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

Lower Saxony State and University Library Goettingen (Germany) Progress Report 2001

  1. Institution

    2. Lower Saxony State and University Library Goettingen (Germany)
    Papendiek 14
    Goettingen,  37073  Germany

    ELAG Contact Person:
    Ms. Heike Neuroth (Research Librarian) , neuroth@mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de , phone:0049 - 551 - 393866

    Institution Type: University Library

    Mission Statement
    The Lower Saxony State and University Library Goettingen (SUB), founded in 1734, is one of the largest libraries in Germany. It serves as the central library of the University of Goettingen and the Goettingen Academy of Science. The collection comprises over four million books. The libraries of the various university departments contain another three million items. The library subscribes to about 16,000 journals and serials. Moreover, the library's special collections contain more than 210,000 maps, 12,000 manuscripts, 350 literary bequests and 3,100 incunabula. With more than 160,000 interlibrary loans in 1999 the library plays a key role in the national literature exchange. Together with five other leading German libraries, the SUB Goettingen is part of the cooperative National Library system, responsible for German 18th century printing. The library employs 248.5 full-time staff equivalencies, and its budget for 1999 was about nine million marks.

  2. Computer networks and Internet connectivity

    1. In general HW, SW

      2. HW: 7 Cisco Router, TP 10/100 GB

      SW: 5 Class C-Networks, 100/1 GB
      TCP/IP-Network, Novell-Netware, 1 GB Campus Backbone with 155 Mbit Internet Connection

    2. New HW, SW; connectivity upgrades

      3. HW: TP 100/1GB

      SW: 1 GB Win/Internet Connection

  3. Library automation

    1. In general HW/SW

      2. HW: 5 Digital Servers, 10 Sun Servers, 21 PC Servers (Linux / Win NT), ca. 500 clients

      SW: IBW, MS Office, H+H Netman, ERL Server, MySql Databases, IBM-DB2 (Agora), Proxy Server, Multihosting Apache

    2. New HW, SW, other

      3. HW: 4 Sun Servers, Firewall, ca. 800 clients

      SW: Metaframe Server

  4. Union Catalogue

    1. Software used

      2. Software used: Pica LBS-3, for staff functions: WinIBW Cataloguing is done in the VZG (Verbund Zentrale Goettingen) and updates for the OPAC are retrieved from the VZG by an online update mechanism.

    2. New features

      3. Picarta

  5. Digital Library

    1. Based on your own production of digital documents

      2. Autobiographica, Itineraria/Travelbook, Mathematica, Early North-Americana, History of Humanities and Sciences
      GDZ

    2. If so, what is new in your digitization programmes?

      3. A "print on demand" service will be realized in 2001.

    3. Based on external sources

      4. Books and full texts
      Journals, newspapers, magazines
      CD-ROM databases of the SUB
      Metadata server
      Online databases
      Electronic doctoral theses
      Preprint server
      Electronic journals (GEZ-N)
      Semester reserve
      Electronic Library Psychology
      Special Subject Guides

    4. Important commercial web services accessible to your users

      5. Access to commercial ejournals (Springer, Chadwick-Healey etc.) via the Common Electronic Library of Journals in Lower Saxony (GEZ-N).

  6. New in-house databases

    7. CD-ROM databases of the SUB

  7. Special web services

    8. MathGuide
    Geo-Guide
    Anglistik Guide
    History Guide
    Forestry-Guide
    Gutenberg Digital

  8. Electronic document delivery services

    9. GAUSS (Document delivery service)
    SSG-S (Special subject collection delivery service)
    GBVdirect (Document delivery service of GBV)
    subito (Library document delivery service for articles and books)
    Orders for copying, photographing and scanning documents
    Document delivery services for customers in the USA
    Document delivery service of other libraries and commercial suppliers

  9. Research and technology development projects

    10. CARMEN Project
    DIEPER Project
    Establishing service centers for the retrospective digitization of library material in Germany
    EULER Project
    Math-Bib-Net Project
    Meta-Lib Project
    Renardus Project
    SSG Subject Specific Information
    Tecup Project

  10. Other important projects

    11. Annuals Project
    Book carrier systems for ILL in Germany
    Cataloging of literary remains of mathematicians
    Common Electronic Library of Journals in Lower Saxony (GEZ-N)
    Development of a Distributed Digital Library of Mathematical Monographs. URL will be added.
    Digitizing the Rare Books, Maps, and Manuscripts pertaining to the Exploration of Siberia and the North Polar Region from the Asch Collection
    Digitization of sources of the 18th and early 19th enturies relating to the History of the Humanities and the Sciences
    Establishing a decentralized digital research library
    Electronic Library of Psychology
    German Resources Project
    Joint special subject service for history by BSB Muenchen and SUB Goettingen
    SSG Digitization of Periodicals (SSG-DigiZeit)
    SSG-S Document Delivery Services
    Subject-Specific Virtual Library on Anglo-American Culture

Reported by Inka Tappenbeck <tappenbeck@mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de>

Goettingen, 23 May 2001

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