Schlagwort: norway

Divibib in different countries (UPDATE)

Germany and Norway are heavily discussing DiViBibs new service. I just looked for blog postings from other countries.

France

EBSI 2.0: Prêt de documents numériques

An interesting article which passed by a very good source of information, teaches us that certain German libraries will launch a service of loan for numerical documents with the assistance of a trade partner.

The company DiViBib GMBH will be used as content provider including/understanding of the music, of the sound and audio-visual documents as well as numerical books starting from a Web site. Obviously that the protection of the royalties passes by usual technologies of DRM. what wants to say that a document loses its capacity to be lù at the end of the period of loan, but will not require the return to the library. ; ^) Made interesting mentioned in the article, the same document cannot be borrowed at the same time by two users.

(Translated by Google Language Tools)

Portugal

Bibliotecas Portuguesas: Alemanha entra na era da biblioteca digital

Two libraries of the country had started to disponibilizar for the Internet about ten a thousand workmanships to affiliated its. The idea is to attract the young public mainly.

The municipal libraries of the German cities of Hamburg and Würzburg had started to disponibilizar for audio loan online ten a thousand books in and text, beyond videos.

The project, that still is in the phase of tests, is considered pioneering in the Europe and must include, until June middle, the municipal libraries of Colony and Munique.

To make the loan, the associate of one of the libraries is enough to supply its virtual code in the website of the institution, to choose a heading and to make download of the archive, that will be available in the computer of the user per five days. In the case of the archives of audio video and, the associate also needs to have installed coder WMA.

“It is the reply of the libraries for the digital revolution”, said Holger Behrens, head-executive of the DiViBib, responsible company for the system of virtual loans of the two libraries.

Bildunterschrift: Großansicht DES Bildes mit to give Bildunterschrift: The objective of the virtual libraries is to attract the public jovemHella Schwemer-Martienssen, director of the system of public libraries of Hamburg, said that the public libraries in Germany carry through 350 million loans per year for the traditional form and that it is in the hour of will compete with the Amazon through virtual loans for who cannot or does not want to buy books.

The expectation is that the virtual system attracts the young especially, since they correspond to a great parcel of the users of the Internet.

(Translated by Google Language Tools)

Norway

There are two some articles. The first one is explained here in Infobib, for the second one I couldn’t find a translation tool others did Sandra find a translation tool for Norwegian-English and Norwegian-German and many other languages.

  1. Blogg og Bibliotek: DiViBib, with German and English annotations
  2. IKT-Nettverk: Nettverk for IKT-rådgivere i fylkesbibliotekene
  3. Bibliotek Laboratoriet: Det virtuelle bibliotek by Kim Andre Tallerås (added 16.08.2007)

Divibib in Norwegen

Auch in Norwegen wird eifrig über DiViBib diskutiert. Thomas Brevik, Autor des norwegischen LibWorld-Beitrages, hat in seinem Blogg og bibliotek über Divibib geschrieben, deren prominenteste Dienstleistung hierzulande unter dem Namen Onleihe bekannt ist. Via Email hat er mir sein Posting zusammengefasst, woraus ich nun mit seiner Erlaubnis zitieren möchte:

The post is a response to some criticism I got from other librarians
in Norway for beeing to positive to DiViBib.

The Norwegian Library Bureau is starting a pilot project to introduce
DiViBib as the first e-book and e-content platform for public
libraries in Norway.

I argue that even with the severe problems that the DRM and lending
model represents, DiViBib is the first serious attempt at getting a
usable platform for dissemination of e-content into norwegian pujblic
libraries. And there is severe resistance to the whole “Lending of
digital files” concept among librarians, so I think that DiViBib may
be a good way to educate the “resisters” and just get some content out
there at all!

The other problem in Norway is the fundamental lack of e-books in
norwegian. The norwegian publishing industry has resisted publishing
e-books since the “great e-book flop” of 2001 and nothing has happened
since. Today the publishers are reluctant to get into any e-book model
in fear of loosing money, and most author organizations are reluctant
because they fear “filesharing” as a threat to their incomes.

I believe that with the increasing pressure against DRM the
possibility is that the DiViBib model will be changed over time, and
that since there is no realistic alternative in Norway, and that the
Library Bureau is the only entety that has any chance of persuading
the publishers to issue e-books in norwegian, I believe that DiViBib
is the best option at this time and that we should use it and try to
change it from the inside over time instead of resisting and have no
alternative.

DiViBib ist also nicht nur hierzulande sehr umstritten. Die Debatte, ob DRM akzeptabel ist oder nicht, wird in Norwegen aufgrund der bisher sehr schlechten Verfügbarkeit von E-Books in norwegischer Sprache etwas anders bewertet, zumindest von ihm. Dies kann wohl generell als Problem kleinerer Sprachgemeinschaften betrachtet werden. Dienstleistungen, die sprachbasiert sind, sind generell schwieriger zu realisieren, je kleiner die Sprachgemeinschaft ist.

Ein Unterschied ist auch, dass die Dienstleistung von einem zentralen Bibliotheksbüro, der Biblioteksentralen, eingeführt wurde, während hierzulande einzelne Bibliotheken als Pioniere agieren.

Thomas Brevik legt Wert darauf, dass die Email ausschließlich seine persönliche Meinung wiedergibt und meint abschließend:

I would be very interested in the responses.

Carnival of the Infosciences

We’ve been carnivalized. The Carnival of the Infosciences mentioned our LibWorld series:

Christian Hauschke presents Libworld – an introduction posted at Infobib. This article introduces a series of postings, in which information professionals from diverse countries portray their local library and library related blog sphere. It started very successful with Spain and Hungary, and we are told that others will follow soon.

Right, Norway followed, and others like Brazil or Sweden will follow soon, too.

The Carnival is a weekly weblog post that endeavors to showcase the best posts in the blogosphere about topics related to the wide world of Library and Information Science. To be alerted when a new Carnival is posted, subscribe to the RSS feed. (from the Carnival’s wiki).

The 70th issue can be found at InfoSciPhi.