Hessian library information system

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The Hessian Library Information System ( HeBIS ) is the electronic information and service network of academic libraries in Hesse and the Rheinhessen region in Rhineland-Palatinate .

organization

Organizationally, HeBIS is integrated into the state's universities; The university library Johann Christian Senckenberg of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main is in charge . The HeBIS information technology department is the technical service center (until 2007 as the "library data processing department" part of the university computer center and therefore housed in its premises). The HeBIS network headquarters is the library service center, located on the premises of the UB.

HeBIS is based on a central network database in Frankfurt am Main with six local subsystems (at the universities of Darmstadt , Frankfurt am Main, Giessen , Kassel , Marburg , Mainz ) using the internationally distributed library software from OCLC PICA .

The spectrum of participating institutions is diverse: University and college libraries , institute and special libraries , state and city ​​libraries have joined HeBIS in order to be able to perform their tasks more efficiently by using central services. The number of independent large libraries actively cataloging in the network is z. At present 25. The HeBIS network database currently contains a total of over 40 million data records, including around 15 million titles in all forms of publication (including electronic media) with over 23 million records from a total of 638 libraries of all sizes in the region.

tasks

HeBIS started in 1987 as a pure online cataloging network, since then the tasks and goals have expanded fundamentally. Today HeBIS offers a comprehensive service for libraries and users based on user-configured library software with all function modules for high-performance and cost-effective library management using international standards:

  • Provision and maintenance of central cataloging and evidence databases including external, standard and retro data
  • Provision and maintenance of a central network portal with authentication routine, database selection, metasearch, availability research and integrated order component
  • Provision and maintenance of local portal views according to individual local framework conditions
  • Provision and maintenance of a network OPAC with a user-friendly interface
  • Provision and maintenance of network-internal and cross-network interlibrary loan functions in cooperation with the other network systems
  • Organization and implementation of coordinated, inexpensive acquisition of electronic journals and databases as part of the HeBIS consortium
  • Structure of full text servers
  • System development and maintenance; Library-related, organizational and technical support
  • Supervision of the HeBIS network libraries through application-related work aids and work materials, training and further education measures, technical and organizational assistance, publication of an online journal on the HeBIS network ("hebiscocktail"), extensive information on the HeBIS website
  • active participation in standardization and regulatory work
  • Planning and coordination of projects

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. HeBis website ; Retrieved July 9, 2012