ELAG 2001(1)

ELAG 2001 - Integrating Heterogeneous Resources - Prague, 6-8 June 2001

National and University Library, Zagreb Progress Report 2001

1. Institution

National and University Library
Hrvatske bratske zajednice b.b.
Zagreb, 10 000 Croatia

ELAG Contact Person:
Ms. Maja Jokic (Library consultant), mjokic@nsk.hr , phone:00 385 1 616 4017 , fax:00 385 1 616 4186

Institution Type: national and university library

Mission Statement

The National and University Library is one of the central cultural institutions in Croatia. It serves as a scientific and the major research library of the University of Zagreb, with a large collection of foreign literature. Its mission is to promote Croatian culture, research and science.

The tasks of the library concern collection development, preservation, conservation and presentation of the collections of the library. The collection development is partly based on the Legal Deposit Act, but also through the exchange, donations and purchase of other publications covering all areas of human creativity as well as famous special collections of manuscripts and rare books, graphics, maps and music.

2. Computer networks and Internet connectivity

Computers network (LAN) in NUL is a structured cabled UTP cat. 5. Transmission technology is Ethernet with speed of 10Mb/s. The dominant protocol on the network is TCP/IP with 8 servers, 12 asynchronous computers/terminals and most of 314 personal computers connected in LAN. NSK is connected to the Internet via CARNET.
CARNet network is the Croatian academic and scientific research community private WAN network. The network infrastructure is owned by the CARNet institution, and twisted-pair and optical cables are leased from Croatian Telecomm (HT). Transmission technologies are ATM and Ethernet. CARNET is connecting via TEN-155 (Trans-European Internet Research Network - 155) on speed of 34 Mbps in worlds Internet.

New HW, SW
100Mb/s connection to the CARNET.

3. Library automation

In the NUL there are in use:
- 7 servers: 1 on SCO UnixWare 2.1.3 (main server with CROLIST database Oracle
(UnixWare) 7.3.4 /Compaq Proliant 4500 rack version, 4 x Pentium 133MHz,
1GB RAM, 2MB Cache, 2 x 4.3GB Plugg. Fast-SCSI-2, Integr. 32 Bit
Fast-Widw SCSI-2, 2/8GB DAT, NetFlex-3/E, FDD Card, CD-ROM, External
Storage Rock-Mountable 43 GB
2 on Nowell NetWare (ISIP database and counting department)
4 on Microsoft NT4.0 (DNS server, MS Exchange server, MS IIS, CD-ROM
jukebox server)
- 314 personal computers
-12 asynchronous computers terminals (DEC VT320)

4. Union Catalogue

CROLIST integrated library system is used; developed and maintained by UNIBIS, Zagreb and NUL.

NUL databases contain 713474 records UNIMARC records: (bibliographic database - 427943 records; authority database - 285531 records)

23 libraries in CROLIST network: regional, public, special and research/university libraries (downloading and shared cataloguing fully operational): 35051 records downloaded from NUL databases in 2000; (16339 in 1999., 27546 till 18.05.2001., total number of records downloaded 78936); 1316 records catalogued by other libraries in 2000 in NUL database (1158 till 18.05.2001., total number of catalogued records 2747).

Union Catalogue of Serials - in the testing phase.

Union Catalogue of libraries in CROLIST network - in the testing phase.

5. New in-house databases

Databases mounted in-house:
NT 4.0 Server with CD-ROM jukebox NSM Mercury 40, allows users access to
150 CDs - mainly bibliographic databases (SCI, SSCI, Biosis, Socilogocal Abstracts, Phylospoher Index, LISA...)

Important commercial web services accessible to your users:

EMERALD - 130 full-text journals
EBSCO EIFL Direct

6. Special web services (to be functional by June, 2001)

Union catalogue of CROLIST Network HTML National Bibliography (static file with links to dynamic holdings in the NUL catalogue)

Online statistics: number of bibliographic and/or authority records in NUL databases; number of searching in NUL databases; number of records downloaded from NUL databases (in a month/year); number of records catalogued in shared cataloguing program (by month/year/library/individual);

Services for the users (personal information etc.)

7. Research and technology development projects

Due to Croatian Legal deposit law (1997) Croatian online publications should be archived. At the moment NUL just provides access to Croatian electronic resources (155 items) on the publishers'/authors' servers. A survey on the national web-space, resources characteristics and metadata use has been done.

National bibliographic control of e-resources project.

ALM (Archives, libraries & archives) metadata interoperability project.

8. Other important projects (future plans)

Digitization of NUL's material in co-operation with Croatian National Archive, Zagreb and Hungarian National Library, Budapest.

190 posters of Croatian artist Boris Bucan will be digitized.

Pilot project - Croatian scientific journals full-text database in XML.

Reported by Maja Jokic <mjokic@nsk.hr> and Sofija Klarin <sklarin@nsk.hr>

Zagreb, 24. April 2001.