Institution:
Danish National Library Authority
in cooperation
with the
Ministry of Culture,
Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
Copenhagen
Address:
The Danish National Library Authority
DEFF secretariat Nyhavn 31 E
1051 Copenhagen K
Tel.: +45 33 73 33 73
Fax: +45 33 73 33 72
Contact person:
Bo Öhrström
Tel: 9635 7304 |
The Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF)
is based on cooperation
between the
Ministry of Culture, the
Ministry of Education and the
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
The project is headed by a steering group with the
Danish National Library Authority acting as the secretariat.
It is a cooperative venture
of several research libraries.
The DEFF embraces a number
of projects and progressive assignments within IT, research, education and
library development. The overall aim of these activities is to improve the
application of IT with a view to supporting research and education.
The six DEFF programme areas are:
·
User facilities
·
E-learning
·
E
-publishing
·
Licenses
·
Portals
·
System architecture
Various projects are aimed at developing new tools and methods
for further development of the libraries’ service to the user as well as tools
which support the end user’s handling of information resources.
The focus is on
e-learning, information literacy and SBIGs.
Objective
The main objective of the
project is to support Danish research and education by strengthening the
development of the Danish research libraries and creating a coherent and simple
access to the information resources of these libraries.
DEF – information
supply to Danish research and education
DEF is a collaborative
organisation which develops information supply to (and from) Danish
research and education.
Target groups
Researchers, lecturers
and students at universities, institutions of higher education
and research institutions within the public sector.
The DEF and the Danish
National Library Authority
· make
available digital learning resources via the DEFF-portal,
a directory with access to the libraries’ own homepages, catalogues of the
libraries’ holdings, electronic journals, digital material databases, and
subject-based link collections, and by developing subject gateways;
·
provide grants to a number
of projects that develop new forms of user education and support.
COMPLETED PROJECTS
·
FlexDef
– integration of DEF in the net education project Flexnet
·
MILE (Model for Information
Literacy Education)
·
Problem-based teaching of advanced information and literature
search
·
SWIM
(Streaming Webbased Information Modules)
·
User Education Community – an option for the users of the business economics
subject gateway, BIZ*I*Gate
(in Danish)
·
User satisfaction in the electronic libraries
(in Danish)
ONGOING
PROJECTS
·
The
library as an active learning partner
·
E-support
tool for information literacy
·
Learning
Objects Web
Keywords:
research libraries – research
and education support – digital library – digital learning resources – user
education – user support – user satisfaction – information literacy – e-learning
- information and literature searching - libraries' role - active learning -
learning objects |
