Public library of Aura and Pöytyä Progress Report 2001

Institution

Public library of Aura and Pöytyä
Turuntie 3 , POB 7
Aura,  21381  Finland

ELAG Contact Person:
Ms. Ulla-Maija Maunu (Head of the library) , ulla@aura.fi , phone:+358 2 48643275 , fax: +358 2 48643276

Institution Type: Public Libraries

Mission Statement
Both libraries are public libraries. The most important is to serve customers and lend different materials (for example books, cd's, cd-rom's, videos, magazines, dvd's and so one). We are also very active in internet. On our websites we have for example a new quiz every month, a christmas calender music and pictures and with poems/aforisms of our own).

Computer networks and Internet connectivity

We have 6 computers in library network and two of them are for customers internet use. Operating system is Windows and we were the first library in the world which served a possibility to get notification about reserved material via textmessage.

Library automation

Our library program is called ATP Origo. It's possible to catalogue for example hyperlinks and photos in it (covers of books and so on) and a little bit music or video clips.

We have also our catalogue in web since 1998 and we have it together with four neighbour libraries. It's also possible to reserve and renew loans via internet

Other important projects

A project based on the FRBR, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records - model is supported by the Ministry of Education. The goal is to test new models for OPACs according to FRBR. Different relationships between works, expressions, and manifestations are taken into consideration for creating ways for the users to navigate in the bibliographic environment.

Reported by Ulla-Maija Maunu <ulla@aura.fi>

Aura, 24 April 2001