| Abbreviation |
|---|
| DPB |
| English |
| National Library of Education of Denmark |
| Francais |
| Bibliothèque nationale de l'enseignement du Danemark |
| Deutsch |
| Pädagogische Nationalbibliothek Dänemarks |
| History, description, mission statement etc. |
| The DPB was founded in 1887 as a school museum out of which a library
slowly evolved. In 1990, it was merged organizationally with the library
(founded in 1896) of The Royal Danish School of Educational Studies. In
1995 the two libraries were merged physically. The collections are still
separated to some extent, though under the same roof as far as the
collections in Copenhagen are concerned.
The DPB is the main library of The Danish University of Education and also the main national collection in the fields of education, educational systems, educational psychology, the psychology of children and adolescents, and children's literature. It is open to the public and may be used by anyone in need of literature and other materials within our subjects. It is the general policy of the DPB to serve the public in a highly qualified and friendly way. To this end a high level of competence in the staff is stressed and supported by the management. Because of the composition of our users, we place great importance upon our role as a national library. |
| Postal address |
|---|
| P.O. Box 840 2400 Copenhagen NV Denmark |
| Visiting address |
| 164, Tuborgvej 2400 Copenhagen NV |
| Telephone |
| +45 88 88 93 00 |
| Fax |
| +45 88 88 93 90 |
| General e-mail |
| dpb@dpu.dk |
| URL |
| English: http://www.dpb.dpu.dk/site.asp?p=158 |
| Director |
| Søren Carlsen sca@dpu.dk |
| Staff |
|---|
| 44 full-time equivalents |
| Annual budget |
| DKK 26.5 mio. (US$ 4.4 mio.) (2005) |
| Monographs |
|---|
| 797,270 (2004) |
| Serial titles |
| 7,500 (2004) |
| Current serial titles |
| 2,917 (2004) |
| Microforms |
| 613,032 (2004) |
| Electronic documents |
| 648 (2004) |
| Other electronic resources |
| See lists of the library's electronic resources |
| Others |
| Manuscripts: 700 (2004)
Cartographic materials: 955 (2004) Music: 7,630 (2004) Audiovisual materials: 9,870 (2004) |
| 1. Children's literature (approx. 80,000 volumes). In large part
Danish children's books, picture books and comics, but the other
Scandinavian languages and English are well represented too.
2. Educational aids (approx. 50,000 volumes and other materials). Mostly in Danish, including a collection of all aids currently available from Danish publishers. 3. Collection of all ERIC microfiche reports since 1966. |
| English: 25,4%
French: 2,4% German: 8,9% Russian: 0.2% Spanish: 0.3% Danish: 50,0% Other Scandinavian languages: 11,1% Italian: 0.2% All others: 1,5% |
| Name(s) of OPAC(s) |
|---|
| DPBase |
| Coverage of the collections by the OPAC(s) |
| 97% (estimate) of main collections in Copenhagen. Most of the collections of our partner libraries. |
| Telnet-interface(s) |
| No longer available |
| Web-interface(s) |
| DPBase |
| Z39.50-interface(s) |
| Yes |
| Ordering of loans/copies through the OPAC(s) |
| Only possible for registered users. Ordering e-mails are received at doklev@dpu.dk |
| User groups |
|---|
| Figures are estimates
1. Faculty and students at The Danish University of Education (25%) 2. Faculty and students at teacher training colleges (55%) 3. Faculty and students from other educational institutions of higher learning (15%) 4. School teachers from level K to 12, and others (5%) |
| Use restrictions |
| 1. Anybody, of any nationality or age, may use all materials at the
library if they show up themselves. However, the use of the children's
literature collection by children is discouraged, since it is the national
reference collection of children's literature. 90% of all materials are in open stacks. 2. Anybody will be registered as a borrower except persons with no fixed address in Denmark and persons under the age of 18 who will only be registered on dispensation. The dispensation is readily given to foreign students in Denmark. Other persons are usually referred to their institutional or public libraries for ILLs. 3. A small part of the collections consist of old, fragile and/or valuable materials. These may only be used at the library or in the reading rooms of other libraries. |
| Price of loans |
| 1. Personal loans: Free, except when sent to the Greater Copenhagen
area, where the charge per book is DKK 50 (US$ 7,20).
2. ILLs: Free, anywhere in the world. |
| Price of copies |
| 1. Copies made by the library and sent to patrons: Free, except when
sent to the Greater Copenhagen area, where the charge per article is DKK
50 (US$ 7.20).
2. Copies made by patrons: DKK 0.50 (US$ 0.07) per page. 3. ILLs: Free inside Denmark and to members of the NORFRI arrangement. All others: 1 IFLA voucher or 5 international reply coupons per article. |
| Use of electronic documents and services |
| 1. Online services: As a rule, online services are available from the library premises and from all offices of the faculty of the University of
Education. The DPB is the leader of a consortium providing ERIC and
PsycINFO to two universities and their libraries, as well as seven centres for further education and ten smaller institutions of various sorts.
2. CD-ROMs: Bibliographic and factual CD-ROMS are usually only available on the premises; they are not available over the net. When reasonably priced, CD-ROMs are bought with licences making loans and hard copy possible. 3. Others: As with CD-ROMs, other electronic documents are bought with licences making loans and hard copy possible. |
| Other remarks on patron policies |
| None |
| 1. EU Information and
Documentation Centre for Foreign Language Teaching and Learning and
its journal: Sprogforum (Language
forum, journal of linguistic and cultural pedagogics: Partly full text in
English)
2. Centre for Children's Literature. A research centre established in 1998 to facilitate the use of the children's book collection, to promote research in children's literature through meetings, exhibitions and post-graduate studies, and to run a writers' school for authors of children's books. The centre is financed directly from the Department of Education. 3. Legal matter. The plan is to digitize all the legal matter that has governed primary education in Denmark since 1814. In that year it was first enacted that all Danish children must receive instruction in the basic skills of reading, writing, arithmetic, and Lutheran Christianity. Since then, numerous reforms have been introduced, and the collected Acts of Parliament, commission reports, white papers, blue books, instructions from the Department of Education and the like are estimated to consist of 15-20.000 pages. All these we plan to digitize and index in a user-friendly way, making it accessible to students, who very often ask questions to do with these matters. The link will bring you to pages showing how far we've got. (In Danish) |
| 1. Several other large research libraries cover education and
psychology to some extent: The
Royal Library, The
State and University Library, and the University Libraries of South Denmark, Roskilde and Aalborg. The Danish National Library
of Science and Medicine covers clinical psychology extensively.
2. The 60 teacher training colleges of various kinds all have libraries, but most are quite small. Lists of colleges. In Danish. Teacher training colleges are called 'seminarier' in Danish. |
| August 2nd 2005 Jakob Andersen jak@dpu.dk |