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National Library of Sweden
Agneta Holmenmark
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Moving out!
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Operations and tasks
The National Library of Sweden has three main duties
• collect and preserve the Swedish cultural heritage concerning text and audiovisual media, and make the material available to the public
• serve as a research library, with a primary emphasis on the humanities and social sciences
• serve as the infrastructure for the Swedish research community & promote cooperation for the Swedish library sector
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Governance
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Collections
• The National Library collections are made up of
20 million items
• Legal deposit act since 1661 – 350th Anniversary 2011
• Large collection of foreign literature
• Hand-drawn maps, manuscripts, private archives
• 8 million hours of radio,TV and music
• Sweden's cultural heritage consisting of audio and motion picture media has been recorded and stored since 1979
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Organisation
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Legal deposit act for digital material
•Adopted in July 2012. Tests 2012:July – 2014:December on 10 newspapers, 10 journals/magazines, 15 government agencies, 17 television & broadcasting companies
•Technical infrastructure
•Archiving & long term preservation
•At present, the National Library signs agreements with publishers and other actors to deliver digital material on a voluntary basis
•Archiving the web - ongoing archiving of Swedish websites, a process that began back in 1997 and has to be improved
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Priorities & challenges (1)
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Digitizaition
•Newspapers
•Swedish governmental offical
reports
•Manuscripts
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Project Digidaily
• Digidaily – digitization of newspapers, project financed by the European Union, National Archive, National Library and the Mid Sweden University
• 2010:April – 2013:March
• 3 million pages
• 122 million pages
• 70 million pages on microfilm
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To coordinate library development
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Refurbishment of the Library Building
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