HELSINIIIIKI CITY HELSINKI CITY LIBRARY SERVICES FOR IMMIGRANTSLIBRARY SERVICES FOR IMMIGRANTSES/ESITYKSEN ALAOTSIKKO

BUILDING COLLECTIONS TOGETHER: ACQUIRING E-BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES”

ANNA-MARIA SOININVAARA

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CONTENT

Background, Helsinki, material types and their development

Borrowing by material types Volumes The role of the Helsinki Central Library from the

point of view of library materials Road to e-book borrowing here and elsewhere Domestic e-book supply and its challenges Development projects

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HELSINKI CITY LIBRARY – THE CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY

37 libraries, more than 600 000 inhabitants. Material expenditure c. 3,3 million euros.

Due to its role as a Central Public Library, Ministry of Education and Culture has supported many of the library’s development projects, for example those concerning digital materials.

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MULTILINGUAL LIBRARY

Multilingual Library: materials in more than 100 languages.

Need to have more e-books and e loudbooks.

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BORROWING STATISTICS

Total number of loans in 2012 was 9 272462 In 2011 the number of loans was 9,5 million,

which meant that borrowing fell c. 2,5%. Every Helsinki resident borrowed 15,4 items and

visited library 11.3 times in 2012. Borrowing has gone down in recent years

especially as regards music items. E-book borrowing rose 119 %, but is still

marginal compared with other materials. E-books were borrowed 10 971 times in 2012.

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LIBRARY NOW AND FOREVER

BOOKS ON-LINE BOOKS FOREVER

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2012 COLLECTION CONSISTED OF:

83,22 % books: 1 564 523 copies 10,25 % music recordings, 192 784 copies 2,46 % visual recordings, 46 285 copies 1,68 % speech recordings, 31 599 copies 1,41 % sheet music, 26 484 copies 0,97 % other materials (console games, maps,

physical items and 2703 titles of e-books), all in all 18 272 copies

Altogether 1 880 854 different borrowable items.

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E- BOOKS IN FINNISH LIBRARIES

E-books are borrowed in many Finnish libraries, mostly via Ellibs –service, but not in great quantities, no new titles.

There are far more non-fiction than fiction e-books. Bigger libraries lend out also e-book devices either

with or without content. Helsinki and Oulu libraries among others have lent

Samsung tablets which contain titles published by CrimeTime publishing house in cooperation with ElisaKirja (telephone operator)

Other reading devices have been lent without content around Finland.

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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES PROJECTS IN HELSINKI

2005: Ellibs 2008-09: net music services under consideration, for

example Sony service 2009: digital texts and reading devices were studied ;

the project received subsidies from the Ministry of Education and culture in order to examine the net disseminating of music and texts via the Internet

Both projects continued in 2010, Electronic resources for the public libraries –project was launched and it also became a part of the electronic resources for public libraries project under the United Nations patronage.

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EVOLVING COOPERATION

Negotiations with Sony in 2008 did not result in agreement

Negotiations with The Finnish Broadcastin Company concerning radio plays fell through due to the broadcasting company’s organisational restructuring.

Funding for the digital texts and e-reading devices for the library use was applied from the Ministry of Education and the project received the funding

A major e-book meeting convened in January 2010 which included publishers, National Library, Ministry of Education and Culture, booksellers, writer / author organisations etc. In sum, all important actors in book publishing.

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THE TIME WAS NOT RIPE!

The participants came to the conclusion that it was an important issue but that the time for e-book was not ripe in Finland!

However, e-book markets were discussed in connection with the Next Media project but the library was excluded from the project despite the fact that we asked to be included in the project.

A year later a major publisher together with book supplier contacted us and we organised a joint meeting.

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PROGRESS IN 2011

Library field’s own taskforce: Digital resources for public libraries in an effort to create understanding within the library field in order to recognise the challenges in the whole of Finland, and later as a training project to support the consortium

Negotiations for distributing e-books directly via borrowable reading devices: in cooperation with ElisaKirja, Samsung and Crime Time publishers

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NEXT MEDIA PROJECT: E-BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES

From beginning of 2012 Helsinki City Library was invited to participate in the new phase of Next Media project: E-books for libraries. National Library was put in charge of the project, but the day-to-day development work has been done by Helsinki City Library together with Ellibs-service, VTT(Technical Research Centre of Finland) and Aalto University.

Also some publishers and book delivers are cooperating with us.

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EBIB

From a national eReading project evolved eBib pilot study / experiment

35 new titles by Otava for lending purposes

Experiments with browser readingExperiments with licensing

models and the distribution of metadata

Testing and development of user interface.

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FORWARD IN COOPERATION!

EReading project resulted in good channels for cooperation with the whole literary field: publishers, and through publishing consortium such big publishers as Otava and Bonnier participated in the project.

We have frankly told the publishers of our limitations but at the same time told them that we understand their revenue models.

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Together we studied both usability factors as well as licensing and pricing models.

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DIFFERING POINTS OF VIEW

Publishers seek a system in which: Monitoring of royalty payments and lending rights is easy

Libraries seeks a system in which: costs don’t escalate uncontrollably and total price does not exceed that of printed

materials materials can be managed and controlled: lending

rights (licences) can be granted and cancelled

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E-BOOK PROJECTS

2012: Overdrive, English language books 2012: Next Media EReading, Ebib, Otava and Edita

books, including experiments with browser reading 2012: Cooperation with Samsung, ELISA and

CrimeTime, borrowable tablets in Oulu and Helsinki 2013: EReading together with eBib project will

continue, licensing models will be studied as well as social reading and dissemination of metadata

2013: Cooperation with Elisa company will continue at least in terms of a digital reading circle

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THE DIGITAL LIBRARY

We also want our customers to feel at home…

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SUMMING UP OF THE 2013 DIGITAL RESOURCES

Old Ellibs and its new pilot version eBib for domestic lending; streaming part of the eBib

Overdrive for lending English language e-books Naxos Music Library is the only service provider in

music sector PressDisplay and Epress continue in newspaper and

magazine sector Zinio to be part of the English language periodicals Indieflix will soon be distributed (as soon as age limit

checks have been implemented) Lending of the downloaded reader devices will also

continue for example in reading circles. Experiment with social reading circle in cooperation with

ElisaKirja in September

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THANK YOU!

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