Öffentliches WissenPublic Libraries in the times of the

Internet

Christine-Dorothea SauerZentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin

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Some figures Public Libraries in Berlin• Berlin districts

Public Libraries - 173• Inhabitants Berlin 3.4 million

Year 2000• Visitors 7.0 million • Circulations 17.6 million• Holdings 5.8 million • Book/media funds 5.6 million

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Zentral- und Landesbibliothek BerlinYear 2000

• Visitors 1.6 million

• Circulations 3.1 million

• Holdings 2.3 million

• Book/media funds 3.7 million

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Budget Shortcuts

• Ansatz im Haushaltsplan einiger Berliner Bezirke für den Medienerwerb der bezirklichen Bibliotheken 2002: Null Euro

• ZLB Ansatz Haushaltsplan 2001 gegenüber 2000: Reduzierung um 3.9 Millionen DM (Ausgleich: 1.5 Millionen)

• 2002 ?

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Public Libraries

• „Open library“

• Committed to the constitutional priniple of the freedom of information

• Access to information for everybody

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Library – basic business

• Collecting different materials• indexing• sorting• Useroriented presentation

• Libraries administer objects – do not own, do not have control over the content

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Library

• Real place

• Virtual place

• Public space

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Library – real place

• Constrained by physicalelements – building, staff, holdings

• Ownership

• Private consultancy

• Meeting point

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Library – virtual place

• Less ownership

• Access to information instead of ownwership

• Information service provider

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Library – public space

• Social participation• No obligation to buy• Meeting point• Internet: counterbalance to privatization of the

information market • „Virtual“ public space -

balance/compensation between "information poor" and "information rich"?

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„Hybrid Library“

Forms

• Traditional Library

• Intranet-based Library

• Internet-based Library

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„Hybrid Library“

• Ownership: all formats print – digital

• Access:offline - online

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„Hybrid Library“ in practice

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Internet-based Library

• Being present on the internet

• Offering holdings virtually

• Offering virtual holdings

• Serving a virtual patron in a virtual world

• Offering and using virtual services

• Using a virtual staff

• In time - On demand - Online

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Internet-based Library –Going Where the Users Are

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Internet-based Library

• Library without walls

• „Virtual“ public space - balance / compensation between "information poor" and "information rich"?

• Customers ?

• Costs – funding body

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Intranet-based Library

• Online - access to private hosts from the library

• Offline-access to local databases in the library intranet (CD-ROM collection ...)

• Catalogues

• Reference service

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Real, „traditional“ library

• Place, from where customers can use Internet and Intranet

• Acccess to real services: reference, lending ...

• Meeting point

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„Hybrid Library“ - Marketing• Libraries administer objects

• While we may posses the physical objects, we do not own, do not have control over the content

• We are unable to create capital directly from them

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„Hybrid Library“ - Marketing• Supply and demand

• Costumers

• Competitors

• Gap in the information market?

• Fee or free ?

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„Hybrid Library“ - MarketingStrengths• Professionalism• Media- and Informationcompetence• Private consultancy

online, on demand, in time

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Management of change

Cooperation

• Among librariesresource sharing (virtual reference teams)

• External partners

• Consortia

• Preserve the public space in the information market?

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Union Catalogues

• VOEBB http://www.voebb.de

• KOBV http://www.kobv.de/

• GBV http://www.brzn.de/

• OCLC http://www.oclc.org/

• PICARTA http://www.pica.nl/du/

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Compensating: information poor – information rich• Improve information- and

mediacompetence

• Private consultancy and assistance

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Information- and Mediacompetence

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Information- and Mediacompetence

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Public Libraries at the start ...

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Management of change

• Old strengths – new environment

• New services

• The most important element in the emerging library is the human interface

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Voraussetzung/ Requirements

• Sufficient funding• Ausreichende materielle Austattung• Nicht die Attraktivität, Medienvielfalt und

Leistungsfähigkeit der Bibliotheken durch einen finanziellen Kahlschlag gefährden

• Voraussetzungen für den Übergang in die online Welt schaffen und erhalten

• Funktionierende online Verbindungen in alle Welt, aber keine Medien in den Bibliotheken?

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Thank you very much for your attention

Vielen Dank für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit

Christine-D. Sauer

sauer@zlb.de

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