Partnership for creating Public Library collections in Germany. How Public Libraries stock can stay relevant for our customers

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1 Partnership for creating Public Library collections in Germany How Public Libraries stock can stay relevant for our customers

2 Partnership for collection building Collection Management in German Public Libraries 1. Flashlight on international Guidelines and Principles for Collection Management 2. Collection Management in Bremen Framework and Standards 3. Lektoratskooperation Supporting libraries in collection building 2

3 International Guidelines and Principles for Collection Management & Development It is imperative that collections continue to be developed on an ongoing basis to ensure that people have a constant choice of new materials and to meet the demands of new services and of changing levels of use. Collection size is determined by many factors, including space, financial resources, catchment population of the library, proximity to other libraries, acquisition and discard rates, and policy of stock exchanges with other libraries. The library collection is a dynamic resource. It requires a constant inflow of new material and outflow of old material to ensure that it remains relevant to the community and at an acceptable level of accuracy. 2001, repr p. 50, 53,

4 BREMEN PUBLIC LIBRARY COLLECTION MANAGEMENT 4

5 WHERE IS BREMEN? BREMEN Hamburg Rostock Inhabitants: 550,000 Territory: 325 sqkm Hannover Berlin Düsseldorf Magdeburg Erfurt Dresden Frankfurt Nürnberg Stuttgart München 5 Barbara Lison 5

6 The Library Network 1 Central Library 7 Branch Libraries: Adults & Children 1 Mobile Library (21 stops) 1 Prison Library + 1 Hospital Library BREMEN 6 Barbara Lison 6

7 Bremen Public Libraries counted Million visits to the premises and 1.3 Million visits to the homepage. 73,000 users held a library card and carried out 3.3 Million loans. 7

8 Mandate and Mission Statement of Bremen Public The Public Library of Bremen gives access to cultural heritage, to knowledge and upto-date information. The library s services and collections are based on the principle of neutrality. The library has central and decentral services which are based on and developed along societal and technical developments as well as oriented on the changing expectations of the citizens. We keep the privacy of the patrons. We care for the diversity of the society. We observe the principles of Gender Mainstreaming. 8

9 Lean Collection Management Guidelines for Collection Management and Target Quantities in Bremen Collection Target Quantity: 1 media per inhabitant Target Renewal Rate: Minimum of 10 percent per annum On average, every 10 years the total collection is replaced by new media! 9

10 Lean Collection Management Our principles for the availability of media, in terms of service and premises according to our brand essence: The quantity of the stock and its mixture have to match size of the library (buildings and number of service points) demands of the patrons real usage main tasks (e.g. reading promotion) orientation, variety, topicality The capacity of the shelves depends on free access display of the media self-service options (lending/returning) standards for the presentation of the media absence level 10

11 Criteria and tools for collection development Criteria: Current Trends Diversity Level of use: Statistics, usage reports Target figures for collection size in each branch Tools: Standing Orders publications from publishing houses publication of the Lektoratskooperation 11

12 What is the Lektoratskooperation? Public Private Partnership between 3 partners since 1976: German Library Association (Deutscher Bibliotheksverband (DBV)) A Professional association of library information (Berufsverband Information Bibliothek (BIB)) A Library company and full-service provider (ekz.bibliotheksservice GmbH (ekz)) Cooperative scheme of media-evaluation for German public libraries Decentralized, practical media market analysis with a centrally organized review service What are the main aims of this partnership? Media market analysis of more than 90,000 new publications per year Review service for the relevant titles for public libraries (about 20,000 titles per year) Evaluation with valuation and recommendations according to the size of the library, on the basis of objective and neutral criteria from library professionals 12

13 Duties and responsibilities of the partners German Library Association (Deutscher Bibliotheksverband (DBV)) Partner of the libraries Acquisition of libraries with their subject specialists Subject specialist are released from their libraries during working hours Professional association of library information (Berufsverband Information Bibliothek (BIB)) Selection of reviewers after an application procedure support for reviewers Reviewers write book reviews in their leisure time for fees Library company and full-service provider (ekz.bibliotheksservice GmbH (ekz)) Media market analysis of new publications Creation, printing and distribution of the review service (ID: information service, different editions with varying number of titles) 13

14 Lektoratskooperation the way it works Media market analysis subject specialists: Non-Fiction ekz-subject specialists: fiction, children s literature, non-fiction Acquisition of review copies ekz Dispatch of review copies to the subject specialists and reviewers Subject specialists: Non-Fiction (cursorily reading) Reviewers: Fiction, children s literature, non-fiction (intensive reading) Cataloging and classification of the review titles ekz Review (including a recommendation for libraries) Subject Specialists Reviewers Editing of the book review texts ekz Creation, printing and distribution of the review service ekz 14

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