poland libraries nla_sbp
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Prezentacja przygotowana przez Ewę Kobierską-Maciuszko przedstawiająca Stowarzyszenie Bibliotekarzy Polskich i polskie czytelnictwo podczas Zjazdu Bibliotekarzy Nigeryjskich.TRANSCRIPT
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Thanks His Excellency Dr Samuel Jimba
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11 June 2013 NIGERIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (NLA), Calabar
Libraries in Poland Two Decades of Modernization
Ewa Kobierska-MaciuszkoPolish Librarians’ Association
University of Warsaw Library
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Poland in Europe:
• 49o- 55o N and 14o- 25o E • 312,679 sq km• 38.5 million people • Parliamentary Republic• Member of EU since 2004
source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/
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Poland • Geographical diversity:
from Carpathian Mountains to Baltic seacoast
• Climate: moderate
• Etnic groups: Polish 93.72%, most of them declare themselves as Roman Catholics
• Official language: Polish • Biggest Cities:
– Warsaw (capital), 2.5 mln people
– Cracow (capital XI-XVI cent.)
• 16 provinces
• GDP (per capita): $13,540
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Famous people
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), astronomer who formulated a heliocentric model of the universe
• Frideric Chopin (1810-1849), composer and virtuoso pianist
• Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
• Lech Wałęsa (1949- ), „SOLIDARITY” trade union leader
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Very short book’s history
• 10-15 c. (Middle Ages) – manuscripts gathered by church libraries and Jagiellonian University (Cracow, 1364)
• 16 c. - 18 c. – prints deluge, Enlightment Age and first idea of National Library in Poland
• 19 c. – Poland participated between three power (Russia, Prussia and Austria), lost of governement, battle for keeping Polish language and culture
• 20 c. – very hard and long century:– I world war – independent Poland once again
– II world war – lost of 60% library collections
– 1945-1989 – communistic Poland (it was time for industry, not for libraries:-)
• after 1989 and 21 c. - new ICT and digital libraries
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Why so great change in 1989 ?
• Policy transformation from communism to western style democracy
• The end of ‚Cold War’ in Europe
• Economic transformation from ‚soviet style’ economy to free market
• Openess for new technologies
• Access to European Union (EU) in 2004
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Libraries in Poland
• 12,000 libraries of all types
• They store over 150 million volumes
• They serve about 8 million users a year
• They employ approximately 70,000 librarians and other staff
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Library policy in Poland
The libraries in Poland are currently governed by three ministries:
• the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage – matters relating to the National Library and public library network;
• the Ministry of Science and Higher Education – matters relating to academic and research libraries;
• the Ministry of Education – matters relating to school and pedagogical libraries.
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The National Library of Poland (est. 1928)
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The National Library of Poland:
• 9 mln vol.
• Legal deposit (two copies of each publication issued in Poland)
• Two research institutes: – National Bibliography Institute – Institute of Books and Reading
• Digital full-text library: POLONA (since 2006) >> EUROPEANA (www.europeana.eu/portal/ )
• Supervising 16 provincial public libraries
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Public Libraries [1]
• 16 provincial public libraries financed by regional governments
• Each regional library supervises a network of smaller provincial libraries in their region (district, urban and rural municipalities)
• 8,500 such local libraries in Poland • They record about 6.5 million visits a year, with
one reader borrowing 18.4 volumes a year on average.
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Public Libraries [2]
• In 2011 degree of computerization reached 91 % for urban libraries and 79 % for rural libraries.
• This was possible thanks to, among other sources, EU structural funds and in the last five years – support from the Bill&Mel. Gates Foundation
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School libraries
• 14,500 primary schools,
• 7,000 lower secondary schools
• 12,000 upper secondary schools
• By law all of these are obliged to keep a school library as an integral part of their facilities
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Pedagogical libraries for teachers
• The network of school libraries actively cooperates with pedagogical libraries, which are designed to support the training and professional development of teachers at all levels.
• Pedagogical libraries are located in provincial capitals and additionally have branch libraries in small towns.
• In 2011 there were 350 pedagogical libraries in Poland.
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Academic and research libraries
• ~ 370 academic institutions various type126 public18 universities (classic)
• ~ 1,9 mln students (360% increase through last 20 years)
• ~ 96,7 thousands academic staf 29,8 thousands university academic staff
• Library budget as a part of University budget: 4,14%
• Library staff as a part of University staff: 4.97%Certified librarians: 74,15%
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European environment
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities: http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
• IFLA's three pillars & World Summit on the Information Society Declaration of Principles: http://www.ifla.org/III/ThreePillars-compact.pdf
• LIBER: http://www.libereurope.eu/
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OPAC – library catalogues on-line in Polish acad.&research libraries
• Access to catalogues via internet:
100%
• Library collection in OPAC as a % of all holdings:
54,49%
• Circulation on-line (booking, reservation etc.):
90,71%
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University of Warsaw Library (BUW)
- the ‘old’ and ‘new’ building
1895 1999
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University of Warsaw Library and Information System – basic
information
• The main library (BUW) and 47 faculty libraries • 6 mln printed volumes (BUW + faculty libr.)
• 1.8 mln volumes circulated per year(BUW + faculty libr.)
