Union catalog

Library networks or composite panels are centralized services for libraries, librarianship.

They coordinate the cooperative cataloging and interlibrary loan in their field and often carry out central tasks of data processing, training and other services.

  • 4.1 Information Network of German Switzerland (IDS )
  • 4.2 St. Gallen library network ( SGBN )
  • 4.3 West Swiss Library Network ( RERO )
  • 4.4 Sistema bibliotecario ticinese ( Sbt )
  • 9.1 Germany
  • 9.2 Austria
  • 9.3 Switzerland

Union catalogs

They are union catalogs and emerged in the 1970s after the U.S. model as cataloging networks. This has the advantage that a bibliographic record in the composite is taken only once and other libraries their copies must only add. There are agreements between the participating libraries on the division of labor cataloging certain subject areas. There are agreements about which libraries may modify bibliographic records. The Network Office coordinates the work and decides if in doubt.

Library networks in Germany

For the implementation of the Interregional interlibrary loan, the Federal Republic of Germany is divided into Leihverkehrsregionen. Leihverkehrsregionen and composite regions are usually the same. Leihverkehrszentralen are responsible for the coordination of interlibrary loan in the regions. The Leihverkehrsregionen or composite regions were formed after the second world war.

Bavarian Library Network (BVB )

The group includes more than 135 mainly academic libraries in Bavaria, including the Bavarian State Library, 11 university libraries, 17 polytechnic libraries and 10 regional public libraries. An official founding date, there is not; the start in offline composite was in 1970, in the online network in 1987., the composite operations are headquartered in the Bavarian State Library in Munich. You looked next to the central composite database on the Internet portal gateway Bavaria, the dynamic link resolver SFX, the BVB article database, the online interlibrary loan, shared CD - ROM server and the multimedia system DigiTool.

The union catalog of BVB contains over 18 million bibliographic data with over 35 million volumes. As part of the catalog enrichment of content, abstracts and blurbs are offered.

The Internet portal Gateway Bayern allows searches in the heterogeneous and diverse offerings of the BVB and is the central entry point for literary seekers to the services of the Virtual Library Bavaria Represents the result of a search includes the optimal case, not only the titles of books and magazines, but also of essays and metadata for digital objects such as full sets, videos, images and more.

The article database of the BVB is used to refine searches in journals whose contents are not detected in library catalogs usually. It contains more than 46 million tracks from 21,000 journals with a focus on the current scientific literature.

With the online interlibrary loan, the interlibrary loan accelerated both monographs as well as in documents from several weeks to a few days. The also administered in this union joint CD -ROM server allows the libraries of the BVB to provide their users with a variety of different databases in an economical form.

The multimedia system DigiTool is the common platform of the Bavarian compound libraries to manage and presentation of digital documents and collections.

Common Library Network ( GBV )

The Common Library Network consists of more than 430 libraries, including all academic and many public libraries in Lower Saxony, Saxony -Anhalt, Thuringia, Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig -Holstein, Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania as well as the libraries of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The main task of GBV is the cooperation and organization of services by and for libraries in the network area. These mainly include the Central Library System (CBS) for cooperative cataloging and the local library systems (LBS ).

In the common Union Catalogue ( GVK) 34.1 million titles, with more than 79.4 million owned detection of books, periodicals, articles, conference proceedings, microforms, electronic documents, media, music, maps, etc. are recorded.

The headquarters of the Verbund headquarters, ( BRZN ) emerged from the Library Computer Center of Lower Saxony, in Göttingen at the State and University Library. As a software - based system PICA serves.

University Library Center of North Rhine -Westphalia ( HBZ )

The University Library Centre of North Rhine -Westphalia ( HBZ ) is a central service and development facility for the university libraries in North Rhine -Westphalia and Rhineland- Palatinate. On the basis of contractual agreements assumes the HBZ for 40 years tasks for libraries and institutions within and outside of North Rhine -Westphalia. It has its headquarters in Cologne.

The composite database includes records of over 18 million tracks that were created by the participating member libraries or imported by automatic methods. In addition, over 40 million inventory data of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate compound libraries. In the composite database facilitates the data of the North Rhine -Westphalian Bibliography ( NWBib ) are performed. It is updated periodically with data from the journal database ( ZDB). The bibliographic metadata of the HBZ - union database will be about 1 million digital objects - especially tables of contents and full text - enriched.

