NOVEL-Ready Library Levels Table

The following table describes three levels of NOVEL-Ready Library criteria for infrastructure (columns 2-3), content (columns 4-5), and training (column 6).

  • The criteria for all three levels are minimum for that level.
  • A library must meet all of the criteria at a given level - infrastructure, content, and training - in order to qualify at that level.
  • Every library - at all three levels - shall provide access via the Internet to its own information resources and to information resources outside the library for both library personnel and users from both inside and outside the library.   It may also use locally determined electronic methods to provide access to resources.
    (1)

Level

          (2)

Mode/Capacity

       of  Internet         Connection

      (3)

Type of Access

Via Internet

          (4)

Content/Access to What from INSIDE Library

(for library's personnel and users primarily by locally determined electronic resources and via the library's Internet connection for external resources)

          (5)

Content/Access to What from OUTSIDE Library

(via an Internet Service Provider using personal account or another library's Internet connection although this does not preclude access by locally determined electronic methods also)

          (6)

Training/Access          Skills
Basic 2000 Dial up 28.8 Kbps line inside library building Text-based Bibliographic records and holdings of the library in a local online catalog and/or system/regional union or virtual catalog; and

Bibliographic records and holdings of other libraries remotely via the Internet, and

Access to the Internet.

 Bibliographic records and holdings of the library in a local online catalog and/or system/regional union or virtual catalog for all New York State residents via the Internet. Introductory training about the use of the Internet and other electronic services for library personnel and users.

 
Advanced Dedicated 56 Kbps line inside library building. Graphical; and

Z39.50 Version 2 - Client and Server.

 Commercial databases and other appropriate added value resources electronically accessible in library and/or remotely via the Internet, and

Digitized resources remotely via the Internet, and

Staff-initiated electronic ordering and/or delivery of documents available in library and/or remotely via the Internet.

 Non-commercial databases and other appropriate added value resources electronically accessible in library for all New York State residents via the Internet, and

Staff-initiated electronic ordering and/or delivery of documents available in library and/or remotely via the Internet for registered borrowers of library.

 Multi-level training about use of the Internet and other electronic services for library personnel and users
Leader Dedicated T1 (1.544 Mbps) line inside library building. Multimedia: and

Z39.50 Version 3 - Client and Server.

 Content in digital format created by, and electronically accessible in, library; and

Multimedia resources electronically accessible in library and remotely via the Internet, and

User-initiated electronic ordering and/or delivery of documents available in library and/or remotely via the Internet.

 Content in digital format created by library and multimedia resources electronically accessible in library for all New York State residents via the Internet, and

User-initiated electronic ordering and/or delivery of documents available in library and/or remotely via the Internet for registered borrowers of library.

 Technology-based training about use of the Internet and other electronic services for library personnel and users.

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Updated 9/27/07