries

Savings

• transferred material: 82.700 shelve meters

• open collection 3,61 shm / m2

• local storage 7,11 shm / m2

• rent of library space / square metre e.g. in Kuopio University Library is 9.47 €

• -> 2,5 mill. and 1,3 mill. euros / year

• -> university libraries 1,3 mill. euros

Future

• Evaluation of NRL 2004-2005– International panel / experts– national evaluation team