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Digitized metropolitan's heritagediverse roles of Zagreb City Libraries' digital collections
Jagoda IlleIsmena Meić
about Digitized Zagreb Heritage library collections roles of Digitized Zagreb Heritage collection realization of digital collection’s roles conclusion
Zagreb City Libraries’ collections public library enables use of diverse materials through
collecting, expert processing and storing distinguished special collections: Local History
Collection Zagrabiensia, Croatian Centre for Children's Books, Rare books and manuscripts collection - RARA, Periodicals collection, Music Department of the City Library of Zagreb
a variety of valuable and unique documents and publications about Zagreb's and Croatia's past, available for loan only at the library's premises
Digitized Zagreb Heritage project in 2008, Zagreb City Libraries started to develop a digital
collection entitled Digitized Zagreb Heritage through the thematic projects
first project: Illuminating a Part of Our Heritage: Zagreb at the Threshold of Modern Age
current results by 15 library experts and two cooperative companies: web site with free access to more than 1.700 pages of books, printed music and ephemera, as well as some 30 photographs and postcards and one Zagreb city plan
near future: more than 2,000 pages of books, serials and graphics along with several gramophone records are digitized and will be available through the new digitization project Editions of 17th and 18th century printers in Zagreb
Digitized Zagreb Heritage web site access data 11/2008 – 5/2010
10.578 unique users 92.883 hits
web site linked and presented through national project Croatian Cultural Heritage
Web site access
other 12,93%
Serbia and Montenegro
1,10%
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1,25%
Germany 2,19%
USA 10,54%
Croatia 69,32%
Japan 2,17%
Library Collections library collection – way of organizing diverse and extensive
library material
criteria:
publication frequency (monographs, periodicals)
material type (manuscripts, rare books, graphics, cartographic material, music, photography...)
subject (local history, ecology...)
...
reference collections
textbook collections
personal donations
Library Collections’ roles : general collections connected to library’s mission and
role fulfiling library collections’ roles (Buckland, 1992):
preservation role dispensing role bibliographic role symbolic role
changing roles in digital collections
Digitized Zagreb Heritage collection’s roles specific roles were defined from the begining of digitization project’s design
groups of roles according to the following criteria:
user: remote access, multiple access, entertainment; establishing trust, validity and authority for our resources on the otherwise value-neutral internet (Saracevic, 2001)
service: new service, faster service, advertising other library services
economy: reduction of digitization on demand, minimizing storage space
information: supporting scientific and personal research, providing additional information for tourists, contribution to common cultural space, virtual reunification of material that has been dislocated or virtual aggregation of dispersed material pertaining to a specific subject
education: educating the patrons/librarians about new technologies, supporting lifelong education
priorities to be set through further studies
Realization of digital collection’s roles
realization of roles depends on steps taken before and during the collection’s development and throughout it’s lifespan
material selection aplication of digital collection development standards securing the service sustainability quality interface design
Realization of digital collection’s roles, cont.
expert material selection preservation; frequent loans; local, regional and global
information value; audio-visual attractiveness; intellectual rights digital collection development standards
accessibility, sustainability and interoperability through universal bibliographic control, classification and subject indexing, colophon, ISBN/ISMN, guidelines by national project “Croatian Cultural Heritage”
service sustainability present projects are fundation of the future Digital Library, a
new branch of Zagreb City Libraries: securing the financial resources, digitization material, continual preservation of digital masters, quality metadata production, educated staff
Realization of digital collection’s roles, cont.
Interface design presentation
digital collection design depends on collection’s objectives and target “audience”
general objectives: online access, wider usage, preservation
target users: traditional public library users – local citizens + remote users of all age groups and education levels
interface developed in cooperation with ArhivPRO company
browsing:
pages of downloadable JPG format reproductions through Microsoft Silverlight plugin (used by the British Library
in "Turning the Pages” program) - the Silverlight interface makes user capable of distinguishing between details
Realization of digital collection’s roles, cont.
Interface design
our electronic editions are in fact idealized:
some of them had been created by scanning more copies of the original
the pages have been cleared from traces of wear and tear, all in good measure and with due respect for the age of the original
the use of this virtual copy in fact imitates the “physical handling” of a real antiquated book
images can easily be zoomed in or out, rotated, viewed in their tiniest details – additional information in comparison with original
material "object" impression preserved through detailed reproduction of book covers and binding
Realization of digital collection’s roles, cont.
Interface design interactive indexes and simple search have been created in
order to improve the user's orientation in larger digital publications
virtual objects in digital collections thus in many ways more informative than their originals
Realization of digital collection’s roles, cont.
Digitized Zagreb Heritage collections as the narratives supporting the lifelong learning in a cultural setting (Mulholland, Collins, 2002):
pilot project Illuminating a Part of Our Heritage: Zagreb at the Threshold of Modern Age
story about croatian capital city, it’s prominent associations, known locations, parks, institutions and famous citizens of Zagreb: 1860’s-1900’s
production of chronological presentation of narrative “Zagreb at the threshold of modern age” and virtual exhibition containing a timeline with all digitized documents are in progress (example)
Conclusion valuable project - recognized within the Croatian cultural and
information spheres
digital collection's organization, prezentation and use of resources - accepted by our users
new: approach to collection building, principles of learning and perception, standards, "broadening the field of struggle"
ahead of us:
ongoing process – testing, user research, evaluation and improvement
collaboration with regional and global projects (for example thematic network Europeana.eu)
future digitization projects: preservation of valuable heritage, new services, new user groups, promotion and image building of public librarianship...
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