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Some economic calculations on collection access - print

An overview of the economic aspects of collection access in Finnish University Libraries, including material resources, EDB services, and the performance of interlibrary loan services. The study examines the costs, storage solutions, and usage patterns for maintaining and providing access to library collections.

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Some economic calculations on collection access - print

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  1. Some economic calculations on collection access - print Kuopio 13.5.2004Pentti Vattulainen

  2. 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)

  3. Performance of ILL in Nordic Academic libraries (2000)

  4. 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

  5. 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)

  6. To store • cost-effective storage: 15,68 shelf meters / sq meter (standard 13,81) • storage development • Norway • CAPM / Johns Hopkins University

  7. 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)

  8. 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

  9. Use of material • 63.000 requests • loans: 50 % public libraries • copies: 90 % to research libraries • fill rate 98%

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Future • Evaluation of NRL 2004-2005 • International panel / experts • national evaluation team

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