The Russian State Library Experience

Galina KislovskayaDeputy Director on Research and Publishing

ILDS conference 221 September 2005

ILDS 9/21.05 2

Russian State Library

[Insert “before” photos]

ILDS 9/21.05 3

Russian State Library

ILDS 9/21.05 4

Background

• History

• Current statistics:

-42,8 M items

-400 000 new acquisitions

-103 000 registered users

-5000 users each day

ILDS 9/21.05 5

Background

-number of references to OPAC -4,6M

-number of loans-7,5 M

-number of visits-1 180 000

-number of consultations-209 700

ILDS 9/21.05 6

ILDS 9/21.05 7

ILDS 9/21.05 8

ILDS 9/21.05 9

ILDS 9/21.05 10

ILDS 9/21.05 11

ILDS 9/21.05 12

Performance

indicator

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Collective users:

-number of users

-number of requests

-number of loans

1471

63218

42580

1406

44312

27889

1069

12303

4557

754

9362

3473

833

17874

7920

846

28829

20136

Individual users:

-number of users

-number of requests

-number of loans

211

-

7096

161

-

3696

311

-

574

466

825

664

683

3686

1855

2417

10173

6354

ILDS 9/21.05 13

Document Delivery of eThesis in 2004

month Number of requests

Number of delivered

documents

%

February-March 873 297 34,0

April-June 701 403 57,5

July –September 949 798 84,1

October-December 866 758 87,5

2004 3389 2256 66,6

ILDS 9/21.05 14

Impetus for Current Initiative

• Demand for periodicals

• Development of EDD

• Implementation of ILS

ILDS 9/21.05 15

Project Description

The aim of the project- to improve

access to RSL periodical

collection

ILDS 9/21.05 16

Project Description

•Analysis of the catalogue and development of specifications•Testing and production system •Dissemination of results and experience

ILDS 9/21.05 17

ILDS 9/21.05 18

ILDS 9/21.05 19

ILDS 9/21.05 20

ILDS 9/21.05 21

ILDS 9/21.05 22

ILDS 9/21.05 23

ILDS 9/21.05 24

ILDS 9/21.05 25

ILDS 9/21.05 26

ILDS 9/21.05 27

RSL Online Record: Siberian Journal of Numerical Mathematics

ILDS 9/21.05 28

Accomplishments

• 72 474 on line records on foreign serials

• 49 839 on line records on Russian serials

• 142 334 titles of individual parts within a

title proper given in a content note in field 505

•518 directories with 100 000 filed tables

•3 847 records under went quality checks

procedures

•765 852 images (both sides) of Russian titles

• 1 830 892 images of foreign titles

ILDS 9/21.05 29

Barriers

Higher proportion of errors in catalogingStaff availability & trainingComplexity of serials