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FIRST COLUMN
A Library Child - Doris Kareva
A meditation on learning to read, first books, important libraries and librarians. The poetess interrelates libraries with the Ecclesiastes as both conceal open secrets, an access to concise experience.
A CENTURY OF TALLINN CENTRAL LIBRARY
An Overview of Past Years on the Occasion of the Jubileen - Triinu Seppam, Reelika Punab
Tallinn Central Library is celebrating its 100th an niversary this year. The article provides an overview of the library and its eighteen branches, which serves the citizens of Tallinn, this regrettably not meeting the needs of all, in the recent years.
The library has initiated the construction of a bookmobile that is going to provide library services is the areas, where local library service points are too far away or lack at all. Today all the branches of Tallinn Central Library have shifted to computerised lending system. The Web site is under constant development. In April, the Children’s Page was launched, a Web-based computer booking system is being developed, and the Music Page will be launched soon.
The Staffing of Tallinn Central Library - Kaie Holm
Tallinn Central Library has renewed its personnel employing policy into more systematic and thorough one. In 2005, it established a position of the Personnel Manager that has enabled to focus on drafting personnel documentation, interrelating employees with personnel work and enhancing the reputation of the employer as an atractive one by better informing new staff members.
So far, the prerequisite for the candidate of Tallinn Central Library staff member has been the certficate that ensures his/her professional library education. Potential employees with other academic degrees will enter courses of a professional librarian. The library favours learning after hours.
Kaie Holm regards as a major achievement development evaluation, performed since 2005. This has improved to define the needs of staff training and has, in turn, made the planning of systematic training better.
Today We Serve Adults as well as Children - Ülle Kuuse
Both Tallinn Central Library as well as its branches serve children. The article provides an overview of the history and present day of children’s services.
Live Music in a House Full of Life - Kaie Viigipuu
The fate of the music collection of Tallinn Central Library has been quite inconstant throughout decades. The Music Department was established in its renovated main building in the beginning of 2002. The library was approved as a music library in full status with entering into the membership of the Estonian Music Library Association (EMLA) the same year. The present collection of the Music Department includes literature and periodicals on music in different languages, sheet music and recorded music and videos (today, approximately 14,000 copies). The collection is universal of its content, providing possibilities for learning, recreational activities and amusement. In recent years, the Music Department has been haunted by the provisions of the Copyright Act, that practically makes impossible lending out audiovisual documents.
A modern music library is not only a collection of music documents, but a space for musical activities. That kind of space should be born on Liivalaia Str. 40 in the nearest future. The goal is to develop the present Music Department into a music and film centre with a comfortable working, recreational and leisure time environment. In addition to traditional library services, several other services will be provided, for instance, rehearsing and lending musical instruments, performing, film watching, free stage theatre, and sound and video recording studio.
Integration and Integrating - Kai Idarand
Non-Estonian population forms approximately a half of the inhabitants of Tallinn. Russian is predominant among other languages spoken here to the extent that the Russian-speaking library users’ demands, needs and service peculiarities must be taken under special consideration. The article ponders upon the Russian-speaking library users and if they differ from Estonians and are they satisfied with the service.
Kalamaja Library Moved to the Kotzebue Street - Heli Kivi
The Branch of Tallinn Central Library, Kalamaja Library, is the oldest library of the four located in Põhja-Tallinn residential district. It was opened to the public on Graniidi Str. 1 in 1929. In 2006, the library was provided with new premises on Kotzebue Str. 9/11. The outcome is better that expected, although the premises of former children’s polyclinic is not an ideal solution for the library as it means long and narrow passages and a great number of load-bearing partitions. The collection is disposed on open shelves, children served in a separate part of the premises and there is a room for organising events without interrupting reading in the new spacious library. The library is equipped with a lift for physically impared as to enable the access to the building.
Anne-Marie Ivask: We Also Had to Knock on the Doors of Overdue Borrowers - Anneli Kengsepp
In the summer of 2007, Anne-Marie Ivask celebrated her 45th year of employment as a librarian in Kopli Library. Her colleagues of Torupilli, Sääse, Pirita, Paepealse, Männi, Laagna and Pääsküla branch libraries enquired Anne-Marie of her recollections of the past years. The interview touches upon the past, present and the future of reading, libraries and librarians’ role.
RECOLLECTION
A Study Trip to Czechoslovakia - Piret Lotman
In the 1920s two talented and hard-working young women, Mall Jürma and Helene Johani, emerged in Estonian librarianship. In addition to articles about librarianship, both librarians also published articles about library users’ psychology and women’s social role. They were socially active up to their death in a very old age. A kind of rivalry between them turned political after Soviet army invaded Estonia. Mall Jürma, who had emigrated to the United States of America, worked for the Estonian-language radio station, Voice of America, introduced Estonian literature to English-speaking and German-speaking readers and was active in refugee organisations with an end to liberate Estonia. Helene Johani was employed at nomenclatural posts in the Estonian SSR and implemented Soviet practice of librarianship in her native country.
