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Collection building for special collections

Collection building for special collections. Between Cultural Management and Research: Special collections in the 21 st Century, Weimar Chantal Keijsper, Head Information & Collections Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands (www.kb.nl) 23 November 2005. Contents. Organisation

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Collection building for special collections

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  1. Collection building for special collections Between Cultural Management and Research: Special collections in the 21st Century, Weimar Chantal Keijsper, Head Information & Collections Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands (www.kb.nl) 23 November 2005

  2. Collection building for special collections Contents • Organisation • National tasks • Collections • The special collections • collection plan 2006-2009 • collection building: printed and written materials • collection building: virtual national collection

  3. Collection building for special collections Size Budget 36 M Euro Permanent staff 263 fte Building 75,000 sqm Collection items 3,3 million = more than 67 km of library materials Digital collection items 3 million

  4. Collection building for special collections Mission statement The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National library of the Netherlands, gives everyone access to the knowledge and culture of the past and the present by providing high-quality services for research, study and cultural experience.

  5. Collection building for special collections National responsibilities • National programmes and projects • Research & development • (Inter)national cooperation

  6. Collection building for special collections Services Performance indicators 2004 • Visits to the library 88.800 • Visits to the website 13.243.000 • (Interlibrary) loans 234.700 • Providing information 53.600 • Exhibitions with KB loans (domestic/foreign) 49 / 7 • Customer satisfaction (scale of 1-10) 7,9

  7. Collection building for special collections Collection • International E-deposit • National deposit of printed works • Academic collection • Special collections

  8. Collection building for special collections Collection: national position • One of the four largest humanities libraries • Distinguishs by: • focus on Dutch material • large source collections (newspapers, journals etc.) • besides academic materials also popular culture • ephemeral materials in National Deposit: ‘last resort’

  9. Collection building for special collections Collection: figures Performance indicators 2004 • Accretion of books 53.470 • Accretation in issues of periodicals 113.630 • Accretation in electronic publications 1.170.320 • Accretation of special collections 347 • manuscripts = 21 (items and collections) • printed books = 269 • papercollection = 36 • Bookbindings = 21

  10. Collection building for special collections Collection plan 2006-2009 • Coherent vision for the KB-collection as a whole: the academic collection, the national deposit, the digital collection and the special collections are approached integrally. • New criteria for collection building • Handle for budgetting, determination required knowledge and specialists • Tool to set up priorities for activities in the fields of expert services, restoration and conservation, digitization, presentation, cooperation

  11. Collection building for special collections New collection division • Dutch-collection • National Deposit • Academic collection, focus on Dutch history, language and culture • Accent collections: journals, children books, novels etc. • Special collections • Manuscripts, printed books, special materials, history of the book • Accent collections: incunabula, bookbindings, papercollection, pamphlets etc. • Reference collection • International E-deposit

  12. Collection building for special collections Collection building for special collections: printed and written material • Budget: 155.000 Euro • Special collections: 100.000 Euro • Book and Library Science: 35.000 Euro • Journals and electronic materials: 20.000 Euro • New criteria Collection plan 2006-2009 • Agreements with other cultural heritage institutions

  13. Collection building for special collections Collection building for special collections: virtual (national) collection • National programmes coordinated by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek • Metamorfoze • Het Geheugen van Nederland / Memory of the Netherlands • National projects • Illuminated manuscripts • Parchment to Portal • Collection Willem Witsen • Children books • Project plans • National infrastructure for the special collections • Dutch newspapers

  14. Collection building for special collections National programmes: Metamorfoze • Preservation of cultural heritage (1840-1950) on a large scale • Library collections • Financed by the government (70% per project) and participants (30%) • Preservation by microfilming, de-acidification, small restoration, packing and storage • 65.000 books, 200 metres newspapers, 1.750 volumes of magazines, 179 collections • Developments: archives, digitisation, cooperation in research • www.metamorfoze.nl

  15. Collection building for special collections National programmes: Geheugen van Nederland / Memory of the Netherlands • Digitisation of cultural heritage on a large scale • Participants: libraries, museums, archives, … • Financed by the government (70% per project) and participants (30%) • Free use for the general public, (secondary) education and research • 800.000 images, 250 hours video, 100 hours audio • Developments: improvement of metadata, more text • www.geheugenvannederland.nl

  16. Collection building for special collections National projects : 1 • Illuminated manuscripts : finished • 11.000 unique images coming from 400 medieval illuminated manuscripts from the KB and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague. • For researchers and general public • www.kb.nl/webexpo/manuscripts/html • Parchment to portal : 2005-2007 • Financed by NWO • Portal and catalogue of the medieval manuscripts in The Netherlands (7000) • For researchers

  17. Collection building for special collections National projects: 2 • Willem Witsen project : 2005-2007 • Conservation, digitisation and presentation of the scattered lettres (2000), photographs (7000) and other material of Willem Witsen • Co-operation between 7 institutions • For researchers and general public • Presentation: different websites • Children books: 2004-2006 • Conservation, digitisation and preservation • 4 institutions • For researchers and general public • Presentation: Memory of the Netherlands

  18. Collection building for special collections New plans • ‘Libratory’ for the humaniora • A national infrastructure for the special collections • Initiative by KB and university libraries of Amsterdam and Leiden • Metadata, digital images and full text / full content • Funding? • Dutch newspapers • National programme for digitization of the Dutch newspapers • Application made

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