Additional products and services include:

  • The Digital Library ( Digital Library ): portal to the world of knowledge for about 220 libraries, access to interlibrary loan and document delivery service for heterogeneous information and services of the library, possibility of researching in more than 450 case databases
  • The link management system DigiLink and virtual and collaborative information network DigiAuskunft
  • Digital Peer Publishing ( DIPP ): offer for hosting quality controlled electronic open access journals
  • Digital content: consortial acquisition of electronic content, central and regional contract management platform for usage statistics, hosting of databases, customer service and training of Photographic Library
  • German Library Statistics ( DBS ) and Austrian library statistics: annual recording of all key performance indicators in the areas of equipment, inventory, borrowing, spending, finance and personnel of public and academic libraries
  • BIX - The Library Index: libraries nationwide ranking for the German Library Association ( dbv ) and HBZ in cooperation with BITonline, enables a differentiated performance comparison of libraries
  • Interlibrary loan: Online Literature Ordering and Document Delivery Service
  • Search space: technical infrastructure solution for efficient retrieval in bibliographic stands using search engine technology
  • Digitization: converting digital media such as paper books and magazines HBZ in digital form with the digitization platforms scantoweb hosted by and MyBib eL ® and Catalogue Enrichment
  • Storage and management of large amounts of digital objects of all kinds, hosting and archiving of webpages as well as long-term archiving of electronic legal deposit, hosting of academic publications and repositories
  • Linked Open Data ( LOD): development of knowledge and technology for Linked Data -based services, developments in this area are based on two pillars: publication of open licensed data for free use by everyone and cross-domain web standards for the development of new technologies

Hessian Library Information System ( HeBIS )

The Hessian library information system HeBIS is the electronic information and service network of academic libraries in Hesse and the Rhine-Hesse region of Rhineland -Palatinate. Organizationally HeBIS is involved in the universities of the country; the lead is the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. The Department HeBIS information technology is the technical service center ( home to 2007 as " department library data processing " part of the Hochulrechenzentrums and therefore in its premises ). The HeBIS Network Office is the library service center, located in the premises of the UB.

HeBIS based on a central composite database in Frankfurt am Main with six local subsystems ( at the universities / colleges in Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Giessen, Kassel, Marburg, Mainz, Germany ) using the internationally popular library software from OCLC PICA.

The spectrum of the participating institutions is diverse: university and college libraries, institutes and special libraries, state and city libraries have HeBIS connected to perform their tasks more efficiently by use of central services can. The number of active in the group cataloged independent great libraries is currently 25 The HeBIS union database currently contains over 40 million records, including approximately 15 million tracks of all forms of publication ( including electronic media ) with more than 23 million stock certificates from a total of 638 libraries of all sizes in the region.

HeBIS went in early 1987 as a pure online cataloging in composite production. Since then, the tasks and objectives have expanded dramatically. Today HeBIS offers a comprehensive service for libraries and user based on user -configured library software with all modules for a highly efficient and economical library management using international standards:

  • Provision and maintenance of centralized cataloging and reference databases including foreign, Standard and retro - data;
  • Provision and maintenance of a central composite portal with authentication routine, database selection, Metasearch, availability search and integrated order component;
  • Provision and maintenance of local portal views according to individual local conditions;
  • Provision and maintenance of a union OPAC with user-friendly interface;
  • Provision and maintenance of internal composite and composite cross Fernleihfunktionen in cooperation with the other composite systems;
  • Organization and implementation of a coordinated, cost-effective acquisition of electronic journals and databases within the HeBIS consortium;
  • Construction of full-text servers;
  • System development and maintenance; LIS professional, organizational and technical support;
  • Care of HeBIS composite libraries by application-related job aids and materials, training, and training, technical and organizational assistance, publishing an online magazine for HeBIS composite ( " hebiscocktail " ), extensive information services to the HeBIS websites;
  • Active participation in standardization and work rules;
  • Planning and coordination of projects.

Cooperative Library Network Berlin -Brandenburg ( KOBV )

The Cooperative Library Network Berlin -Brandenburg ( KOBV ) is the union of all university libraries, all public libraries and many special libraries in Berlin and Brandenburg. In contrast to other German library networks, cooperation on a minimal solution is limited. The title information is collected separately, and one of the largest libraries in Berlin, the Berlin State Library, working instead with the KOBV with the GBV together.

The KOBV was at the Konrad Zuse Center for Information Technology Berlin (ZIB ), built from 1997 to 2000 and institutionalized in 2001 through the signing of an agreement between the states of Berlin and Brandenburg and the CIA. He is the successor of the Library Network Berlin -Brandenburg ( BVBB ). Service and Development Center of KOBV 's operations currently located in the CIA KOBV headquarters.

The Head Office of the KOBV operates the internet portal of Berlin and Brandenburg libraries that enables users and users with access to the information resources of many libraries. At the same time, it is the service and Development Center for the participating libraries and consortial in this function service provider for a number of library applications.

