June 06, 2005
Navarra public libraries collective catalogue
There are more and more regions (Comunidades Autónomas) that offer collective catalogues of their public libraries. Navarra joins to the already existing networks and, through its institutional portal, it offers the service La biblioteca pública en casa (Public Library at home) that lets the consultation of the library funds in the Navarra General Library and other 39 municipal libraries more. The catalogue consultation, as usual, involves a library loaning service among the members of the network. In the same way, a directory of Navarra public libraries is offered, with data about their localization and opening.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Library networks | Published: June 06, 2005
March 17, 2005
Basque public libraries collective cataloge
The Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas de Euskadi (Euskadi Public Libraries Nacional System) has a collective catalogue that lets the consultation of funds from 130 public libraries in País Vasco. The Collective Catalogue includes the possibility of making reservations and asking for loans of works from any of the libraries of the network.
The 17th March 2005 Diario Vasco edition offered the news in detail, after the press conference of the Consejera de Cultura, Miren Azkarate, in which she also announced the coming Euskadi National Library. The news of this medium was as follows:
“A unique membership card will serve to access through the Internet to the online network that form 130 libraries from 109 Basque municipalities and has a database of 500.000 registers. Consulting the funds of all the libraries and having access to a loan service are some of the advantages of this new system online carried out by the Departamento de Cultura del Gobierno Vasco that want to incorporate the 270 public libraries to the network by the end of the year.
The Euskadi Libraries network online (www.liburutegiak.euskadi.net/katalogobateratua) is one of the previous steps to the future Euskadi National Library, whose legal draft could be approbed by the regional executive before summer, as the Consejera de Cultura Miren Azkarate said yesterday. At the moment, San Sebatián and Bilbao will not join the future Network of Library Networks untill 2006 because they have imcompatible management programmes.
Among the main advantages of the online network, Miren Azkarate remarked the membership card common for all the libraries, that will facilitate the possibility of using the services of any centre, and consulting and making the loan of the library funds from their home through the PC, with a card scanner that will be given when they subscribe to the system. Besides, according to the Consejera de Cultura, new services for the users will be given, as the material loan service among libraries.
The starting of the Library network online has meant, among other activities, the elaboration of manuals for librarians and the offer of courses for library professionals.
Colletive catalogue
Adding to this network, the Basque Government project includes the creation of a Collective Catalogue of País Vasco Public Libraries, in which the public libraries and the libraries of Basque university, Deusto and Mondragón participate; Santuario de Loyola and Seminario de Vitoria, and the libraries in the Diputaciones and departamentos in País Vasco, among others.
This catalogue, updated three or four times a year and with a million registers, will be accessible for librarians and the rest of users. Its web is: www.liburutegiak.euskadi.net/bilgunea. Azkarate thought that the creation of this network is as important as the construction of an “emblematic building” for the Basque National Library, whose location will be known in autumn, once the Ley de Bibliotecas is approbed in the Parlamento Vasco.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Library networks | Published: March 17, 2005
October 16, 2003
New public reading union catalogue
The Junta de Andalucía has put the union catalogue of the Andalusian public libraries network online, from which you can seek in the collections of almost 150 centres at the same time. This new resource adds to the different public libraries union catalogues in several Spanish (Comunidades Autónomas) regions. In the section of Networks and union catalogues (Library Typology) of the Spanish public libraries and the whole world directory you can find the links to this type of catalogues existing in Spain at the moment. Likewise, from the Links section of CBUC web you can get access to union catalogues from the whole world.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Library networks | Published: October 16, 2003
