Digital Innovation and Service

at National Library of China

Wang, Zhigeng
Department Director
Digital Resource and Service
TheNational Library of China
2010.06.24
 Agenda

NLC Overview

Digital Innovations and Service

 Mission

National Library of China (NLC) is committed to

preserving and sustaining a national record of
knowledge and creativity for future generations
and making its resources and services available
and useful to the nation and it’s people.
 Functions

1R4C:

– National Repository,
– Bibliographic Center
– Ancient Books Preservation and
Conservation Center
– Library Networking and
Computing Center
– R&D Center for LIS
 Priorities
• PRIORITY 1 is to acquire, organize, preserve, secure and sustain a
comprehensive record and memory of Chinese history and creativity;

• PRIORITY 2 is to develop a national repository of human knowledge and

the creative work for the present and future generations;

• PRIORITY 3 is to make its resources and services available and useful to

it’s designed users, and provide convenient and effective access to high
quality library services, collections and information resources in a variety of
formats;

• PRIORITY 4 is to promote the nation’s information literacy by adding

interpretive and educational value to the collection and resources, and to
highlight the importance of the Library's contributions to the nation's future
progress.
 Content Development Principles

General principles :

– Comprehensive collecting Chinese resource, selective

collecting foreign language resource

– Comprehensive collecting domestic resource, selective

collecting overseas resource

– More titles, less copies

 Collections
• Physical: 28 Million items.
• Books: 11 million
• Journal: 13 million
• Newspapers: 209 thousand,
• Microfilms: 1.4 million
• Audiovisuals:190 thousand
• CD-ROMs: 40 thousand
• Others: 2.5 million
• Digital: 340+ TB.
• e-books: 1.2 Million
• e-Journals: 50,000+
• e-Newspapers: 3050+
• E-Dissertations: 5 million
• Rare books: 1.4 million
• Images: 50 thousand
• Audio: 45 thousand hours
• Video: 50 thousand hours
• And …
 Statistics
• 101-Year History
• From 09/09/1909
• 3 Buildings：
• Wenjin（Rare lib）
• Main（Research lib）
• New（Public lib）
• Opening days:
• 363 days per year
• 9:00 am. – 9:00 pm.
• Users:
• 260 thousand registered users
• 5.2 million on-site users per
year
• Librarians:
• 2000+
 Targets

congress
community

education and
research community

Library community

General Public
 Agenda

NLC Overview

Digital Innovations and Service

 Digital Service
Web based Service
– Digital Library
 Digital CD Approach
– Legal depositing (statutory right)
• Web Harvesting
• Online depositing
– Purchasing and subscription (commercial licensing)
• Acquisition of the perpetual access right or ownership of the digital content such as ebooks (raw
data or perpetual access);
• Periodic subscription to commercial resources, such as e-journals, FT databases, encyclopedia,
– Collection digitization (format conversion)
• Rare collection online (ancient books, manuscripts, maps, oracle bones, …)
• Media digitization (Sound recordings, pictures and motion pictures )
– Web Navigation (linking level)
• Scholarly information which is freely available on the web
• Subject-based information gateways and portals
• Online Research tools
• Open Access resources,
– Digital Archiving (for future use)
• Web archiving (Chinese domain, and web resources in Chinese or on China or by Chinese)
• Dark archive for commercial resources;
• Light archive for open access resources;
Copyright and Digitization
Digitized Resources
 Digitization Timeline

• 1987，MARC Record cataloging,

• 1987，CD-ROM/DVD acquisition,
• 1997, NLC website formal release,
• 2000，Rare Collection Digitization,
• 2002, New ILS (Aleph) launch,
• 2003, Web Archiving (WICP) Program launch,
• 2004, NLC Resource Portal (Metalib) and Link resolver (SFX) launch,
• 2007, Union Discovery Interface disclose,
• 2008, DAMS,
• 2009, ERMS,
• 2010, DPS …
 Infrastructure
NLC Website

Library Portal(Metalib) / Metasearch

Wiki Mobile

DRM
Blog DTV
CRM

ILS OA DPS E-Resource

Email VRD
Aleph Repository access

OA ELS

Link Resolver(SFX)

ERMS(Verde)
 Oracle Bones

Elevation image

6075 bones and 5273 rubbings

Opposite image
 Dunhuang Materials

16,000 bib records, 740 manuscripts, 18,406 images

 Xixia Literature

124 bib records, 4909 images, 9793 pages from 1201 titles
Rubbings

23,995 stone rubbings

 Local Chronicles

Digitized image

Fulltext version 6,868 image titles, 2000 full-text titles

New Year Pictures

734 images
Doctorial Dissertations

13,828,220 pages from109,392 titles

 Books
• Ancient books
• Public domain books
• Minguo books
• In-copyright books
• WenJin Award Books
 Digital Service
Web based Service
– Visual impairment Library
 Digital Service
Web based Service
– 3D exhibition
 Digital Service
Web based Service
– Web Archive
 Digital Service
Web based Service
– Kids Digital Library
 Digital Service
Web based Service
– Vedio Programs
 Digital Service
Web based Service
– Virtual Library
 CMMB
WEB CATV

Mobile
IPTV
Phone

E-book Touch
Reader Library

A-book
POD
DAB

cdlvi DTV
 Digital Service
• Mobile device based Service
• Mobile Phone
 Digital Service
• Mobile device based Service
• Mobile Phone
• E-book reader
 Digital Service
• Onsite innovative Service
• RFID based
– Circulation
– Learning and education
 Digital Service
• Onsite innovative Service
• RFID based

• Touch Library
– Adult Terminal
– Kids Terminal
Digital Television based service
 Many Thanks!

Enjoy your treasure discovery journey

by visiting our web site at
http://www.nlc.gov.cn
at anytime, anywhere!