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FIRST COLUMN
Competive also as a Provider of Online Services - Janne Andresoo
The users’ ever-growing need for digital information currently influences the development of research libraries the most; it involves archiving, maintaining and long-term preserving both digitally born as well as digitised publications. Libraries are proving themselves as competitive online service providers. Providing access to the databases via e-library gateway, the function currently supported by various interfaces, is the development priority of the National Library of Estonia.
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ESTONIA – 90
Users Will Soon Start to Favour the Search Possibilities of e-Library - Heli Kuusik, Sirje Nilbe, Külli Solo, Kristel Veimann
Developing electronic services has been a priority of the National Library. The present article mostly focuses on the generation and provision of secondary information. It also reviews the Library’s electronic catalogue ESTER that is being developed in cooperation with other member libraries of the Estonian Library Network Consortium (ELNET); the catalogue has been fully operational since 1998. The piece introduces the Web site of the National Library and a virtual library development project, “The Subject Gateway of the National Library”, launched in 2001. The gateway draws together systematized records of Internet pages in the fields of the humanities and social sciences, both free as well as paid databases and online publications. The authors describe bibliographic databases, generated by the Library, and unfold the scope of application of the national bibliography database, international databases and The European Library.
From the Darkness to the Daylight without Damaging the Original - Liina Enok, Krista Kiisa
Library as an institution is compelled to fulfil two antipodal tasks: to preserve and to provide access. In the 21st century, digitisation helps to provide access to the collection without damaging the originals. A carefully elaborated and properly accomplished digitisation and description of digital files enables to use the generated digital collection for decades. The article provides an overview of the essence of digital materials, explains the selection criteria for digitising the material in the National Library of Estonia’s collection and collections of digitally born materials, and characterises the most important archives.
Preservation of National Print Production - Mari Siiner
The National Library of Estonia’s collection preservation development plan up to 2010 founds the basis for organising the Library’s preservation activities. In addition to limited resources, the specialities of preservation are largely determined by the peculiarities, size and condition of the collections as well as their use, and by the availability of national printed matter. In the recent years microfilming and digitisation offer additional means for preserving originals in the Library’s collection. Unfortunately, reproduction does not solve all the problems related to the preservation of originals.
The Symbol of the Independent State and Unanimity of the Nation - Tiiu Valm
The new building of the National Library of Estonia was opened to the public in 1993. During the years of restoring the independent Republic of Estonia, the Library relatively swiftly became a symbol of the independent state and unanimity of the nation, and the Library’s building turned into the symbol, too. In the late 1990s the meaning of the Library as a locus also started to alter due to the development of information technology. Its building has been constantly renovated according to the new concepts of library and library services, taking into account the changing needs of library users, their mobility, provision of digital information and versatile development of library services.
How Traditions are Born - Triin Soone
The National Library of Estonia values traditions in its activities. Good traditions are born in cooperation with the men of culture and cultural institutions. The article provides an overview of artistic and literary events that form an integral part of modern Estonian cultural life: the exhibition of Estonian modern graphic art and concurrently awarded art prize, the Eduard Viiralt Prize; annual competition for selecting twenty-five most beautiful books and five most beautiful books for children that values the creative work of Estonian book designers and illustrators (at the opening of the competition’s exhibition the special prize for the best book design, The Golden Book, is awarded) etc.
A Successful Bookplate Competition - Õnne Mets
On the 8th of September 2008 the National Library of Estonia announced the call for entries to the first bookplate competition for children, My Book 2008. The submitted works impressed both in volume as well as for the level of performance. The jury selected the winner and ten outstanding bookplates in every age group – from the works of primary school, basic school and upper secondary school pupils – that were exhibited and published in the catalogue.
Lifelong Learning has a Key Role - Krista Talvi
Besides Tallinn University’s Department of Information Studies and Viljandi Culture Academy of the University of Tartu, the National Library of Estonia has been providing further training for librarians for decades already.
NOTA BENE!
The Dictionary of Library Terms in the New Form - Siiri Lauk
The design of the dictionary of library terms published on the Web site of the National Library of Estonia has been modernised. The dictionary is available at the Web address http://www.nlib.ee/termin/. As for its content, the dictionary is based the database maintained by the Library Section of the National Library of Estonia and includes over 4,000 terms in the fields of librarianship, bibliography, book science, information technology and other fields related to librarianship that have been discussed and approved by the Committee on Terminology of the Estonian Librarians’ Association. The database is regularly updated.
