The National Library of Finland Bulletin 2012

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY

of Finland Bulletin 2012

EDITORIAL

Kai Ekholm
If there is a will, there is a way!
Users have a full right to expect to receive the national heritage in their daily environment. Our mission is to ensure the availability of the published national heritage in the community.
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IN BRIEF

A paradigm shift – from closed systems to open solutions. Developing library system services in Finland

Shifting gears on the road towards the National Digital Library

From the Finnish National Union Catalogue to the National Metadata Repository: The development of MELINDA

The next generation library system – The planning phase

National Library of Finland has a new strategy focus on the digital services and use

Facts and statistics

International cooperation

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Tuomas Heikkilä Research on parchment fragments In March 2012, the National Library of Finland launched a research database of its collection of mediaeval parchment fragments. This internationally important collection includes more than 9,300 parchment leaves from the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries to the 16th century. read more »
Marleena Vihakara Conservation and digitisation of the mediaeval parchment fragment collection read more »		Juha Hakala The digitisation of mediaeval manuscripts – technical issues and solutions read more »
Matti Hosio The National Library's Comellus project creates new skills and solutions for digital access and the long-term preservation of printed publications The National Library of Finland's Mikkeli-based Centre for Preservation and Digitisation is creating a new technique for the electronic deposit and receipt of newspapers as well as processes related to the microfilming and provision of access to newspapers received in digital format.
Juha Korvenpää Digital preservation of cassette tapes Since 1981, recordings published in Finland have been deposited by law in the National Library of Finland. At the beginning of this period, the CD was yet to be introduced on the market, and vinyl records and cassette tapes (also known as Compact Cassettes, audio cassettes or simply cassettes or tapes) were the most popular recording formats.