VerdensbiblioteketDigital library services for Immigrant

Communities

Presentation NORDILL Oktober 2018Marit VestlieProject ManagerNational Library Norway

Focus in this presentation

• Background for the project

• What is the goal

• Presentation of the platform

• Future – Next step

Background for the project

The starting point for the project is the existing cooperation between the national libraries in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and between the national services for library services to immigrant populations.

The Best Practice Network

The Best practice Network

• 2009 Best practice - network established

• 2015 Application Nordic Council ofMinisters

• 2016-18 Project 3 mill DDK

Verdensbiblioteket. dk

• The services will build on the digital service Verdensbiblioteket.dk - a digital platform for the dissemination of film and music developed by The State Library, Denmark (The Royal Library – Denmark)

Digital books in foreign languages

• To improve the digital library services to linguistic minorities in the Nordic countries

• E-books

What is the purpose

• Immigration

• Integration

• Literacy

• Digital skills

The starting point:

Participants

• The Royal Danish Library

• The National Library of Sweden

• The National Library of Norway

• Cooperations:

• The Danish Library Centre for Intergation(KB – DK)

• The International Library – Stockholm (ssb)

• Malmø Public Library

• Multicultural Library – NB - Norway

Verdensbiblioteket

• New: digital books

• Languages:

– Tiginya

– Somali

– Arabic

– Persian/Farsi

– Croatian/Serbic

Content

• E-books

• Sound-books

• Childrens literature

• Fiction

• Non fiction

How we do it

• Cooperation

• Decisions

• Selection of materials

• Legal copyright clearances

• Metadata standards

• Platform - Three versions

• Danish – Swedish - Norwegian

What have been the challenges?

• Procurement:

• language

• public procurement

• costs

• files- formats

• metadata

• platform

Metadata in excel:

The platform

Fiction e-books

Sound books

Next step – future plans

• Transition from project to operation

• Develop a permanent organization

• Economy

• More languages

• Cooperation

• Finland and Iceland

Links

• Sverige: https://verdensbiblioteket---se---master-7rqtwti-dl3swnu7q7xx2.eu.platform.sh/Norge: https://verdensbiblioteket---no---master-7rqtwti-dl3swnu7q7xx2.eu.platform.sh/Danmark: https://www.verdensbiblioteket.dk/