The planned Library network System
between the Ministries
and other suprême Fédéral Authorities in Bonn*
Wolfgang D I E T Z
Samenvatting. — De planning van een bibliotheeknetwerk tussen ministeries en federale
hoofdbesturen te Bonn.
In Bonn wordt gewerkt aan de uitbouw van een geautomatiseerd netwerk tussen twintig
bibliotheken van ministeries en federale hoofdbestuurseenheden. De leidende en centra-
liserende rol berust bij de bibliotheek van de Bundestag. Hier staat ook de centrale computer,
door terminals verbonden met de aangesloten bibliotheken. De samenwerking moet uitein-
delijk leiden tot standardisai, rationalisatie en een grotere dienstverlening. Men hoopt mid-
den 1979 te kunnen starten met een test-programma voor drie bibliotheken. De resultaten
hiervan moeten uitsluitsel geven over de vereder toepassing van het systeem.
Summary. win Bonn an automated network, linking the libraries of twenty ministries and
other suprême Fédéral Authorities is being set up.
The Bundestag Library will assume direction and control, and provide the necessàry
centralisation : it also is the seat of the computer installation, from which branch out the
links to the twenty terminais.
It is hoped these arrangements will achieve a first-rate service, as well as an apt stan-
dardization and rationalization.
It is also planned to have a m (three libraries) running by the moddle of 1979. The
outcome of this should then détermine the final structure and manipulation of the total
System.
Ladies and gentlemen!
When Mr. Grootaers visited me in Bonn a few months ago, I offered
to give a talk to the staff of his library on the envisaged library network
System in Bonn. At a later stage, Mr. Grootaers came forward with the idea
of extending the audience to include the members of the ‘Section on
Parliamentary Libraries’. I agreed to this suggestion even though our in-
terconnected System of libraries has not been completed yet. In fact, we are
at present only embarking on the second phase which will mean working
out the details and technicalities of the network scheme. In other words, we
are still far from having soled ail the problems which such a project
automatically entails.
Deze tekst werd voorgedragen op 8 september 1977 tijdens het IFLA-congres te Brussel
m de zitting Parliamentary Libraries’.
36	/ Bibliotheekgids—Jg. 54 — Nr. 1^-1978