Estonian overview Anneli SeppDatabase Manager of ELNET Consortium

 

The non-profit organisation Estonian Libraries

Network Consortium was founded on April 4, 1996

The main areas of activity are: management and development of the integrated

library system Millennium and the shared e-catalog ESTER

coordination of the acquisition of electronic publications between the member libraries of the Consortium

initiation and coordination of various cooperation projects

2 systems - TALIN and TARTU

1997/1998 – implementation 13 member libraries WebPAC Pro in Estonian and English

Core Millennium modules: Cataloging, Circulation, Acquisition, Serials, Administration

Server - Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Software version - Rel. 2007

TALLINN

Academic Library of Tallinn University Estonian Academy of Arts Library Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre

Library Estonian Art Museum Library National Library of Estonia Repository Library of Estonia Tallinn Central Library Tallinn University of Technology Library

TARTU

Estonian Literary Museum Archival Library Estonian National Museum Library Library of Estonian University of Life

Sciences Tartu Public Library University of Tartu Library

Different library types

Public libraries University libraries Museum libraries Repository library National library

Size of DatabasesUser licences 314 + 183 + unlimited web

TALLINN (8) 1 329 115 bibliographic

records 3 980 224 item records 236 473 patron records 58 920 authority records 135 course records

TARTU (5) 1 052 659 bibliographic

records 2 651 546 item records 116 532 patron records 55 218 authority records 28 course records

Additional III products

Deposit Collection(summer 2008)

Patron Online Registration(winter 2008/2009)

Local Reference Database(autumn 2008)

Working groups in ELNET

Articles Cataloguing and Authority records Digitalisation Indexing and Subject headings Periodicals Services Database management

Intranet of ELNET

Summer and winter seminars

Summer seminar (Estonian IUG) in 2 parts – has been organized already 7 years.

First part is overview of news and most interesting papers of IUG meeting in USA by these colleges, who have attended the meeting. First part takes place every year in the different library.

Second part takes place out of town, it’s 2 days seminar for discussions and negotiations of details and timetable for implementing new features in our system.

Winter seminars

Tradition of winter seminars began in 1997, after Implementation of Innopac system into 2 different servers. There was (and is) need for more close contacts between different libraries for working together more smoothly.

Estonian IUG 2008

What is new 2006-2008 More libraries My ESTER to the OPAC first page My lists My ratings Forgot your Pin? Permanent URL for this record  EOD links More links to music, full text, video Tallinn Central Library Kids catalog New scope for online resources Each scope has special design Google Analytics Raports

Google StatisticsVisitors Overview http://www.google.com/analytics/

2,495 Visits 1,806 Absolute Unique Visitors 26,190 Pageviews 10.50 Average Pageviews 00:10:23 Time on Site

Next steps... Online Patron

Registration Local Reference

database

OPAC: Book covers EOD service to Tartu

ESTER Patron comments More links to online

resources

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