The emphasis is on collecting
Country Main tasks Institution Libraries served
Finland To store and make
available material
transferred from libraries
National Repository
Library
All libraries and
information centres
Norway To store transferred
material from other
libraries; receive one legal
deposit copy; make these
available for libraries
Repository Library of the
National Library, Mo i
Rana
All libraries in Norway
UK British Library acts as
last resort library for
monographs; UKRR
arranges storage and
availability of serials
British Library United
Kingdom Research
Reserve
All research libraries
Francea To collect books and
other documents that
have national heritage or
scientific value
Centre technique du livre
de l’enseignment
supe´rieur (CTLes)
Universities in Ile de
France area in Paris
Spain/Catalonia To store and preserve
low-use documents,
ensuring its future
preservation and
accessibility
Guaranteed Space for the
Preservation of Access
(GEPA)
Universities of Catalonia
Note: Under the aegis of the Universite´ de Lyon higher education and research consortium (PRES)
and in cooperation with the city public library, university libraries are working together to implement
a new shared repository with the double goal of easing the pressure on current storage space, allowing
for a sustained growth of paper collections, and at the same time providing the infrastructure for a
shared collections policy in Lyon and its region from 2013 onwards
Table II.
Examples of different
European repositories
Collection for
use or for
preservation
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