Last updated: 12.03.2010
Information in English about DanBib and library.dk
This is a documentation site for the Danish union catalogs:
bibliotek.dk (for the public) and DanBib (for professionals - requires a password).
It is a very abbrieviated English version of the Danish part of the site www.danbib.dk.
The intention is to link to DBC information about DanBib and bibliotek.dk in English where it is available.
bibliotek.dk - library.dk
DanBib, netpunkt and Zpunkt
Articles and papers
Access via Z39.50
Webservices
Standards
Contact
bibliotek.dk - library.dk
bibliotek.dk is the OPAC to the union catalog for all Danish libraries.DBC maintains and develops bibliotek.dk.
Styrelsen for Bibliotek og medier (The Danish National Library Authority) is in charge of bibliotek.dk. It is financed by the Danish government.
What does bibliotek.dk contain?
At bibliotek.dk you will find all items that have been published in Denmark and all items found in the stock of the Danish public libraries. These items can be borrowed from the libraries. As of July 2009, the database contains 11 million items. The database is updated daily.
Among other things, bibliotek.dk contains records of:
- items from the stock of the Danish public libraries and research libraries: books, periodicals, newspapers, music, sheet music, video tapes/DVDs, CD-ROMs, audio books etc.
- all books, periodicals and newspapers published in Denmark since 1970 (as well as many items published before this date)
- major articles published in newspapers and periodicals since 1945
- reviews published in newspapers and periodicals since 1990
Statistics - visits and visitors (in Danish)
Statistics - ill (in Danish)
User surveys (in Danish)
Read more in bibliotek.dk's about-file (in English)
Presentations
- Short introduction to bibliotek.dk (18 PowerPoint slides) (2010)
- Automated ILL (16 Power Point slides) (2007)
- FRBR used to display records in library.dk (15 PowerPoint slides) (2007)
- bibliotek.dk in Google (Presentation from the 7th Nordic NVBF-ILL-Conference, October 2006)
- ILL automation - Danbib, bibliotek.dk and the local libraries (Presentation from the 7th Nordic NVBF-ILL-Conference, October 2006)
- Effective and automated handling of end user requests in Danish National Union catalogue (Presentation from the 10th Interlending and Document Supply Conference in Singapore, October 2007 -16 PowerPoint slides).
DanBib, netpunkt and Zpunkt
DBC is in charge of the infrastructure for libraries in Denmark.netpunkt.dk is the gateway to DanBib and other databases and services for the information professionals. Requires a password - contact Customer support.
netpunkt.dk gives access to DanBib and other DBC-databases, Bibsys, Libris and WorldCat.
DanBib is the Danish union catalog with requesting and downloading facilities.
What does DanBib contain?
At DanBib you will find all items that have been published in Denmark and all items found in the stock of the Danish public libraries. As of September 2009, the database contains 30 million items. The database is updated daily.
Among other things, DanBib contains records of:
- items from the stock of the Danish public libraries and research libraries: books, periodicals, newspapers, music, sheet music, video tapes/DVDs, CD-ROMs, audio books etc.
- all books, periodicals and newspapers published in Denmark since 1970 (as well as many items published before this date)
- major articles published in newspapers and periodicals since 1945
- reviews published in newspapers and periodicals since 1990
- records from Library of Congress
- records from the British National Bibliography -2008
Statistics - ill (in Danish)
Presentations
- Short introduction to DanBib (15 PowerPoint slides) (2009)
- Automated ILL (16 Power Point slides) (2007)
- DanBib/netpunkt: New usages of ILL standards and technologies (Presentation from the 7th Nordic NVBF-ILL-Conference, October 2006)
- netpunkt.dk Introduction to the Danish Union Catalog – professional version (Presentation from the 7th Nordic NVBF-ILL-Conference, October 2006)
- ILL automation - Danbib, bibliotek.dk and the local libraries (Presentation from the 7th Nordic NVBF-ILL-Conference, October 2006)
Articles and papers:
- Danish union catalogue DanBib and library.dk – "physical" and "virtual" union catalogue (pdf) - paper presented at the 9th IFLA Interlending and Document Supply International Conference in Tallinn, September 2005.
- Effective and automated handling of end user requests in Danish National Union catalogue - paper presented at the 10th Interlending and Document Supply Conference in Singapore, October 2007.
- Bibliotek.dk: opening the Danish union catalogue to the public - article by Kirsten Larsen in Interlending & Document Supply, vol. 35, nr.4, 2007, p. 205-210 - only access for Emerald Customers.
Access via Z39.50:
bibliotek.dk
Present formats include danMARC2 and MARC21.
A description of how to configure your Z39.50-client is available at
Z39.50 access to bibliotek.dk - technical parametres
DanBib
From Zpunkt (V3 target) you can access DanBib - the Danish national bibliography and the Danish union catalogue.
Present formats include danMARC2 and MARC21. Zpunkt conforms to the danZIG profile. Zpunkt uses IdPass authentication (user, group and password), and supports open authentication (user/group and password).
A description of how to configure your Z39.50-client is available at
Configuration of a Z39.50-client
Webservices
Webservice to bibliotek.dk (in Danish)Standards
Used standards in DBC databases and services (in Danish)Contact
Contact about general information about bibliotek.dk and DanBib: Kirsten LarsenContact about FRBR display: Paul B. Jensen
Contact about ILL: Anders-Henrik Petersen and Rikke Lose
Contact z-access: Tommy Schomacker
