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FIRST COLUMN
Our domestic cultural space, our mental rear - Kristel Pappel
An essay about the importance of music libraries. The library is like an intellectual treasury that connects our thoughts and understandings with the wider (musical) cultural space and, therefore, unavoidable for education.
THE ESTONIAN MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 20
The Estonian Music Library Association turns 20: the evolution and revolution - Kaie Viigipuu-Kreintaal
The EMLA was founded on the 12th of November 1991 with the aim to establish and promote cooperation between music libraries and to support the interests of profession. Since 1994 it is the National Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML). The association has its own Web page, located on www.luts.ee/emky. Since 2005 the EMLA has actively participated in resolving copyright problems. In 2008 we achieved an amendment in the Copyright Act that now allows outside loan of sound recordings. Loaning of video-recordings is, unfortunately, still limited.
In the future, a music library might have a right to acquire sound recordings in the electronic form like e-books are acquired today, and then lend these by down loaning or streaming, and the copyright owners would get, in turn, their compensation.
On the occasion of the EMLA’s 20th anniversary, a conference was held in the Organ Hall of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre on the 27th of October 2011. The papers treated a wide scale of subjects, ranging from the history of sound carriers and music collections up to the present problems and future dreams of music libraries. A selection of papers is presented in the current journal issue.
Public libraries’ music collections: their current situation and development
The membership of the EMLA, fifteen in total, includes seven public libraries, and these are certainly not the only public libraries that have a music collection, and the demands for the music collection differ locally. The following provides an overview of active Estonian music libraries outside Tallinn.
The Music and Fine Arts Reading Room of Harju County Library - Merle Hansen
The Music Reading Room of Harju County Library has been opened to the public since 1997. During its fourteen years of existence, the little reading room has developed into a somewhat larger Music and Fine Arts Reading Room, which collection includes periodicals, sheet music, sound recordings, and video recordings in addition to music and art books. If everything goes well, then we will be happy to move into new premises in a wing of Keila School in the beginning of the next year of 2012. Keila music school was also recently opened in the building complex of Keila School. The closeness with the School and music school would provide better future cooperation opportunities for the library as well.
From the music corner to the modernised provider of music information: the Music Reading Room of Lääne-Viru County Central Library - Rita Tammetalu
Our music reading room was founded in 1999. Today it functions as a part of Special Literature Reading Room. The collection includes over 7,500 music documents, placed on open shelves. The number of loans and the proportion of readers/listeners has increased every year. Perhaps local situation has somewhat brought it about: our last record store in the county’s centre was closed. As the CD towers on the wheels of the music reading room are easily movable, the room is also available for organising music events. Our good cooperation partners include leaning institutions, musical collectives, the theatre, community centre among numerous others.
The Music Department of Pärnu Central Library forms an essential part of cultural and music life in Pärnu - Ene Roost
In 1995, the Music Department was opened to the public in Pärnu Central Library. The key events in the development of the Department involve the use of modern information technology. The Internet possibilities, provided by the Library, offer the readers everything, they are used to access at home, including the availability to listen music in two computers, and purchasing it as downloads that is, indeed, quick and easy.
The Library’s Music Department has turned out to be a meeting place for the music lovers of Pärnu. The users of the collection include both citizens who love music, as well as the organisers of local music life. The right to lend sound recordings for using outside the Library’s premises, the replenished sheet music collection, and a newly erected library building almost doubled the number of loans in 2008. Since 2010, we also welcome our music lovers with an electronic list, Muusikakogu uudiskiri, that lists new items in our collection.
Invincibly in the town’s cultural life: the Music Department of Tartu Public Library - Meery Salu
In this autumn, thirty-five years passed from the initial music event in Tartu Public Library, after previously building the sound recordings collection in five years. This also marks the birth of our Music Department. In 1997, a remarkable Music Department emerged on the basis of the sound recording collection of a branch library. In 2002, we started to build up a video collection, and from the year of 2003, we also lend video-recordings. This service met positive reception since the first minutes it was launched. Video-recordings that are not easy to find from the lists of ordinary video rentals (high quality movies, recordings of musicals) have proved to be in the right place in the library collection. The next logical step after setting up a video collection was to organise amateur movie festivals in 2005–2008. Today, everybody can visit the library also in his/her home. The online electronic catalogue ESTER provides an opportunity to get a complete overview of the availability of all information carriers and to place an order round the clock.
