Some economic calculations on collection access — print

Some economic calculations on collection access - print Kuopio 13. 5. 2004 Pentti Vattulainen

Finnish University Libraries - vision (Structural Development of University Libraries, Min. Edu 2000) Finnish University Library (collaborative level) University Libraries – National Library – Repository Library – CSC Bibliografic data; material resources; EDB-services; development USERS University Libraries (local level)

Performance of ILL in Nordic Academic libraries (2000) Home loans DK Incoming ILL requests 657. 085 4. 803. 839 13, 7% FI 172. 061 9. 794. 607 1, 8% IS NO 9. 614 485. 074 163. 839 3. 806. 898 5, 9% 13, 7% SE 659. 533 6. 469. 739 10, 2% 2. 024. 997 25. 038. 921 8, 1% Nordic %

National Repository Library • founded 1989 (also other countries) • functions: – receive material from libraries – store – keep available • Ministry of Education, Research Unit • serves all libraries free of charge

To receive • transfers 4 -7 km / year • 3/2004: 83 km material has been received • monographs 33 km • serials 45, 5 km • mainly from Finnish research libraries (86%) – incl. doctoral dissertations (4 km)

To store • cost-effective storage: 15, 68 shelf meters / sq meter (standard 13, 81) • storage development – Norway – CAPM / Johns Hopkins University

Keep available • 2, 5 million volumes of monographs and serials (49, 5 shelf km) • 90 % transferred from research libraries • delivery free of charge • data in the Union Catalogue “Linda” of university libraries (Voyager-software)

Keep available • 14, 8% of the collections of university libraries (2002) • 20, 2% of the serial collections of university libraries (2002) • deduplication 49, 5/83 shelf km • Norway: legal deposit interlending copy

Use of material • • 63. 000 requests loans: 50 % public libraries copies: 90 % to research libraries fill rate 98%

Costs for the NRL • 1, 35 million euros • + investments • 6, 8 % of the acquisition budgets of university libraries • 1, 6 % of total budget of university libraries

Savings • • transferred material: 82. 700 shelve meters open collection 3, 61 shm / m 2 local storage 7, 11 shm / m 2 rent of library space / square metre e. g. in Kuopio University Library is 9. 47 € • -> 2, 5 mill. and 1, 3 mill. euros / year • -> university libraries 1, 3 mill. euros

Future • Evaluation of NRL 2004 -2005 – International panel / experts – national evaluation team