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Library networking. Alex Klugkist Groningen University Library (a.c.klugkist@ub.rug.nl). Scholarly information supply and libraries under reconstruction. The library finds itself in an environment of change: access to enormous quantities of information ICT developments
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Library networking Alex Klugkist Groningen University Library (a.c.klugkist@ub.rug.nl)
Scholarly information supply and libraries under reconstruction • The library finds itself in an environment of change: • access to enormous quantities of information • ICT developments • financial constraints • changing higher education and research • What will be the added value of libraries
The traditional and the digital library • Traditional collection development still important • Increasing importance of access to digital information • Don’t oppose the concepts of access and ownership
The library as a local network • Rallying-point of printed and digital information • Centre of expertise • Gateway to digital information • Advanced, modern study facilities
Library networking on a national level • Necessity of national library networks • PICA • Shared cataloguing and classing • PICA infrastructure the basis of the national information infrastructure in the Netherlands
Dutch Open Library Network • SURFnet, the technical Dutch research network • PICA Online Contents database • Dutch Union Catalogue • PICARTA • Dutch Academic Library
Organizational aspects of OBN • Special circuits • Registered and non-registered users • ILL-account • Document delivery • Charges • Clearinghouse system • Monographs
International Library Networking • Internet as a common global infrastructure • Establishing alliances with other library organizations • OCLC in Europe and worldwide
Linking • Linking of information will have an increasing importance • Linking to full-text • Public domain and licensed information • Development of scholarly networks
Cooperation with Indonesian partner university libraries • Distance between Indonesia and the Netherlands smaller because of ICT • So: let’s network and share experience and information