Treasures from the history of Estonian sound recording - Katre Riisalu
This year, a hundred and ten years passed from releasing the first Estonian sound recording. During the year, several events took place at the National Library of Estonia to celebrate this cause, important for the history of culture. In the beginning of the year, the Library exposed a capacious display about the history of Estonian sound recording. In autumn, a book on the discography of Estonian vinyl recordings, released between 1954 and 2010, Eesti vinüülplaatide diskograafia 1954–2010, was published and, concurrent with that, a large exhibition of Estonian vinyl recordings, which also provided a listening opportunity, was displayed for a month. Katre Riisalu made several exciting discoveries, while preparing the material for the exhibitions and studying the National Library’s sound recording collection. These are the facts about domestic and foreign sound production she introduces in her article.
The Music Department of the National Library of Estonia, established in 1959, provides today over 8,000 sound recordings – an enjoyable collection for making discoveries.
Pattern language: sound recordings in public libraries - Tiina Kriisa
Patterns and pattern language – the means to solve problems in a structually described way – are one of the possibilities for organising, maintaining and reusing the knowledge. The author of the piece has studied the use of pattern language in describing library problems and finding solutions to these. The concurrent output to the research “Sound recordings in public libraries” is a viki that includes examples of the patterns, which were designed in the course of work and are freely accessible in Wikispaces.com environment on the Internet address http://auvisemustrid.wikispaces.com/. Thirty-one patterns that are linked to each other were designed in the course of study. The created patterns cannot provide solutions to all the issues concerning sound recordings and this was not the goal of the study. However, the designed pattern language proves the viability of potential use of the method of patterns.
PERSONAGE
Nothing in this world is irreplaceable or everlasting, except for the music: an interview with Pirjo Hakuni - Heikki Poroila
Pirjo Hakuni, a long-standing Head of the Music Department of Tampere City Library, retired in November 2011 after fourty-five years of service. The Finnish Library Association awarded her with Mikko Mäkela Prize in October this year and a long interview with her about her long life was published in a music libraries’ journal, Intervalli, 2/2011. As Pirjo Hakuni has been an initiator and keeper of the ties between Finnish and Estonian music libraries, we also introduce the interview to the Estonian public. In 1996, she worked at the National Library of Estonia, providing her expertise and help to the colleagues here.
NOTA BENE
The library network is among the strongest systems in Estonia - Ene Riet
An abstract of Rein Lang’s, the Estonian Minister of Culture, speech at the opening of Library Days on the 20th of October in Paide, which, was focused upon the issues of Estonian library network, the acquisition of Estonian literature, and facilitating public libraries with new hardware. The Estonian Librarians’ Association replied to the Minister’s speech with an address speech that we will also publish.
The ELA’s position regarding Rein Lang’s, the Minister of Culture, proposals how to revise the libraries’ work organisation
The address speech states: as the answers to the issues raised by the Minister determine the future of Estonian librarianship, individual libraries and, in the long run, every librarian, the Estonian Librarians’ Association will wish to participate in finding the solutions to the matters. A broad discussion should be initiated before taking action.
INFORMATION COMPETENCY
About introducing information competency in the society - Krista Lepik
Libraries have a major role in the information society: not merely to provide access to their outstanding collection, but also to provide knowledge and skills how to acquire information that is needed in everyday life, how to evaluate it critically, and how to use it capably.
Information competency via e-learning facilities: the model of Tartu University Library - Kärt Miil, Vilve Seiler
Information competency is regarded as a vital key competency that is necessary for active participation in the modern society. Information competency as a transferable skill enables to enhance university graduates’ competitiveness on the labour market and helps them to become life-long learners. Libraries strive to improve the students’ information competence skills in every possible way. We first decided to draw up the information competency basic course and, henceforth, by all means integrate information competency teaching into subjects and curricula for developing the awareness of the necessity of information competency in the university and drawing attention towards it as a possible subject. The feedback reveals that good information retrieval skills are not common among the students, but those who participated in the course could see its advantage for the research. In 2009, a course was completed that targeted senior students of upper secondary schools. The learning materials of the course have been tailored in cooperation with upper secondary school teachers, but the thematics, structure, goals and activities have remained unchanged. Both students, as well as the teachers learn together at the same course.
