Bókasafnið

						Yfir anddyri Green safnsins íStamford.

Veigamesta breytingin er sú viðhorfsbreyting að hlut-

verk safnsins sé að veita aðgang að heimildum frekar

en að varðveita þær. Þetta felur í sér breytta afstöðu

til eignar á safnkosti. Inn í þetta fléttast svo umrót á

markaðsumhverfi bókasafna sem kallar einnig á ný

viðhorf hvað varðar innkaup og leigu á efni. I því

sambandi vaknar sú spurning hvaða starfseining sé

heppilegust til að gera samninga hverju sinni. Það

verður sífellt minna um að einstakar fræðigreinar

geti einar ákveðið sín kaup eða stefnu vegna þess hve

samningarnir eru oft yfirgripsmiklir. Landsaðgangur

að tímaritum hefur að mörgu leyti tekist afar vel og

hugsast getur að aðstæður hér á landi kalli á enn

frekari samvinnu fræðasamfélagsins um efni, ann-

aðhvort í landsaðgangi eða í sameiginlegum aðgangi

tiltekinna stofnana. Einnig gæti verið rétt að skoða

samvinnu við háskólasamfélagið á Norðurlöndum

um innkaup á rafrænu efni.

Það hefur komið fram hér að framan að þótt

breytingar gerist hratt, þá gerast þær ekki í einu vet-

fangi. Notkun á rafrænu efni hefur aukist mikið en

enn þarf að lesa og kaupa bækur, bæði gamlar og

nýjar. Ritakaupastefna verður að leggja ríka áherslu á

þetta, bæði hvað varðar innkaup og aðstöðu.

Þegar horft er til framtíðar skiptir miklu máli

að það sé góð samvinna á milli þeirra sem annast

mótun aðgengisstefnu og þeirra sem nota efnivið-

inn. Háskólasamfélagið ætti allt að vera samstíga um

þessa stefnumótun, jafnvel þótt hún sé ekki ein og sú

sama fyrir öll fræðasvið.

* ARL is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries at

comprehensive, research-extensive institutions in the US and Canada

that share similar research missions, aspirations, and achievements. It

is an important and distinctive association because of its membership

and the nature of the institutions represented. AKL member libraries

make up a large portion of the academic and research library

marketplace, spendíng more than one billion dollars every year on

library materials.

Heimildir

Ameen, Kanwal (2005). Developments in the philosophy of collection

management: a historical review. Collection Building 24(4), 112-116.

Ball, David (2006). Signing Away Our Freedom: The Implications of

Electronic Resource Licenses. The Acquisitions Librarian, 18(35),

7-20.

Bar-Ilan, Judít og Fink, Noa (2005). Preference for electronic format of

scientific journals - a case study of the Science Library users at the

Hebrew University. Library & Information Science Research, 27(3),

363-376.

Evans, G. Edward and Saponaro, Margaret Zarnoski (2005). Developing

Library and Information   Center Collections  (5.  útg.).  Westport:

Libraries Unlimited.

Fialkoff, Francine (2005). Access by Google (editorial). LibraryJournal,

Jan., 8.

Kyrillidou, Martha og Young, Mark. (2005). ARL Libarary trend 2003-

2004. http://www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/04pubintro.html.

Miller, Ruth H. (2000). Electronic Resources and Academic Libraries,

1980-2000: A Historical Perspective. Library Trends, 48(4), 645-670.

Stemper, James A. og Jaguszewski, Janice M. (2003). Usage Statistics

for Electronic Journals: An Analysis of Local and Vendor Counts.

Collection Management, 28(4), 3-22.

Stoller, Michael (2005). Building Library Collections: it's still about the

user. Collection Building, 24(1), 4-8.

Stoller, Michael (2006). A decade of ARL collection development : a

look at the data. Collection Building, 25(2), 45-51.

Abstract

The development of a university library

The role of academic libraries has changed considerably in

recent decades and to a considerable extent become more

diversified, and thus specialised, in the process. Ameen's

(2005) emphasis that their role is to "preserve to serve

humanity" still holds, but with the difference that not all

libraries emphasise both the roles of preserving and serv-

ing equally. Furthermore, with the increased sophistication

and efficiency of digital storage and transmission, but also

with the ease of physical transport, the notion of storage

becomes less tied to a specific location (í.e. library). Thus

the service role of libraries to make material available

becomes a general brokerage function, through which the

library makes available to the user not only the material

that resides within the library but all material wherever it is

kept. The commercial market the libraries deal with is also

changing. There is a fast growing production and cost of

potentially relevant material, changed environment due to

electronic publishing and somewhat controlling policies of

the publishing giants, all of which have gradually changed

the policies and operational emphasis of libraries. This

includes finding the difficult optimal balance between pre-

servation and accessibility. These changes are discussed, on

the one hand with detailed reference to the developments

within the American Research Libraries (ARL) and to the

National and University Library of Iceland on the other.

In conclusion the close cooperation in collection building

¦ and access policy between an academic library and the

academia it serves is emphasised.

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