Reference and Libraries Australia Search Karen Mackney and David Ong

How can Libraries Australia Search help you and readers with reference enquiries? –Access to hundreds of Australian collections Able to find and get items Obvious Resource sharing advantages –Deep links to other library catalogues Faster access to readily available items –Your readers can now use Libraries Australia Subscription search available in your library Free Libraries Australia searching now available anywhere with internet access

Libraries Australia Subscription Search and Libraries Australia Free Search

SUBSCRIPTION vs FREE Same URL ANBD + More Databases Personal accounts More “Get” options Choice of search screens Save records & queries Alerts Same URL ANBD and PictureAustralia only More limited “Get”options Search history Links Available to anyone with Internet Connection

Finding and Getting items –One search can give access to items in many ways Inter Library loan and Document supply Links to online resources for full text information are more readily available Purchase options through online bookshops

Most importantly of all These Libraries Australia Search Features are: available at no extra cost can be customised to suit your libraries requirements

Advantages of using Libraries Australia Search Three scenarios The typical library user wants the latest by their favourite fiction author The student at home A researcher reviewing a topic

The average reader

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The student at home

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The researcher

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How has Libraries Australia Search supported the three library users? Ease of Inter Library Loan requesting (Enhanced requesting) Personalisation and Libraries Australia Administration functions enabled the following: –Save search strategies for use in later search sessions –Save useful search strategies and create alerts from these.

Libraries Australia Search links to Online Resources with Digital content –Digital content Picture Australia –Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW) Australian Journal Articles (APAIS/APAFT) (With subscription access) Contributing libraries have provided collections of digital images of music, maps, newspapers and manuscripts And other similar collections

More about Personalisation Create your own personal account Choose your own user-id/password Save records and queries into a personal folder Choose which search screen to display on logging in Customise default databases for searching Choose up to three libraries as “your library” Create Alerts Access Enhanced Requesting

Why offer personalisation? Staff and readers can –have their own ‘Accounts’ –have access outside the library –have access to specified databases You can run reports on account use

Getting Help Help Desk online form: Online enquiry formOnline enquiry form By telephone: Keep up to date with enhancements by –Joining an list, or attend a State User Group meeting to keep up to date –Ask the help desk for Libraries Australia Service manuals or brochures for your staff and readers

Libraries Australia Search What are we doing? What can you do? What have we done? Where are we going?

What are we doing? Interface - end user search and traditional Library functions

What are we doing? Continuous refinement

What can you do? Deep Linking - bring the end user to your catalogue Allow End Users to access Libraries Australia

Deep Linking

Deep Linking – Search Results

Deep Linking – Get this item

Deep Linking – Local record

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Deep Linking – Required Information Persistent URL Example searches: –ISBN –ISSN –Author/Title –Title Inform the Libraries Australia Helpdesk

Deep linking example searches: ?session=11887J9N6E &menu=search&aspect =basic_search&npp=10&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=vl&ri= &index=.AW&term=smith&x=0&y=0&aspect=basic_sear chhttp:// ?session=11887J9N6E &menu=search&aspect =basic_search&npp=10&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=vl&ri= &index=.AW&term=smith&x=0&y=0&aspect=basic_sear ch ?session=11887J9N6E &menu=search&aspect =basic_search&npp=10&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=vl&ri= &index=.AW&term=jones&x=0&y=0&aspect=basic_sear ch

End User Access to Libraries Australia Search Subscription model – 2005 End User/Personalised accounts IP Authentication Web Search – HTML box

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What have we done? Open Search Compliance Relevance Ranking

Open Search Compliance What is Open Search? Why implement this?

Open Search Targets

Relevance ranking More relevant results first –Exact phrase or keyword –By or About –Number of Holdings –Etc

Where are we going? Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Library Labs Prototype

Discussion End user vs Library interface? Are we satisfying the needs of our users? Directions Karen Mackney David Ong