1. Collection building for special collections Between Cultural Management and Research: Special collections in the 21 st Century, Weimar Chantal Keijsper, Head Information & Collections Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands (www.kb.nl) 23 November 2005

2. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Contents Organisation National tasks Collections The special collections collection plan 2006-2009 collection building: printed and written materials collection building: virtual national collection

3. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Size Budget 36 M Euro Permanent staff263 fte Building75,000 sqm Collection items3,3 million = more than 67 km of library materials Digital collection items3 million

4. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Mission statement The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National library of the Netherlands, gives everyone access to the knowledge and culture of the past and the present by providing high-quality services for research, study and cultural experience.

5. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections National responsibilities National programmes and projects Research & development (Inter)national cooperation

6. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Services Performance indicators2004 Visits to the library 88.800 Visits to the website13.243.000 (Interlibrary) loans234.700 Providing information53.600 Exhibitions with KB loans (domestic/foreign) 49 / 7 Customer satisfaction (scale of 1-10)7,9

7. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Collection International E-deposit National deposit of printed works Academic collection Special collections

8. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Collection: national position One of the four largest humanities libraries Distinguishs by: focus on Dutch material large source collections (newspapers, journals etc.) besides academic materials also popular culture ephemeral materials in National Deposit: ‘last resort’

9. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Collection: figures Performance indicators2004 Accretion of books53.470 Accretation in issues of periodicals113.630 Accretation in electronic publications1.170.320 Accretation of special collections347 manuscripts = 21 (items and collections) printed books = 269 papercollection = 36 Bookbindings = 21

10. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Collection plan 2006-2009 Coherent vision for the KB-collection as a whole: the academic collection, the national deposit, the digital collection and the special collections are approached integrally. New criteria for collection building Handle for budgetting, determination required knowledge and specialists Tool to set up priorities for activities in the fields of expert services, restoration and conservation, digitization, presentation, cooperation

11. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections New collection division Dutch-collection National Deposit Academic collection, focus on Dutch history, language and culture Accent collections: journals, children books, novels etc. Special collections Manuscripts, printed books, special materials, history of the book Accent collections: incunabula, bookbindings, papercollection, pamphlets etc. Reference collection International E-deposit

12. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Collection building for special collections: printed and written material Budget: 155.000 Euro Special collections: 100.000 Euro Book and Library Science: 35.000 Euro Journals and electronic materials: 20.000 Euro New criteria Collection plan 2006-2009 Agreements with other cultural heritage institutions

13. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Collection building for special collections: virtual (national) collection National programmes coordinated by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek Metamorfoze Het Geheugen van Nederland / Memory of the Netherlands National projects Illuminated manuscripts Parchment to Portal Collection Willem Witsen Children books Project plans National infrastructure for the special collections Dutch newspapers

14. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections National programmes: Metamorfoze Preservation of cultural heritage (1840-1950) on a large scale Library collections Financed by the government (70% per project) and participants (30%) Preservation by microfilming, de-acidification, small restoration, packing and storage 65.000 books, 200 metres newspapers, 1.750 volumes of magazines, 179 collections Developments: archives, digitisation, cooperation in research www.metamorfoze.nl

15. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections National programmes: Geheugen van Nederland / Memory of the Netherlands Digitisation of cultural heritage on a large scale Participants: libraries, museums, archives, … Financed by the government (70% per project) and participants (30%) Free use for the general public, (secondary) education and research 800.000 images, 250 hours video, 100 hours audio Developments: improvement of metadata, more text www.geheugenvannederland.nl

16. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections National projects : 1 Illuminated manuscripts : finished 11.000 unique images coming from 400 medieval illuminated manuscripts from the KB and the Museum Meermanno- Westreenianum in The Hague. For researchers and general public www.kb.nl/webexpo/manuscripts/html Parchment to portal : 2005-2007 Financed by NWO Portal and catalogue of the medieval manuscripts in The Netherlands (7000) For researchers

17. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections National projects: 2 Willem Witsen project : 2005-2007 Conservation, digitisation and presentation of the scattered lettres (2000), photographs (7000) and other material of Willem Witsen Co-operation between 7 institutions For researchers and general public Presentation: different websites Children books: 2004-2006 Conservation, digitisation and preservation 4 institutions For researchers and general public Presentation: Memory of the Netherlands

18. Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections New plans ‘Libratory’ for the humaniora A national infrastructure for the special collections Initiative by KB and university libraries of Amsterdam and Leiden Metadata, digital images and full text / full content Funding? Dutch newspapers National programme for digitization of the Dutch newspapers Application made

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