Repository Libraries: on history, need, and experiences Kuopio Pentti Vattulainen

Thomas Mann "to spend enormous amounts of money assembling book collections and then to make access to them only superficial, partial, incomplete, and haphazard is to throw money away rather than to use it prudently."

Repository library “The function of a repository is to ensure that books and other materials acquired by libraries in a country (or region) continue to be available for use even though local libraries may no longer be able to retain them.” UAP / IFLA 1982: National repository plans and programmes: a comparative study of existing plans and possible models

Key factors in planning repositories Concept of ownership provision of buildings management of repositories relegation decisions user needs

Conclusion 1: savings Avoidance of unnecessary duplication Extending the range of material available Cheap land / location Cheap storage methods _____________ For individual libraries

Conclusion 2: repository Part of national library planning All aspects of literature provision for national needs Relation to interlending system Concept of permanent availability Relation to acquisition programmes High-quality conservation

Repositories in Europe 1989: Finland, Norway 1994: France 1995: Estonia

”Solving collection problems through repository strategies” Keynote: shared ownership, acquisition Different repository models Economic of storage Functions of repositories National libraries and repositories / second keynote Availability of materials Future of repositories

Repository and storage library discussion group / IFLA knowledge of the service potentials forum to exchange ideas discuss the concept of a repository discuss the effects of digital environment role in increasing availability of materials develop a research programme in the context of UAP and CDNL

DG 2 / Terminology repository library -use by number of libraries -ownership: deduplication -important resource what value does a repository add -the assembly of the deduplicated materials in one place -organisation and access to the materials, where ever they may be

Fiesole Collection Development Retreat 2004 –Florence networked, user-initiated, print repositories contents delivered digitally part of the concept of digital library

Important web-sites Acquisition and Collection Development Section of IFLA The Fiesole Collection Development Retreat CAPM

Collections for Literacy and Development – Focus on Latin America Cooperative Collection Development in the Latin American and Caribbean Virtual Health Library The educational divide in Latin America: a case study Collections of library for education and development: policy and practice in Colombia