Among the most important KOBV Internet offerings include:

  • KOBV Portal - provides searching and interlibrary loan in the catalogs of the libraries KOBV, the German library networks and major international libraries and consortia as well as searching in other national and international electronic resources.
  • KOBV Full Text Server - provides access to the full text of the Friedrich -Althoff Consortium ( FAK) licensed electronic journal articles (archive server; restricted area) and to the full texts of published in the regional publication servers freely accessible documents.
  • Virtual Union Catalogs ( UK) - for research specific media or literature from specific areas of expertise. So far, the UK film, VK and VK are realized Judaica notes.
  • Library Guide - the online table of contents of the Berlin and Brandenburg libraries.

The responsibilities for interlibrary loan and interlibrary loans are distributed in Berlin and Brandenburg on two institutions: the KOBV headquarters and is based at the Central and Regional Library Berlin ( ZLB ) Leihverkehrszentrale Berlin- Brandenburg. The KOBV headquarters realized the technical implementation of the automated interlibrary loan and interlibrary loan for end-users: It operates the inter-library loan Server and the interlibrary loan software, provides technical support for the Fernleihbibliotheken and performs the billing through. The Leihverkehrszentrale is, inter alia, responsible for the approval of new libraries for interlibrary loan, the leadership of the official Leihverkehrsliste and the organization of the books car service.

The KOBV cooperates with the Friedrich -Althoff Consortium eV ( FAK). In FAK scientific institutions of the states of Berlin and Brandenburg have come together to provide their users and users of scientific information from electronic publications.

In December 2007 the Bavarian Library Network and the Cooperative Library Network Berlin -Brandenburg have formed a strategic alliance. The agreement provides for the joint development of innovative services and the establishment of a joint union database.

South German (SWB )

The Southwest German Library Network includes more than 1,200 libraries from the Saarland, Baden- Württemberg and Saxony. The Head Office of the SWB, the Library Service Centre Baden- Württemberg ( BSZ ), is located in Constance and Stuttgart. The Library Network offers "Online GND" ( OGND ) its own portal for searching in the common authority file (GND).

Network of Public Libraries in Berlin ( VÖBB )

The VÖBB was a joint project of the 12 Berlin districts, the Foundation Central and Regional Library Berlin ( ZLB ) and the Senate Administration for Science, Research and Culture launched in 1995. His title data can be searched through the portal of KOBV.

Austrian Library Network

The Austrian Library Network is a cataloging and service network for Austria's scientific and administrative libraries. Form the core of the Austrian National Library and the University Libraries.

Library networks in Switzerland

The composite landscape in Switzerland is highly fragmented. In addition to the large networks of university and college libraries, there are other associations of cantonal libraries. Below is a selection is only listed.

Information Network of German Switzerland (IDS )

The information network German Switzerland comprises 400 libraries; in five databases are listed with over 24 million copies, 15 million bibliographic records. The majority of these libraries is in German Switzerland, but there are also libraries of the French-speaking and Italian-speaking Switzerland represented. The IDS consists of seven partners in five Aleph associations and covers all university and college libraries of German Switzerland. The beginning of the productive collaboration was 1999.

The collaborations are autonomous; However, there is an intensive cooperation ( common set of rules, etc.) and a slender composite organization for joint projects.

In the IDS search the comprehensive search will be offered to the large library databases and networks in Switzerland.

These members are organized as independent associations part in the IDS:

  • IDS Basel / Bern
  • IDS Lucerne
  • IDS St. Gallen
  • IDS Zurich University
  • IDS Zurich Central Library
  • NEBIS

St. Gallen library network ( SGBN )

The St. Gallen library network is a library network of 46 libraries that operate together a composite database with the Aleph library system and offer the audience an online catalog as well as administrative and accounting order. The Head Office of the SGBN is affiliated with the State Library of St. Gallen.

West Swiss Library Network ( RERO )

RERO maintains a complete catalog of about 215 libraries with services primarily to the 35,000 students of the four French-speaking universities in Switzerland ( Genève, Fribourg, Lausanne and Neuchâtel ).

Sistema bibliotecario ticinese ( Sbt )

The Sistema bibliotecario ticinese includes the four Ticino cantonal libraries (Lugano, Locarno, Mendrisio and Bellinzona ), the University Libraries in Lugano and Mendrisio, and school libraries in the canton of Ticino. It performs several public catalogs and a meta-catalog. With regard to data format and rules the Sbt is an IDS partner and uses the same system as the IDS libraries.

Library networks in the non -German speaking countries

In the European Union there are in all the major countries of library networks such as Copac in England, SBN in Italy, Sweden and in LIBRIS REBIUN in Spain. The European national libraries are networked via the European Library. In the U.S., there is no library networks that would be comparable with the associations in Germany. The existing library networks are often smaller and have been for the purpose of sharing their media set. In addition, the loan service between the libraries of these self- organized. The services of the Library of Congress ( LoC ) are largely free of charge. Is The Online Computer Library Center ( OCLC ), which is headquartered in Dublin (Ohio ), non-profit organization, but requires library to finance their services and software offered fees.

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