Collection building for special collections

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Collection building for special collections

• Between Cultural Management and Research Special
  collections in the 21st Century, Weimar
• Chantal Keijsper, Head Information Collections
  Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands
  (www.kb.nl)
• 23 November 2005

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Contents

• Organisation
• National tasks
• Collections
• The special collections
• collection plan 2006-2009
• collection building printed and written
  materials
• collection building virtual national collection

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Size

• Budget 36 M Euro
• Permanent staff 263 fte
• Building 75,000 sqm
• Collection items 3,3 million
• more than 67 km of library materials
• Digital collection items 3 million

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Mission statement

• The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National library of
  the Netherlands, gives everyone access to the
  knowledge and culture of the past and the present
  by providing high-quality services for research,
  study and cultural experience.

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National responsibilities

• National programmes and projects
• Research development
• (Inter)national cooperation

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Services

• Performance indicators 2004
• Visits to the library 88.800
• Visits to the website 13.243.000
• (Interlibrary) loans 234.700
• Providing information 53.600
• Exhibitions with KB loans (domestic/foreign) 49 /
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• Customer satisfaction (scale of 1-10) 7,9

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Collection

• International E-deposit
• National deposit of printed works
• Academic collection
• Special collections

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Collection national position

• One of the four largest humanities libraries
• Distinguishs by
• focus on Dutch material
• large source collections (newspapers, journals
  etc.)
• besides academic materials also popular culture
• ephemeral materials in National Deposit last
  resort

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Collection figures

• Performance indicators 2004
• Accretion of books 53.470
• Accretation in issues of periodicals 113.630
• Accretation in electronic publications 1.170.320
• Accretation of special collections 347
• manuscripts 21 (items and collections)
• printed books 269
• papercollection 36
• Bookbindings 21

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Collection plan 2006-2009

• Coherent vision for the KB-collection as a whole
  the academic collection, the national deposit,
  the digital collection and the special
  collections are approached integrally.
• New criteria for collection building
• Handle for budgetting, determination required
  knowledge and specialists
• Tool to set up priorities for activities in the
  fields of expert services, restoration and
  conservation, digitization, presentation,
  cooperation

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New collection division

• Dutch-collection
• National Deposit
• Academic collection, focus on Dutch history,
  language and culture
• Accent collections journals, children books,
  novels etc.
• Special collections
• Manuscripts, printed books, special materials,
  history of the book
• Accent collections incunabula, bookbindings,
  papercollection, pamphlets etc.
• Reference collection
• International E-deposit

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Collection building for special collections
printed and written material

• Budget 155.000 Euro
• Special collections 100.000 Euro
• Book and Library Science 35.000 Euro
• Journals and electronic materials 20.000 Euro
• New criteria Collection plan 2006-2009
• Agreements with other cultural heritage
  institutions

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Collection building for special collections
virtual (national) collection

• National programmes coordinated by the
  Koninklijke Bibliotheek
• Metamorfoze
• Het Geheugen van Nederland / Memory of the
  Netherlands
• National projects
• Illuminated manuscripts
• Parchment to Portal
• Collection Willem Witsen
• Children books
• Project plans
• National infrastructure for the special
  collections
• Dutch newspapers

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National programmes Metamorfoze

• Preservation of cultural heritage (1840-1950) on
  a large scale
• Library collections
• Financed by the government (70 per project) and
  participants (30)
• Preservation by microfilming, de-acidification,
  small restoration, packing and storage
• 65.000 books, 200 metres newspapers, 1.750
  volumes of magazines, 179 collections
• Developments archives, digitisation, cooperation
  in research
• www.metamorfoze.nl

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National programmes Geheugen van Nederland /
Memory of the Netherlands

• Digitisation of cultural heritage on a large
  scale
• Participants libraries, museums, archives,
• Financed by the government (70 per project) and
  participants (30)
• Free use for the general public, (secondary)
  education and research
• 800.000 images, 250 hours video, 100 hours audio
• Developments improvement of metadata, more text
• www.geheugenvannederland.nl

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National projects 1

• Illuminated manuscripts finished
• 11.000 unique images coming from 400 medieval
  illuminated manuscripts from the KB and the
  Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague.
• For researchers and general public
• www.kb.nl/webexpo/manuscripts/html
• Parchment to portal 2005-2007
• Financed by NWO
• Portal and catalogue of the medieval manuscripts
  in The Netherlands (7000)
• For researchers

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National projects 2

• Willem Witsen project 2005-2007
• Conservation, digitisation and presentation of
  the scattered lettres (2000), photographs (7000)
  and other material of Willem Witsen
• Co-operation between 7 institutions
• For researchers and general public
• Presentation different websites
• Children books 2004-2006
• Conservation, digitisation and preservation
• 4 institutions
• For researchers and general public
• Presentation Memory of the Netherlands

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New plans

• Libratory for the humaniora
• A national infrastructure for the special
  collections
• Initiative by KB and university libraries of
  Amsterdam and Leiden
• Metadata, digital images and full text / full
  content
• Funding?
• Dutch newspapers
• National programme for digitization of the Dutch
  newspapers
• Application made

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