HELSINIIIIKI CITY HELSINKI CITY LIBRARY SERVICES FOR IMMIGRANTSLIBRARY SERVICES FOR IMMIGRANTSES/ESITYKSEN ALAOTSIKKO
BUILDING COLLECTIONS TOGETHER: ACQUIRING E-BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES”
ANNA-MARIA SOININVAARA
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CONTENT
Background, Helsinki, material types and their development
Borrowing by material types Volumes The role of the Helsinki Central Library from the
point of view of library materials Road to e-book borrowing here and elsewhere Domestic e-book supply and its challenges Development projects
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HELSINKI CITY LIBRARY – THE CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY
37 libraries, more than 600 000 inhabitants. Material expenditure c. 3,3 million euros.
Due to its role as a Central Public Library, Ministry of Education and Culture has supported many of the library’s development projects, for example those concerning digital materials.
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MULTILINGUAL LIBRARY
Multilingual Library: materials in more than 100 languages.
Need to have more e-books and e loudbooks.
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BORROWING STATISTICS
Total number of loans in 2012 was 9 272462 In 2011 the number of loans was 9,5 million,
which meant that borrowing fell c. 2,5%. Every Helsinki resident borrowed 15,4 items and
visited library 11.3 times in 2012. Borrowing has gone down in recent years
especially as regards music items. E-book borrowing rose 119 %, but is still
marginal compared with other materials. E-books were borrowed 10 971 times in 2012.
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LIBRARY NOW AND FOREVER
BOOKS ON-LINE BOOKS FOREVER
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2012 COLLECTION CONSISTED OF:
83,22 % books: 1 564 523 copies 10,25 % music recordings, 192 784 copies 2,46 % visual recordings, 46 285 copies 1,68 % speech recordings, 31 599 copies 1,41 % sheet music, 26 484 copies 0,97 % other materials (console games, maps,
physical items and 2703 titles of e-books), all in all 18 272 copies
Altogether 1 880 854 different borrowable items.
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E- BOOKS IN FINNISH LIBRARIES
E-books are borrowed in many Finnish libraries, mostly via Ellibs –service, but not in great quantities, no new titles.
There are far more non-fiction than fiction e-books. Bigger libraries lend out also e-book devices either
with or without content. Helsinki and Oulu libraries among others have lent
Samsung tablets which contain titles published by CrimeTime publishing house in cooperation with ElisaKirja (telephone operator)
Other reading devices have been lent without content around Finland.
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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES PROJECTS IN HELSINKI
2005: Ellibs 2008-09: net music services under consideration, for
example Sony service 2009: digital texts and reading devices were studied ;
the project received subsidies from the Ministry of Education and culture in order to examine the net disseminating of music and texts via the Internet
Both projects continued in 2010, Electronic resources for the public libraries –project was launched and it also became a part of the electronic resources for public libraries project under the United Nations patronage.
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EVOLVING COOPERATION
Negotiations with Sony in 2008 did not result in agreement
Negotiations with The Finnish Broadcastin Company concerning radio plays fell through due to the broadcasting company’s organisational restructuring.
Funding for the digital texts and e-reading devices for the library use was applied from the Ministry of Education and the project received the funding
A major e-book meeting convened in January 2010 which included publishers, National Library, Ministry of Education and Culture, booksellers, writer / author organisations etc. In sum, all important actors in book publishing.
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THE TIME WAS NOT RIPE!
The participants came to the conclusion that it was an important issue but that the time for e-book was not ripe in Finland!
However, e-book markets were discussed in connection with the Next Media project but the library was excluded from the project despite the fact that we asked to be included in the project.
A year later a major publisher together with book supplier contacted us and we organised a joint meeting.
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PROGRESS IN 2011
Library field’s own taskforce: Digital resources for public libraries in an effort to create understanding within the library field in order to recognise the challenges in the whole of Finland, and later as a training project to support the consortium
Negotiations for distributing e-books directly via borrowable reading devices: in cooperation with ElisaKirja, Samsung and Crime Time publishers
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NEXT MEDIA PROJECT: E-BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES
From beginning of 2012 Helsinki City Library was invited to participate in the new phase of Next Media project: E-books for libraries. National Library was put in charge of the project, but the day-to-day development work has been done by Helsinki City Library together with Ellibs-service, VTT(Technical Research Centre of Finland) and Aalto University.
Also some publishers and book delivers are cooperating with us.
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EBIB
From a national eReading project evolved eBib pilot study / experiment
35 new titles by Otava for lending purposes
Experiments with browser readingExperiments with licensing
models and the distribution of metadata
Testing and development of user interface.
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FORWARD IN COOPERATION!
EReading project resulted in good channels for cooperation with the whole literary field: publishers, and through publishing consortium such big publishers as Otava and Bonnier participated in the project.
We have frankly told the publishers of our limitations but at the same time told them that we understand their revenue models.
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Together we studied both usability factors as well as licensing and pricing models.
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DIFFERING POINTS OF VIEW
Publishers seek a system in which: Monitoring of royalty payments and lending rights is easy
Libraries seeks a system in which: costs don’t escalate uncontrollably and total price does not exceed that of printed
materials materials can be managed and controlled: lending
rights (licences) can be granted and cancelled
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E-BOOK PROJECTS
2012: Overdrive, English language books 2012: Next Media EReading, Ebib, Otava and Edita
books, including experiments with browser reading 2012: Cooperation with Samsung, ELISA and
CrimeTime, borrowable tablets in Oulu and Helsinki 2013: EReading together with eBib project will
continue, licensing models will be studied as well as social reading and dissemination of metadata
2013: Cooperation with Elisa company will continue at least in terms of a digital reading circle
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THE DIGITAL LIBRARY
We also want our customers to feel at home…
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SUMMING UP OF THE 2013 DIGITAL RESOURCES
Old Ellibs and its new pilot version eBib for domestic lending; streaming part of the eBib
Overdrive for lending English language e-books Naxos Music Library is the only service provider in
music sector PressDisplay and Epress continue in newspaper and
magazine sector Zinio to be part of the English language periodicals Indieflix will soon be distributed (as soon as age limit
checks have been implemented) Lending of the downloaded reader devices will also
continue for example in reading circles. Experiment with social reading circle in cooperation with
ElisaKirja in September
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THANK YOU!
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