electric connections 2004 national library of scotland strategy | e-services | aspirations |...

Electric Connections 2004

National Library of Scotland

Strategy | E-Services | Aspirations | Happening now | Coming soon


• We will develop the existing website into a Virtual National Library of Scotland– Digitisation– Online exhibitions– Remote access– Collaboration

• http://www.nls.uk/professional/policy/strategy.html




• Scottish Executive Cultural Review (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Arts-Culture)– “The Commission will be asked to explore the notion of

cultural rights for the Scottish citizen…and define how these might be translated into a scheme of entitlements”

• Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2003.htm– “as Scotland’s only Legal Deposit Library, NLS will be

making every effort to collect e-material relevant to the recorded knowledge and heritage of Scotland.”





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D ig itisa tion O fficer S ys tem s L ib ra r ian

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– Digitisation– Digital preservation– Library systems

– Web content/editing– Web development– Intranet


• Services for remote users– Online registration– Remote access to secure resources

• Online payment system– High resolution images

• Federated searching across all resources• Increased digital content (from 30 000 to 0.5 million

by 2009)




• Digital preservation– Handheld materials – Online materials (e-journals, e-books etc.)– Websites

• UKWAC http://www.webarchive.org.uk/

– Legal Deposit Libraries Committee• Digital infrastructure; metadata; preservation; collection

management; shared secure access

• Interoperability– Metadata, standards and protocols




• Staff launch of ENCompass– Federated search– Digital image delivery– OpenURL resolution– Limited service

• Cross-searching work ongoing• Load testing




• Web-mapping– Geographic interface to collection– ARCIMS, ColdFusion and OS data– Partnership with Map Library– http://geo.nls.uk/




• Website– The Word on the Street

• Google optimised• Positive feedback

– Accessibility work• CSS text-based navigation replacing graphics

– Market research• Interviews; usability labs; online questionnaire; stats

analysis




• Planned for 2004-2005– Paper-based remote registration– Pilot e-payment system– Remote access to online resources– Pilot digital preservation project– Digitisation projects

• ‘Scots Abroad’• Early map treasures• Early Scottish photographs• Genealogical, geographical and historical materials




• Questions?

Contact: [email protected]



electric connections 2004 national library of scotland strategy | e-services | aspirations |...

Documents

electric connections

map library http

legal deposit library

heritage of scotland

ematerial relevant

digital content

websites ukwac http

collection arcims