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1. Slide 1: 2 in 1: Combining the Seemingly Uncombinable Vaiko Sepper Inspire and Transform: Regenerating Services Peebles, 3-5 June 2008
2. Slide 2: The Republic of Estonia  Area: 45,000 km²  Islands: 1500  Lakes: 1200  Rivers: 7000  Population: 1.3 million  Estonians – 900 000  Other nationalities – 400 000
3. Slide 3:  First mentioned in 1154  Population 400,000  UNESCO World Heritage Site since1997  The European Capital of Culture 2011  Skype – Tallinn IT start-up
4. Slide 10: Libraries in Estonia Number of Staff Collections libraries Research 60 1050 64 million and special libraries Public 570 1680 11 million libraries School 450 590 5 million libraries Total 1080 3320 80 million
5. Slide 11: Use of Library Services  Registered users – 750 000  Visits – 11 million  Loans - 16 million  Loans per user-21
6. Slide 12: 2 in 1 The Repository Library of Estonia Background  Receive, store and make available low-use but valuable material  Redistribute documents Branch: The Estonian Library for the Blind  Provide access to information for the visually impaired readers
7. Slide 13: Staff/Budget  Administered by the Ministry of Culture  Library Board – 6 members Staff  Repository Library - 22  Library for the Blind -11  Annual budget – total £500 000
8. Slide 14: Selection Criteria  Material selected for storage by owner library  Ownership delegated to the Repository Library  Only foreign language material stored  No-duplicates policy observed
9. Slide 15: Cataloguing Estonian Libraries Network Consortium  established in 1996 (13 members)  joins libraries into an integrated electronic library system  manages the jointly generated union catalogue ESTER ESTER  includes 2,2 million bibliographic records  200 000 new records added in 2007  20 000 records added by the Repository Library of Estonia
10. Slide 16: Collection  Total collection - 485 000 items  Additions in 2007 -10 000 items  Books – 90%  Periodicals – 10%  Usage  Reading-room  Inter-library loan  Electronic document delivery
11. Slide 18: Redistribution of Documents  Total collection: 820 000  In 2007 received 210 000 items  Donated to other libraries 42 000 items  Discarded 200 000 items
12. Slide 19: The Estonian Library for the Blind Main Functions  producing audiobooks on CD-s in mp3 format  editing and printing Braille materials  making tactile maps and pictures for Braille books  providing library services  digitation and restoration of old audiobooks
13. Slide 20: The Estonian Library for the Blind Holdings  Audiobooks – 2000 titles  Braille books – 600 titles  Tactile books – 50 titles Yearly production  75 titles of audiobooks  60 titles of Braille books  8 titles of talking periodicals
14. Slide 21: Thank you! vaiko@hoiuraamatukogu.ee www.hoiuraamatukogu.ee