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Repository Libraries: on history, need, and experiences

Repository Libraries: on history, need, and experiences. Kuopio 13.5.2004 Pentti Vattulainen. Thomas Mann.

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Repository Libraries: on history, need, and experiences

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  1. Repository Libraries: on history, need, and experiences Kuopio 13.5.2004Pentti Vattulainen

  2. Thomas Mann "to spend enormous amounts of money assembling book collections and then to make access to them only superficial, partial, incomplete, and haphazard is to throw money away rather than to use it prudently."

  3. Repository library • “The function of a repository is to ensure that books and other materials acquired by libraries in a country (or region) continue to be available for use even though local libraries may no longerbe able to retain them.” • UAP / IFLA 1982: National repository plans and programmes: a comparative study of existing plans and possible models

  4. Key factors in planning repositories • Concept of ownership • provision of buildings • management of repositories • relegation decisions • user needs

  5. Conclusion 1: savings • Avoidance of unnecessary duplication • Extending the range of material available • Cheap land / location • Cheap storage methods _____________ For individual libraries

  6. Conclusion 2: repository • Part of national library planning • All aspects of literature provision for national needs • Relation to interlending system • Concept of permanent availability • Relation to acquisition programmes • High-quality conservation

  7. Repositories in Europe • 1989: Finland, Norway • 1994: France • 1995: Estonia

  8. ”Solving collection problems through repository strategies” • Keynote: shared ownership, acquisition • Different repository models • Economic of storage • Functions of repositories • National libraries and repositories / second keynote • Availability of materials • Future of repositories

  9. Repository and storage library discussion group / IFLA • knowledge of the service potentials • forum to exchange ideas • discuss the concept of a repository • discuss the effects of digital environment • role in increasing availability of materials • develop a research programme in the context of UAP and CDNL

  10. DG 2 / Terminology • repository library • use by number of libraries • ownership: deduplication • important resource • what value does a repository add • the assembly of the deduplicated materials in one place • organisation and access to the materials, where ever they may be

  11. Fiesole Collection Development Retreat 2004 –Florence 18-20.3.2004 • networked, user-initiated, print repositories • contents delivered digitally • part of the concept of digital library

  12. Important web-sites Acquisition and Collection Development Section of IFLA http://www.ifla.org/VII/s14/sae.htm The Fiesole Collection Development Retreat http://digital.casalini.it/retreat/retreat_2004.html CAPM http://dkc.mse.jhu.edu/CAPM/

  13. Collections for Literacy and Development – Focus on Latin America • Cooperative Collection Development in the Latin American and Caribbean Virtual Health Library • The educational divide in Latin America: a case study • Collections of library for education and development: policy and practice in Colombia

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