Resource Sharing Development and Challenge in Academic Libraries: the Case Study of CALIS

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Resource Sharing Development and Challenge in
Academic Libraries the Case Study of CALIS

• Yao XiaoXia
• CALIS Administrative Center,PUL
• 2010.10.21,shanghai

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Outline

1. About CALIS
2. Achievements of CALIS
3. Challenge and Future development
4. summary

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I?About CALIS
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About CALIS

• China Academic Library Information System
• One of the public service systems for higher
  education (the others are CERNET, CERS,CADAL)
• Funded by Chinese government
• Under the leadership of Ministry of Education
• Operated from 1998
• A nation-wide academic library consortium

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Goal

• To promote, maintain and improve resource sharing
• To organize Chinese academic libraries to build
  China Academic Digital Library (eduChina)
• To provide information services at a high
  academic level for teaching and researches
• To extend cooperation internationally

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Development periods

• Phase I, 1998-2000
• China Academic Library Information System
  (CALIS)
• Phase II, 2001-2005
• China Academic Digital Library Information
  System (CADLIS) CALIS and CADAL( One million
  book plan between China and USA)
• Phase III, 2007-2011
• Under construction

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II?Achievements
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Achievements of CALIS

• One set of Standard and Criteria
• Two pieces of mechanisms
• Three tiered Service network
• Four series of databases
• Five series of systems
• Six kind of services

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1? A set of Standard and Criteria
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• resource digitalization
• digital preservation
• resource management and administration
• digital object description and categorization

• series of metadata and their interoperability
• architecture of digital libraries and their
  interoperability
• service patterns and quality control

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2? Two pieces of mechanisms
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• mechanism on Resource sharing
• Policy Centralize the funding to support the
  most important things
• Core
• Literature sharing
• Human sharing
• Technology sharing

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• Mechanism on research and development
• Organized a research and development team
• Cooperate with Peking University information
  technology center, IT companies
• Develop different kinds of application systems
• Provide technical support to member libraries

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3? Three tired service network
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CALIS Service Network
National Administration Center
National Centers
Four National Resource Centers (Humanities
Social Science, Engineering, Medicine,
Agriculture)
Regional Centers
7 Regional Centers and 1 Defense information
Center
21 Provincial Centers
Academic Libraries
22 Digital Library testbeds
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The distribution of CALIS service centers
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CALIS National Administrative Center (NAC)

• location Peking University
• responsibility
• Constructing information resource and service
  architectures
• Providing policy,advisory and support
• Overseeing sub_projects,
• Handing routing management needs

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4? Four series of databases
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• Online Union Catalog database
• CALIS current content of foreign journals
• Thesis and dissertation database
• Special collection databases

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• 3 millions metadata of bibliography books
• More than 33 million holdings
• Participant members more than 600

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• 36 millions metadata of titles from 34,000
  western journals
• holding data from about 500 academic, public
  institutional libraries
• Linking with 64 imported databases

CALIS Current Contents of Western Journals
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• Abstract 200,000
• Full-text 100,000

Self-built resources Thesis and Dissertations
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• 64 Special collection databases
• 4M records
• 1.7M full text

Self-built resources digital special collections
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• Metadata Titles108,000
• Full text 20,000

Self-built resources e-reserves fulltext
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5? Five series of systems
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• Basic principle decentralized archiving,
  decentralized processing and centralized
  utilization
• Creating advanced technical support platform
• CALIS digital object processing systems
• CALIS digital object administration systems
• CALIS application systems and facilities
• CALIS digital library portal construction systems
• CALIS supporting systems

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Architecture of technical platform
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6. Six Kinds of Services
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Six Kinds of Services

• Union Catalogue
• Interlibrary loan and document delivery
• Resource integration and providing
• Virtual reference
• Digital library solution
• Training and consultation

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www.calis.edu.cn
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Training

• CALIS resource and service promotion
• Imported database user training
• Cataloguer training
• ILL and DDS service training
• Application system training
• Reference librarians training
• Librarian literacy training (under consideration)

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Cooperated database purchasing
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Consortia Organized

• 554 times of consortia (2009)

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Benefit analysis

• Expending Library resources
• Saving money
• Lowering the price, Optimizing the price model
• Accelerating the development of medium /small
  libraries
• Help Publishers /database vendors improved
  service quality
• Resource integration, Providing special line
  /mirror site, setting up Chinese office
  /representative, Usage report

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The Foundation of DRAA
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III?Challenge and Future Development
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• Sustainability
• The relationship between Project development and
  Service providing
• Service level
• Provide service to all the academic libraries
• Provide service to libraries and its end users

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• Resource integration
• Collect all the bibliographic records of member
  libraries
• Integration with most of the bibliographic system
  in China
• Service integration
• Improve Service quality and capability
• integrate services of all the academic libraries
• try informative services (science and technology
  project assitance)

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• System upgrading
• SaaS Software as a service
• Evaluation
• Resource and service
• Accelerating members development
• International Cooperation
• Expending Resource sharing
• Learn more successful experience

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IV?Summary
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• The Role CALIS played
• Leader Establishing Standard and Criteria
• Organizer and Coordinator Resource development,
  training, ILL and DD, reference consulting
• Vender and Provider digital library solutions
• Interface cooperated database purchasing

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• The impact of CALIS to academic libraries
• increasing the working efficiency in libraries
• Helping its members to offer better service to
  their users and meet the increasing demands
• developing strong program, advance the high
  education environment
• promoting the resource sharing action to a higher
  level

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Thank you!