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Online services of the National Library of Technology in Prague
Hedvíková, Květa ; Římanová, Radka (advisor) ; Drobíková, Barbora (referee)
The topic of this thesis focuses on the online services in the National Technical Library in Prague including e-books, the acquisition of e-magazines through consortiums and the different search catalogues that are available to users. The thesis also provides an overview of other services offered such as the TECH Subject Gateway, the Virtual Polytechnic Library, the National Repository of Grey Literature, eBooks on Demand and Ask you Library. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the current benefits of the online services for users and to determine the future direction of their development. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Virtual Polytechnic Library: From “Home-Grown” Document Delivery Concept to aNational Collaborative Platform for Resource Sharing
Heicl, Václav ; Krueger, Stephanie ; Skenderija, Sasha
The Czech Virtual Polytechnic Library (VPK) began in 2000 as the “virtual resource sharing alliance” by the leading Czech STM libraries as their response to the rapidly changing landscape of STM publishing and acquisitions, resource sharing, access policies, and technologies. VPK utilizes the INVIK document delivery management system developed in 1997 by a team of developers from the then-State Technical Library (now NTK), with NTK as its logistical “service center.” After its launch, the VPK alliance soon grew to also include non-STM libraries and became the Czech Republic’s most efficient and reliable national interlibrary resource sharing platform. VPK’s technological infrastructure and the logistical service center at NTK have adapted in an agile manner to changes in scholarly publishing over the past fifteen years and to the demands and needs of its participating members, who contribute data and resources to the sharing system. The VPK platform is now being considered as a resource sharing platform for the Central Portal for Czech Libraries (CPL), which would serve (starting in 2020) public libraries in addition to academic institutions and which would have more robust end-user functionality. The presenters will discuss this unique collaboration solution, which shows how a “home-grown/grassroots” initiative—developed and managed by its participating members in direct response to their changing needs and circumstances through time—can prove to be an inspirational, flexible and viable solution, even at the national level.
Fulltext: idr-952_2 -  PDF
Slides: idr-952_1 - PDF
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