Library co-operation in Belgium

1. Library co-operation in Belgium Julien Van Borm Director UIA-Library University of Antwerp

2. Belgium The country and its structures Belnet

3. Belgium

4. Belgium The country and its structures Population: 10.350.000 From an centralised to a confederate state 1830 a centralised state By 2003 a federal state Regions Flanders Brussels Wallonia Cultural communities Flemish (60%) French (40%) German (60.000)

5. Belgium The country and its structures

6. Belgium Research network Network of research institutes: Belnet

7. Library co-operation in general Typology of library co-operation. M. Line (UK).Good in se? E. Häkli (FI). Front office and back office

8. Library Co-operation Typology Co-operation activities Co-operative acquisition schemes Nowadays used for the co-operative licence schemes for e-information Idea of cross access (Elsevier ScienceDirect) Co-operative retention (depots) Union catalogues Interlending

9. Library Co-operation in general M. Line Once seen as Good in se Question marks (M. Line) Too much concentration on the means Not enough thinking about the ends that co-operation is to serve No clear definition of the purposes No look for alternatives Lack of clarity Mostly seen from a national viewpoint Not enough cost conscious

10. Library Co-operation in general E. Häkli Front office All activities directly related to the user User in the library Distant user This is the core business of every library Back office The local library is to free itself from the back office tasks Cataloguing Library automation systems Acquisition/organisation of e-information

11. Library Co-operation E. Häkli A national centre should perform these tasks Equipment Know how Funding Ministries Universities Polytechnics Research institutes

12. Library Co-operation E. Häkli Management Co-operation agreement Contract Board Staff Cost accounting and billing Control by Libraries and universities End users

13. Library co-operation in Belgium Public libraries Flanders Legislation (1978 and 2002) A library in each community Library co-operation Neighbouring cities and villages Flemish level (VCOB) Over 300 public libraries Many new library buildings French speaking community Less well organised and developed public library structure

14. Library co-operation in Belgium Research libraries Conference of university libraries and the Royal library (COBIRA) Union catalogues Acquisitions ILL French speaking Belgium BICfB: Consortium for e-info Flanders VOWB (Flemish Research Libraries Council) General co-operation Elektron: Consortium for e-info Two library networks

15. Library co-operation in Belgium Products of the co-operation between research libraries Union catalogues ILL E-info

16. Library co-operation in Belgium Union catalogues Antilope: periodicals Physical union catalogue On line Updated on a regular basis Manually Electronically

17. Library co-operation in Belgium Union catalogues CCB Union catalogue of monographs Irregular publication Download from local catalogues SGML format CCB DDT On CD ROM

18. Library co-operation in Belgium Union catalogues UniCat: A virtual union catalogue Technology chosen: OAI OAI (Open Archives Initiative Standard) Metadata structures Harvesting

19. Library co-operation in Belgium Interlending and document supply Rules Loans Photocopies Uniform tariffs Internal External Impala: the Belgian electronic document ordering system Virlib: the Belgian electronic document supply system

20. Library co-operation in Belgium Impala: the Belgian electronic document ordering system Use End user driven Library controlled Linked with databases Antilope CBB ERL databases ….

21. Library co-operation in Belgium Impala: the Belgian electronic document ordering system General information on IMPALA Making a request Sending of the request Follow up of the request Clearing house Management information Number of (satisfied) requests Main suppliers Response times Costs List of frequently asked titles

22. Library co-operation in Belgium Virlib: the Belgian electronic document supply system Scanning Ariel Appending the scan to the Impala request Virlib servers Virlib users Delivery on the desk of the user Delivery via the library

23. Library co-operation in Belgium The e-library BICfB (French Belgium) Consortium for e-information Secondary databases Primary information: full text journals Created by the French speaking universities Run by the libraries of these universities Funding The regional government The universities

24. Library co-operation in Belgium The e-library Elektron (Flanders) Consortium for e-information Secondary sources Primary information: full text Creation VOWB (Flemish Research Libraries Council) Flemish Ministry for Research Planning Ministry of Education Funding 2.000.000 EUR/year from government Extra funding from universities

25. Library co-operation in Belgium The library network consortia Libis Net (K.U. Leuven) Anet (University of Antwerp)

26. Libis Net

27. Libis Net Mission To support the participating libraries in their library management and in the services they provide for their patrons. Partners University libraries Polytechnics Parliament libraries Other research libraries

28. Anet

29. Anet Mission Support to the participating librariesand their users Library automation E-library Partners University libraries Polytechnic libraries Public library of Antwerp (ANUBIS) Other research libraries