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Quality charter scientific libraries - booksellers 
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The Chapter of the 24th December 1993, concerning the government orders and some commissions on the acceptance of works, deliveries and services (B.S. 22/01/1994), which became effective on the 1th May 1997, provides for the submittance of a quotation, in the case the command exceeds 200 000 BEF. For higher amounts even more complex procedures will be applied. The rigid application of this Chapter may lead to an over-concentration on the price, to the detriment of other criteria such as quality and service. To restore the balance, the public libraries have formulated a charter in which quality criteria that are typical for a good relationship with the booksellers, are included. The scientific libraries have the same concern. Therefore, the VOWB, together with the Flemish Booksellers Union, has taken a simular inititative that should lead to the drawing up of a quality charter, encouraging the relationship between scientific libraries and booksellers. A questionnaire was sent tot the members of the VOWB, and hereby they were polled about the experiences of their delivery services with the Flemish scientific booksellers. Almost 52 % of the circularized questionnaires was completed. On 29th March 1999 a first meeting with the scientific libraries was organized. On 26th April a secund meeting followed, this thime with the booksellers themselves. In 2000 assemblies were arranged on the 18th Januar, the 23th Februar and the 26th April, each time with the booksellers. The result was a first draft for the quality charter  (in Dutch only).
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| Pro Virlib
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Starting year: 1997 In Flanders the VOWB will distribute and amplify the results of VIRLIB, a federal project of the Royal Library, the libraries of the University of Antwerp and the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the IRIS company (ProVIRLIB). During the first phase of the VIRLIB project (1995-1997) a number of studies were carried out and a first prototype of application for document delivery was realized. During the secund phase of the VIRLIB II project (1998-1999), to a great extent the VirLib application was rewritten on the base of the new available experiences by the use of the prototype and on the base of a number of new perceptions. The ProVIRLIB project (1999-2000) is intended tot develop the VIRLIB application in the other Belgian libraries. So VIRLIB will be installed in all the libraries that can be considered as important Belgian document suppliers. In addition to the Royal Library, these are:
Publications: J. Corthouts, Documentleverantie in een elektronische omgeving, in: Bibliotheek- en archiefgids, 73 (1997), p. 171-176. J. Corthous / J. Van Borm / R. Philips, VirLib: elektronische documentleverantie in Impala, in: Bibliotheek- en Archiefgids, 3 (2000), p. 14-21. |
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| STCV
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Starting year: 1997 The project Short-Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV) aims at composing a retrospective electronic catalogue of all dutch publications, printed in Flanders in the first half of the 17th century. Since 1982 the Royal Library of the Netherlands works at STCN , a short title catalogue of all prints of 1540-1800, developped on the current Dutch territory (without regard to te language), or in the Dutch language (irrespective of the place of the printing business), with the exception of those prints that originated on the soil of the current Belgium. This exception was made, because one expected Flanders to take a similar initiative. With grant of SABIDO (Vlaams-Nederlands Samenwerkingsverband op het gebied van Bibliotheek- en Documentatiewezen - Flemish-Dutch Union for the Library and Documentation System) a pre-investigation was made. This resulted - among other things - in a total conformity between the Belgian and the Dutch method for title description, so that STCV and STCN fit in with each other. On base of the results of this investigation a pilot project of three years, directed at prints of the first half of the 17th century, is chosen. The VOWB has accepted the STCV-project as one of its action ites for the next years, which involves that the VOWB will follow up the duties of the STCV. For the project will necessitate that old collections of different scientific libraries in Flanders are mapped (partially). The Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union) was found prepared to fund the pre-investigation (1997-1998). In the end of 1999 the Max Wildiers Fonds, part of the Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Vlaanderen (FWO) announced to be willing to fund the project. Thanks to this funding two scientific collaborators could be appointed for the carrying out of this project for a period of four years (2000-2004). For the first two years they will describe the Dutch 17th centurty's prints of the libraries in Antwerp, Gent and Leuven. This project is supervised by Pierre Delsaerdt, Central Library, University of Antwerp, UFSIA. |
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| Antilope
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Starting year: 1995 ANTILOPE, ANTILOPE, the Belgian union catalogue of periodicals, was originally conceived as a catalogue of current periodicals. The Flemish libraries expressed the wish to extend ANTILOPE, following the Dutch example, into a complete union catalogue, which would include ceased and cancelled periodicals. So, a practical tool for the future weeding of the periodical holdings could be established at all the same. With a budget of 4.850.000 BEF from the Flemish government for the project, as well as an even greater investment from the participating libraries, the large historical collections of the Central University Libraries of Louvain and Ghent and those of the City Library of Antwerp were entered in ANTILOPE in 1995 and 1996. Within the scope of the ANTILOPE plan, the periodical collections of Flemish higher education libraries were also included. Thanks to this initiative, ANTILOPE’s records gained almost 100.000 new titles. Also the periodicals of the TU Delft, The Dutch Institute for Scientific Information services (KNAW-NIWI), the university of Agriculture Wageningen (BLUW), the British Library Document Supply Center (BLSDC), the Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (KOLNMED) and the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) are brought in in Antilope. ANTILOPE as a catalogue is inserted in the UCBRL (Union Catalogue of Belgian Research Libraries). ANTILOPE is an essential part in the extension of the Flemish digital library services, because of the importance of it for document supply. |
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Quality charter scientific libraries - booksellers