The experiment with the information professionals’ information retrieval habits on the Internet - Kristiina Singer
The during the finals of national Estonian information search competition, held in the October of 2010 at Tartu University Library, an experiment to study information professionals’ online information retrieval habits was carried out. The present article casts light on the background and results of the experiment. The examples of questions asked and strategies for information retrieval and recommendations for successful information search on the Internet are also provided.
Library experiences from Venezuela: information competency and information science - Juan D. Machin Mastromatteo
The author introduces Venezuelan librarians, librarianship, and his personal experiences from participating in Venezuelan information literacy programme. After he landed up in Tallinn University within the framework of the DILL programme, he closed information behaviour and social networks for the subject of his Master’s thesis.
ESTONIAN LIBRARIANS’ ASSOCIATION
Everyone can come and stay - Nelli Orgmaa
The 8th National Children’s Librarians Day was held on the 21st of September in Tallinn at Haabersti Recreational Centre, which also houses Nurmenuku Branch of Tallinn Central Library. The audience listened to the reports, and the best children’s librarian of 2011 was announced. It is Tiina Lutter from Tartu Public Library.
Special libraries at Mõdriku and in Rakvere - Merike Vilgo
A study trip to the Library of Lääne-Viru College.
Visting the Library of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences - Katrin Gottlob
The Special Libraries’ Information Day on the 30th of September provided much information.
What does a library user actually expect from the library - Ene Riet
On the 21st of October, librarians met on the 4th Research and Special Libraries’ Day at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
On the reporting day, the ELA Prize for the Deed of the Year in Research and Special Libraries in 2011 was also awarded. Urmas Sinisalu, a project manager at the National Library of Estonia and an IT specialist for the Estonian Libraries Network Consortium, got the prize in the category of research libraries. The prize for the deed of the year in special libraries went to Maio Vaniko, a librarian at the Institute of Journalism and Communication of the University of Tartu.
Let’s meet at the library! - Ene Riet
The 21st Library Days were opened at Paide Cultural Centre on the 20th of October. The reporting day included a speech, held by Rein Lang, the Minister of Culture. His bold ideas, how to organise the libraries’ work, together with the ELA’s response to these are to be found from the page 22 of this journal issue.
Further on, reading, writing and emotions were under discussion.
On the second half of the day, a quiz was held . Thirteen teams participated. Rapla county team was the best; Tartu Public Library’s team got the second place, and Kohtla-Järve Central Library – the third place.
Ewa Roots (Urd) from Tartu Public Library won the Librarians’ Information Search Competition of 2011 - Halliki Jürma, Ülo Treikelder
This year, Tartu Public Library organised the annual librarians’ information search competition that logically resumed in helding the 2nd round, that is, the finals also in Tartu. Ten best competitors of the 1st round were selected to participate in the finals. Fifteen questions asked in the finals were more complicated and obviously demanding better concentration.
The best school librarian of 2011 - Kristel Rannaääre
Tiia Ojanurm, the Head of the Library of Põlva Joint Upper Secondary School, was announced to be the best school librarian of 2011. The prize was handed over to her together with the award of acknowledgement, granted by the Cultural Endowment, on the Information Day on the 21st of November.
Culture and bearers of culture in Virumaa - Irma Raatma
The 9th Rural Librarians’ Day that focused on cultural issues was held at Sõmeru.
By the end of the day, the best rural librarian of the year was announced. Piia Salundi from Sauga Library in Pärnu County was elected the best rural library of the year.
NEWS
In memoriam: a man, who had a lot to share
Kaljo-Olev Veskimägi (15 July 1930 – 15 November 2011), a long-standing lecturer, the researcher of the history of libraries and promoter of librarianship, an assistant professor emeritus of Tallinn University.
In memoriam: Helle Remmelt (30 August 1942 – 28 November 2011), a longstanding librarian of NLE.
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