New organization of scientific library – free access to library resources
From „Lifelong Learning program” in the framework of Mobile Programs of EU - Wroclaw University Library was granted financial support for the project „New organization of scientific library – free access to library sources”. Owning to that project two librarians from Wroclaw University Library: one from Scientific Information Department and the second one from Silezia-Lusatian Cabinet were sent to the internship to the Freie Universität Berlin Library. Project was realized within Leonardo da Vinci program (PL/07/LLP – LdV/PLM/140128) and lasted since 6th of January 2008 till 29th of February 2008.
Aim of that project was to profit from experiences of Freie Universität Berlin Library in the organizational field of library with free access to collections and using this knowledge in planning of organizational structure of University Library in the new library building.
Eight weeks practice was conducted in several libraries: Freie Universität Berlin Library (FUB), FUB Philology Library and other libraries in Berlin and Potsdam.
In first week interns were familiarized with organizational structure of Freie Universität Berlin’s Library, features of ALEPH system as well as role and duties of subject librarians. In second week they learned about work of storage, local lending and interlibrary lending department. Third week was dedicated to scientific information department and reading room duties.
Although institution that organized internship was Freie Universität Berlin Library, interns also visited other Brandeburg's libraries that proved to be useful for overall goal of the practice. They were in: Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Zentral – und Landesbibliothek Berlin and HFF Library in Potsdam (Die Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (HFF) "Konrad Wolf" Potsdam-Babelsberg). In sixth week of stay interns visited FUB Philology Library that is model example of library with free access to collections. They learned about RVK classification system and its functioning within library as well as about duties concerning re-classification of books from old to new classification scheme, that is done by local students.
In the last week interns were offered individual programs, accordant to their personal preferences. One was familiarized with standard long-term archiving program (DINI) and with program of digitization of old and present publication of University at Erwin Schrödinger Center that function under jurisdiction of Humboldt State University Library (Arbeitsgruppe Elektronisches Publizieren). The second one underwent practice in Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) that serves as Reference Center for Multimedia and e-learning. Aim of internship at CeDiS was to learn about specific methods of e-learning usage at Freie Universität Berlin. It is used for presentation of didactical materials – academic teachers are publishing their lectures on web page and employees of CeDiS help them in preparation of e-learning courses, secure access to Blackboard platform and train them in its usage. Practice includes also presentation of Distributed Campus project.
Interns prepared multimedia presentation, to share gained information with other employees of WUL.