Partner relationship:Humboldt-Universität Berlin & University of Toronto

Berlin VisitNovember 22-26, 2010

Cristina SewerinCollection Development,

Engineering & Computer Science LibraryMarch 1, 2011

Exchange relationship with HumboldtRecent:Summer 2010 Humboldt U of TFall 2010 U of T Humboldt

Other 2010Goethe-Institut | Humboldt &UofT iSchools | UTL1 month exchange students: 2008, 2010

Goals of November 2010 visit

…obtain current overview of Humboldt Library system & its

priorities

…explore potential for in-depth collaboration and possible areas

Week at a glance• RFID project• Institutional repository, digitization initiatives• collection development• e-collections• special collections• Tours:

– Grimm– Schrodinger– music

• IBI Dean Dr Seadle (LUKII; national long term preservation strategy)

• UTL Presentation to Directors

Humboldt-Universität BerlinBerlin‘s oldest university; 1810

Post-war: DDR

Today: 27,000 students

Past decade• infrastructure investment• growth, transformation

• Early 2000s new south science campus

• 2003 new natural sciences library

• 2009 new central H&SS library

Campus Nord• Life Sciences

Campus Mitte•Central library administration•Humanities•Social Sciences

Campus AdlershofMathematics•Computer Science•Physics•Chemistry•Geography•Psychology

Humboldt Campuses

Universitätsbibliothek (HU-UB)

• 1 central library + 14 branch libraries• 7M volumes• Acquisition budget : 3.1 M €• Additional: 0.9 M € (Siemens Foundation:

monograph)

• special collections: -ethnology-higher education-private library of Jacob & Wilhelm

Grimm

• institutional repository• close cooperation between Library, Computer

& Media Centers

Priorities, projects

Physical infrastructure

Metadata

RFID

Discovery layer

Institutional repository

Digitization

Soon: Mobile web supportLonger term: Information literacy

Grimm-Zentrum:2009 completion

Metadata: standardization, record creation, concatenation, automation

Historically, multiple class schemesstandardizing to RVK(Regensburger Verbundklassification)Cards sent to agency in PolandConcatenation in-houseProjected finish: 2017

RFIDRadio frequency identification device

• began project Jan 2009• completion:end of 2012 • EU/HU 50-50% cost share• 70 student workers• 7,000,000 books• Benefits: inventory, security,

loans, fines, statistics, automated sorting, better user service

RFID: Book sorting facilities• Buchsortierlage: Swisslog

Telelift

• first company to do this

• uses the RFID technology to discharge and sort

• Staff report system very stable

Primus (ExLibris) beta rollout Oct 2010

OPAC Shelf Location View

EDOC, EOD, books2ebooksEDOC: institutional server, repository• approx 13,000 documents so far• similar mix as T-Space

EOD: eBooks on Demand• Europe-wide network digitizing rare books • 13 libraries, 8 countries• Metadata, fulltext via federated searching in all member

catalogues

Books2ebooks EOD• Book adoption by individuals; one part of strategy• fragile items, or those particularly relevant to teaching

and research needs are being digitized using library funding

Special collections:Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm

Adlershof campus Schrodinger-Zentrum

• sciences campus• 10 years old• Library was last piece: 2003

• Library: former airplane hangar – beautiful elements of the previous

structure incorporated into design, e.g., vaulted brick ceilings

– Open, inviting design

• media and technology department integrated into library building

• computer help desk for campus right at front entrance

Shopping basketsFinding aids throughout

Collection DevelopmentBudgets• 3.1 M € annual, plus 0.9 M € (Siemens Foundation) • 50,000 ebooks actively licensed

Purchase models• Packages (Springer) but also pick & choose (Elsevier, Wiley,

deGruyter)

• primarily lease for very large collections – otherwise not affordable

• Looked at PDA; rejected –poor model for ensuring robust research collection

Collection Development cont’d• Local loading if possible

• Approval plans: used only in very comprehensive areas (ethnology, higher ed)

• E-textbooks: primarily math & physics – Springer; purchasing both English and german language

• Consortia: mix of national, regional, and product-specific

Closing thoughts• Similar directions, though

different sizes of institutions

• Neither side sure of direction of collaboration: but very interested in more in-depth information exchange

• Planning is underway for Humboldt-UofT followupsummer 2011

Thank you / Vielen Dank!Questions, thoughts?

Slide 1: Ryan Hadley; used under Creative Commons license.

Slide 7: 96dpi; used under Creative Commons licenseSlide 8: Grimm Zentrum: Spiegelneuronen; Schrodinger Zentrum:Rerun van Pelt;

card catalogue: Spotrick; all three used under Creative Commons license; RFIDworkstation: c. C. Sewerin

Slide 9: top left: Spiegelneuronen used under Creative Commons license: all others c. C. Sewerin

Slide 10: card catalogue: Spotrick used under Creative Commons licenseSlides 11 & 12: c. C. SewerinSlide 16: snow white: Express monorail; Deutsches Worterbuch: Nathan Winder ; both

used under Creative Commons licenseSlide 17: Schrodinger Zentrum: Rerun van Pelt used under Creative Commons licenseSlide 18, c. C. SewerinSlides 21 & 22: c. P. Gurney & C. Sewerin

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