• 1.2 mln visits per year (BUW)• Integrated library system VTLS/Virtua (BUW & 33
faculty libr.)• E-resources accessible via internet for students &
acad. staff
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New Library Building
• The new edifice of the Warsaw University Library is located on the Vistula river bank within a ten minute walk from the old Campus; this part of the city is meant by the municipal authorities to become a new university district in future, as the direction to the river is the only possibility for the expansion of the University
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All routes meet in the central point, i.e. the main entrance to the library under an open book with the Latin inscription
”HINC OMNIA”
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Basic Information
• Investor Warsaw University Foundation
• General design prof.. Marek Budzyński, Zbigniew Badowski
• General contractor PORR International GmbH• Total surface 61,000 square meters• Technical space 12,300 square meters• Library surface 41,510 square meters• Cubic content 260,300 cubic meters• Overground levels 4• Underground levels 2
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Basic Information... continued
• Storage capacity 4,000,000 volume• Readers seats 1,000• Library staff 275 • Computer network Windows 2003/XP/NT, LINUX
• Library system VTLS/VIRTUA• Library system server cluster server DELL_INTEL x86
(4*CPU, 128 GB RAM, 2*FC)
• Annual budget [2012] ~5,000,000 EUR
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Level Zero: • the entrance complex with
a restaurant, an exhibition hall and cloakrooms;
• closed compact storage (45.000 running metres of shelves, 1.5 million of volumes );
• staff entrance with the central dispatcher’s office supervising all technical installations;
• conservation and preservation labs;
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Level Zero: close compact storage
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Level 1: The main catalogue hall
with the main information stand;
Open stacks area for the following branches according to the Library of Congress Classification:
1) Philosophy, Psychology, Education, Religion
2) History 3) Linguistics, Literature 4)Geography, Mathematics,
Natural and applied Sciences Circulation desk
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The main catalogue and information hall
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Główny hol katalogowo-informacyjny
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Level 2
• main reading room (A-Z classes – general reference collection)
• open stacks area for the following branches according Library of Congress Classification:1) Social Sciences.
Anthropology2) Law. Political Science3) Music. Architecture. Fine
Arts
• open stacks area for current periodicals
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Main reading room (general reference collection)
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Open access area
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Additional readers seats in the ranges
of stocks
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Current journals area
and our youngest
visitor
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Level 3
• special collection area with a separate storeroom for each collection and small reading rooms
• stacks area for the 19th century collection
• single studies on the mezzanine over the main reading room
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Computers in the Library
• Reader’s interface of VTLS/Virtua: on-line catalogue, login, circulation;
• Access to National Union Catalogue: www.nukat.edu.pl • Access to e-resources subscribed by the University;• Access to www (on selected computers) • Microsoft Office, e-mail (on selected computers)• Wi-fi at public area
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History…last 20 years
• 90. – local OPACs development • After 2000:
– E-journals and database subscription– NUKAT: the Union Catalog of Polish Research
Libraries
• After 2005 r. – digital libraries (historical collection)
• Next step: fulltext academic repositoria with open access to current research and papers
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After 2000 – NUKAT Union Catalog of Polish Research Libraries
• 80 academic and research libraries including all university ones
• More than 1 mln biliographic records with item records and their location in libraries
• NUKAT Center – a department in University of Warsaw Library for managment, coordnation and supervising the work about 800 librarians all over Poland
• Common funds: A. Mellon Foundation, Ministry of Science special donation, BUW budget
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pobrania
wypożyczenia
University of Warsaw Libraries. E-resources and printed books (loading and borrowing)
2003-2012
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Library and Information Science Education
• Staff training for librarians takes place on professional and academic levels and meets the standards and procedures of the Bologna Process: http://www.ehea.info/.
• LIS Institutes at 8 universities • Librarians’ mobility has increased with the opening of
European borders. Librarians participate in life-long training available under various EU programmes with the participation of libraries from other European countries.
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Polish Librarians Association - PLA (Stowarzyszenie Bibliotekarzy Polskich – SBP)
www.sbp.pl
• Est. 1917
• The biggest self-governed non-profit organization at the book, library & information brand
• Gates’ Foundation partner with Global Libraries Program
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Mission
Acting for librarianship development, building professional identity, community integration and creating positive social image of our profession.
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Strategy 2013-2021: strategic objectives
• Getting real impact for library policy-making and library practice in Poland
• Being partner for other gov. and non-gov. organizations and institutions with building the information society
• Increasing of librarian’s profession social prestige
• Increasing role of PLA for LIS community integration
• Increasing access to all forms of modern education for every librarian
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References• Books in Poland : past and present / by Barbara Bieńkowska and Halina Chamerska ; ed. and
transl. by Wojciech Zalewski and Eleanor R. Payne. Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz, 1990
• Library automation in transitional societies: lessons from Eastern Europe/ ed. By Andrew Lass&Richard E. Quandt. New York; Oxford 2000
• Dżurak, E., Kasprzyk, A. Metamorphosis of academic libraries in post-communist Poland: focusing on access. “Journal of Academic Librarianship”, 2010, Vol. 36 Issue 4, s. 354-358
• All the figures in this presentation after: http://www.stat.gov.pl/gus/index_ENG_HTML.htm; http://ssk2.bu.amu.edu.pl/standaryzacja/; http://biurose.sejm.gov.pl/teksty_pdf_01/i-797.pdf
• The success story of Digital Libraries in Poland [e-document] : from a software to a national federated system : case study / Matylda Filas, Karolina Mnich, Zuzanna Wiorogórska. Warszawa : Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, 2010: http://ebuw.uw.edu.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=16094
• Public Libraries in figures, 2010: http://www.bn.org.pl/download/document/1314087448.pdf
• Polish Libraries Today: http://www.bn.org.pl/wydawnictwa/czasopisma-bn/polish-libraries-today
• EBIB - Electronic Library – portal for librarians: http://www.nowyebib.info/en/bulletin-ebib-abstracts
• The Act of Sept. 7, 1991 on the System of Education: http://bip.men.gov.pl/men_bip/akty_pr_1997-2006/ustawa_o_systemie_%20oswiaty.pdf