RESEARCH LIBRARIES
Funding of Major Research Libraries in 2007: Revenue and Expenditure - Kate-Riin Kont
The economic pressure and the decision of the Government of the Republic of Estonia to reduce expenditure in the state budget in 2008 forces to seek means and possibilities how to rationalise the activities of research libraries. The present article aims to analyse the financing principles of research libraries that belong to Estonian public administration system and possible reasons why joint acquisition plan of research libraries as an agreement between libraries is not effective. Closer look is taken at the division of revenue and expenditure of four major research libraries – the National Library of Estonia, Tartu University Library, Library of the Tallinn University of Technology and the Academic Library of Tallinn University – in 2007.
EX LIBRIS
From Contamination and Incubation up to the Era of Digital Ex Libris - Hanno Lepik
Collecting bookplates in Estonia has not been thoroughly studied to this day. Rein Loodus, our most outstanding researcher of book culture, has written several concise articles about it, but no comprehensive study has not been published yet. The article provides an observation of the development of Estonian ex libris from the point of view of the collector of bookplates. The author divides the Estonian art of ex libris design into five periods of time.
An Important Reference Book about Ex Libris - Mait Talts
Collector of bookplates, Hanno Lepik, has compiled a List of Estonian Bookplates and published it as a computer printout in several dozens of copies in 2008. In principle, the publication maps bookplates designed and produced by Estonian artists, as it includes data about 32,200 bookplates starting from 1989.
ESTONIAN LIBRARIANS’ ASSOCIATION
The Library Days were Opened at Rannu in Tartu County - Ene Riet
An overview of the opening ceremony of the Library Days, held on 20–30 October. The Minister of Culture, Laine Jänes, participated in the ceremony. This year, the slogan of the Library Days was “It counts, what you count”.
The Best Knowers of Literature Come from Tartu Again
Fifteen teams participated in the quiz to test librarians’ memory on the 20th of October in Rannu Community Centre. Already for many years at a run the winner was Tartu Public Library team (Tiina Tarik, Piret Kiivit and Ädu Neemre).
The competition “Information Search on the Internet” was Won by Krõõt Kaljusto-Munck from Tartu Public Library - Katrin Bobrov
The competition, already tenth in its turn, was held during the Library Days. On the 27th of October the final took place at Tallinn University of Technology. The winners were Krõõt Kaljusto-Munck from Tartu Public Library, Krista Lepik from the University of Tartu, and Pille Lepik from the National Library of Estonia.
From Now on Research and Special Libraries Celebrate their Own Day and Award the Prize of the Deed of the Year - Kristina Rallmann
An overview the 1st Day for Research and Special Librarians, held on the 22nd of October at Tallinn School of Economics.
The Best Rural Librarians were Announced at the Rural Librarians’ Day - Ene Riet
An overview of the 8th Rural Librarians’ Day, held on the 30th of October in Viljandi.
Eighty Librarians were Awarded Professional Qualifications
The list of librarians to whom the ELA Professional Qualifications Committee decided to award professional qualifications.
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS
Estonian Libraries Discovering Web 2.0 - Toomas Schvak
An overview of the summer seminar for research librarians, “Web 2.0 and libraries – possibilities and solutions”, held on the 26–27 of August 2008 at Viinistu Cultural and Conference Centre. It focused on the discussion about the need and possibilities to implement new Web solutions.
Time, when Local Governments Consider Merger - Krista Talvi
An overview the summer seminar for public librarians “Rural life development plan” that treated merger of libraries, held on 6–8 August.
The Oskar Kallas Day at the Archival Library of the Estonian Literary Museum - Olga Sudajeva
An overview of Oskar Kallas Day, the 22nd Conference of Estonian Book Science dedicated to Estonian calendars, held on the 23rd of October at the Archival Library of the Estonian Literary Museum.
NEWS
From Now on, there is a Department of Information Education at the Viljandi Culture Academy of the University of Tartu - Lembe Lahtmaa
News about innovations related to the provision of library education in the Viljandi Culture Academy of the University of Tartu.
Tallinn Central Library Presents Every 1st Class Pupil in Tallinn with a Book, Omad jutud (Our Own Stories) - Anneli Kengsepp
In 2008 Tallinn Central Library published a collection, Omad jutud, that comprises the best stories and poems submitted to the story competition for children in the years 2003–2008. 3,550 children who went to the 1st class in Tallinn this autumn were presented with the book.
In Memoriam: Hain Tankler (1945–2008) –a long-standing librarian at Tartu University Library, who published five monographs and over seventy scholarly articles.
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