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One of the top-3 institutions in the
Netherlands
Aim : collections used in research and
education
By students, teachers, researchers, and a
general public of culturally interested
people
International orientation
The special collections are also part of
our national and international heritage
Special Collections UB Leiden
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Goal: create better access
Program consisting of 3 projects :
Conversion of all special collections metadata
to OCLC’s Union Catalogue,
1 system for cataloguing all collections
Service digitisation on demand, built on
PRIMO
View requests of all special collections through
our catalogue (no paper slips)
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Step 1:
Conversion of the metadata to
OCLC’s union Catalogue
• Separate records for physical and digital
objects
• In separate batches
• With links to the scans in DigiTool
• New formats were created
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Step 2:
Digitisation on demand service
• Create order buttons in our catalogue (PRIMO)
• FTP server for delivery to client
• Connection to payment system
• Automatic export to DigiTool
• Implementation of
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Step 4:
Create holdings and items
• Taylor-made for various collections
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Step 4:
Create holdings and items
• Taylor-made for various collections
• In the meantime: workaround for materials
without holdings & items