Development and co-operation projects
The National Library of Finland is responsible and/or involved in several national and international development and co-operation projects. Many of these projects are focused on electronic publications, especially improving access to them and long term preservation. The objective is to build tools and to open and maintain new online services.
Current development projects
National
- Infrastructure for Institutional Repositories 2009-2010
- Joint Library System Consortium 2009
- MARC 21 format 2006-2014
- National Digital Library 2008-2011
- National Union Catalogue (LINDA) 2008-2013
- National Semantic Web Ontology Project (FinnONTO) 2003-2012
- Sounds of the century digitisation project 2005-2010
- Structural reorganisation of Academic Libraries 2008-2009
International
- Europeana 2009-
- Europeana Travel 2009-2011
- Identifying and Explaining Digital Objects (Nordbib WP3) 2009-
Ongoing co-operation projects
Partnerships
The National Library improves its services also by networking with both national and international actors. Moreover strategic partnerships are being used. Besides mutual benefit the aim of the partnerships is to develop services for the whole consortium or library sector. It can focus on a specific problem or a broader range of issues. Partnerships are an effective way to develop and build new services and it also facilitates quick launching of the results for all customers.
Partnerships have been used within the Library Network Services e.g. in connection with licensing of online materials and the Nelli Information Retrieval Portal.
Research
Research that helps develop the core functions of the National Library is promoted in co-operation with the Faculties of Library Science at various universities.