NOTA BENE!
New Estonian Standards - Endla Sandberg, Margit Jõgi
The piece introduces EVS-EN ISO 3166-1:2007, Maade ja nende jaotiste nimetuste tähised. Osa 1: Maatähised (Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes), and EVS-ISO 2789:2007, Informatsioon ja dokumentatsioon. Rahvusvaheline raamatukogustatistika (Information and documentation – International library statistics), that replaces the so-far valid standard EVS-EN ISO 2789:2003.
Standardisation Experts Met in Spain - Janne Andresoo
An overview of the plenary session of ISO/TC 46 Information and Documentation, and of annual meetings of subcommittees No 4, 8, 9 and 11 and meetings of their working groups, held on 7–10 May 2007 in 2007 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
LIBRARY MANAGEMENT
Statistical Data Versus the Results of Service Quality Surveys - Margit Jõgi, Kate-Riin Kont
The article aims to find possibilities, how to connect objective data of library statistics with subjective evaluations, gained by user surveys, with an end to evaluate library performance in a totally new way. The objects analysed are the collections of the National Library of Estonia and access to these. Acquisition costs (including costs of acquiring electronic documents), collection using statistics, visiting statistics, placing and executing interlibrary loan requests in 2004, 2005 and 2006 have been compared to readers’ evaluations of the access to professional literature and lacking documents in the collection (interlibrary lending service), access to electronic journals and databases, based on the user survey performed in the autumn of 2006.
Assessing Estonian Central Public Libraries Efficiency, Using Data Envelopment Analysis - Konrad Kikas, Peep Miidla
Linear programming Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to determine the relative efficiency of twenty central public libraries in Estonia. Efficiency is defined as whether or not a library could reduce the inputs it uses proportionately, and still produce the same output. Four input measures – expenditure on acquisition, expenditure on salaries, total holdings and building space and two output categories – the number of users and the number of circulations – were analysed. Statistical data of the years 2002–2005 was used as the basis.
The results of the study indicate that in the four-year period 40% of central public libraries have the efficiency score 1.0, that is, eight of libraries, which were under consideration, used their resources effectively. The score of efficiency of other twelve libraries ranged from 0.740 to 0.979. The four-year data shows the declining trend of efficiency – the average efficiency of those twelve libraries fell from 0.947 in 2002 to 0.847 in 2005.
BIBLIOPHILISM
How I Was Turned into a Bibliophile - Küllo Arjakas
A pondering uponhome libraries and bibliophilism. The author also reveals the story of acquiring certain bibliophile publications.
The Importance of Auction Bills - Ilmar Vaaro
Approximately five hundred unique publications that have been registered neither in the General List of Estonian Books nor in other bibliographies have turned up in the book auctions, which have been organised in the newly independent Estonia. First lately organised book auctions were held in 1988. Several institutions have been involved in organising auctions. At present Tarmo Kolk has been the major organiser of such events in Tallinn. His book auction on the 12 th of May 2007 was the 38 th in the row. The University of Tartu’s Bookstore organised its tenth auction in November 2006.
The total amount of books in Estonian, published during the first period of Estonian statehood, can largely be evaluated up to 36,887, or roundly 37,000.
ESTONIAN LIBRARIANS’ ASSOCIATION
The Pros and Cons of Computer Age - Piia Selge
An overview of a summer seminar for school librarians, reasoned by the need to analyse the pros and cons of using computers, held from the 15th up to the 17th of August.
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS
Inhouse Communication – a Key to the Heart of Employees - Triin Soone
An overview of the summer seminar for research libraries, held from the 11th up to the 12th of September. The seminar focused on the inhouse communication within a library organisation and treated information management, control and possibilities to avoid information noise.
NEWS
Fictional Walks at Nõmme - Maie Eisma
An overview of a fictional walk on the sites at Nõmme, described in a book by Erika Aulik, Viru tänav ja teised (Viru Street and Others), organised by Tallinn Männiku Library.
Tallinn City Government Awards the Medal of the Magistrate to Merited Persons
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Tallinn Central Library, Tallinn City Government awards four employees of the library – Anne-Marie Ivask, Reet Artemjev, Katrin Paalme and Ljudmilla Kapatsõna – with the Medal of the Magistrate.
Philatelic Event in the Library
Tallinn Central Library issued a complete set of a postage stamp and the first day stamp on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
Aurika Gergeležiu Was Elected a Vice-President of the IAML - Katre Riisalu
Aurika Gergeležiu, the Chief Bibliographer of the Fine Arts Information Centre of the National Library of Estonia, was elected for three years a vice-president of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres at IAML’s General Assembly, held from the 1 st up to the 6 th of July in Australia.
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