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

Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information, Bratislava Progress Report 2001

1.    Institution

Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information, Bratislava
Namestie slobody 19
Bratislava,  812 23  Slovakia

ELAG Contact Person:
Mr. Oleg Cvik (manager IT) , cvik@tbb1.cvtisr.sk , phone:+421/7/43420455

Institution Type: Research Library

Mission Statement

Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (SCSTI), formerly the Slovak Technical Library, is the oldest Slovak national technical research library specialized in  technical and selected areas of  natural, economic and social  sciences. SCSTI is supervised by  the Ministry of Education and its mission is to underpin science and research development, scholarship, business and industry. Its services are used mainly by students of technical universities (75% of 27 000 users) , R&D workers and wide technical community of the Slovak republic and abroad.

SCSTI  builds up collections (appx. 890 000 library units) of domestic and foreign literature, serials, patents, standarts and other information sources from technical fields and also from natural, economic and social science  related to technology. The main services are loan services (286 000 per year), retrieval (more than 600 per year) and bibliographic services. There are electronic delivery (appx. 8700 pages),  translations, copy and editor services, too.  Our Web (1 700 pages)  was visited last year by more then 450 000 visitors.

SCSTI has 127 employees and is situated in 3 buildings (Bratislava)  and 1 building  in the Jarna.  

2.    Computer networks and Internet connectivity

a.     In general HW, SW

Three Ethernet LANs (one 10/100 Mbps- metalic struc.cable and two 10 Mbps- thin Ethernet coax.cable) connected together by optical cable and microwave (so it looks for users like one network), 100 Mb/s optical line to SANET provider . There are  11 servers (6xNetware,1x AIX,2x UNIX FreeBSD, 2 W95) and 134 workstations (96 Pentium with W95/W98). For users are 15 DOS workstations (OPAC), 5 Windows multimedia internet workstations,   8 LINUX internet workstations and 2 Network computer stations (internet only) available.

 

b.     New HW, SW; connectivity upgrades

Microwave connection (1 Mbps) between our two buildings in Bratislava (appx. 7 kilometers by air).

New workstations (22) for employees  and  LINUX workstations(8) for user.

Migration of the Web site from PC 486 to IBM RS 6000 server with AIX 4.2.1.

Instalation of   Network computer stations (2) - booting from IBM RS 6000 machine. 

3.    Library automation

a.     In general HW/SW

      Library automation system based on BIS-C system ( loans and OPAC)  combined with CDS/ ISIS (own application of modules of acquisition and catalogue).  BIS –C was implemented in 1993 by  DABIS, GmbH Austria on the Netware server.

Our Web OPAC is based on APACHE and CDS/ ISIS under FreeBSD.

b.     New HW, SW, other

Migration from DOS oriented CDS/ISIS to WINISIS applications (serials, acquistion and cataloque moduls) 

4.    Union Catalogue

a.     Software used

We prepare  records of serials and of foreign book for the University Library Bratislava ,  all under CDS/ISIS software.    

b.     New features

Catalogized records of slovak norms (under CDS/ISIS) are converted to UNIMARC format and then are send to  the Slovak National Library Martin.

5.    Digital Library

a.     Based on external sources

Electronic library of digital documents from European Union sources (www.edis.sk/ekes/ekes.htm) was implemented last year.

Virtual study room of domestic and foreign periodocals (more then  1000 periodicals)

6.    New in-house databases

7.    Special web services

     Booking of books by e-mail.

8.    Electronic document delivery services

We used system JASON –NRW (Journal Articles Sent of the Demand Nordrhein Westfalen) developed by University Library of Bielefeld (Germany). MEDEA subsytem of JASON –NRW (for delivery ours scanned articles by e-mail) is in use, too.  Through JASON –NRW service were 8675  pages delivered  (from foreign periodicals to Slovak users) and by MEDEA 1835 pages of our periodicals was delivered to users of other Slovak libraries.

9.    Research and technology development projects

     Development of INTRANET of SCSTI.

     Improving of our Web site (active forms, local browsers, electronic account for users…)

 

10.                      Other important projects

Information System of  Potentials of Science in Slovakia (ISPSS ) – the project is solved in cooperation with the    Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic.

Reported by Oleg Cvik <cvik@tbb1.cvtisr.sk>