NALIS – The Bulgarian Way to a Digital Library

Dincho Krastev, Director of CL-BAS and Executive Director of NALISF

WDL, Muenchen, 14-15 November 2011

DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECTS AT CL-BAS

Non-EU projects: WDL Exchange of Bibliography Records of Bulgarian

Publications – joint project with the Library of Congress, USA

LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) – joint project with the Library of Congress, USA

Machine-Readable Description and Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts – joint project with the British Library, UK

The Russian Emigration in Bulgaria 1878-2008 – joint project with Ruskii Mir Foundation, Russia

DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECTS AT CL-BAS

EU Projects:MICHAELATHENACARARELinked Heritage

Local Projects:NALISItalian Traces in Bulgaria

Author: Dincho Krastev Funded by: America for Bulgaria Foundation Period: June 2009 - June 2014 Founders:

- Central Library of BAS (2 mil items), - Sofia University (2 mil items),- American University in Bulgaria (102 447 items)

The total number of items kept in academic libraries in Bulgaria is ca. 15 mil.

The NALIS Project

Goals

Union catalogue of the universities and research libraries in Bulgaria – done and being enlarged

Unification of the level of automation of the academic libraries – done for the associate members

Increasing the level of quality – ongoing

The NALIS Project

Stages

Online union catalogue of the founding libraries (completed Sept 2010)

Enlarging the catalogue with retroconverted records from the founding libraries (ongoing)

Enlarging of the catalogue with bib records of the founding libraries (ongoing)

The NALIS Project

Achievements1 mil records in the NALIS Union Catalogue

(1/5 of the national holdings in terms of library items):- user friendly and easy to operate with

- bilingual interface (BG, ENG)- giving free and quick access to bib information (the patron may choose where to read) and the resources themselves- proposing the opportunity to refine search results (by topic, creator or date)

300 000 retroconverted records

The NALIS Project

Achievements 2 digital collections:

- ca. 750 titles of 19th-century Bulgarian books and periodicals (more than 1000 digital objects);- ca 400 letters (Salvini Archive)

The digital collections can be easily integrated to WDL

MARC 21 Bibliographic translated in 2011 and uploaded online

3 library dictionaries published on the NALIS website

11 associate members

The NALIS Project

NALISF Associate Members

The NALIS Project

HOW TO INTERPRET THE FIGURES- everything is done from scratch:

the largest union catalogue prior NALIS UC had 310 000 bib records and was not easily accessible

- by a handful of people (the NALIS team was 3 people in 2009-2010 and 4 people in 2011)

- Bulgaria is a small country- the founding libraries increased their electronic bib

records (SU with over 200 000, CL-BAS – ca 60 000)

Advantages - No new buildings- Minimal expenses after the initial investment in

hardware and software- No new staff- More patrons- Quicker and easier access to information

resources- Popularisation of a library

Thank you!