Report to the Libraries Australia Forum 6 November 2009 Warwick Cathro Assistant Director-General Resource Sharing & Innovation

Divisional Strategic Plan 2

Cataloguing CBS software: Release 4.1 (November 2008) –export using SRU Record Update –improved script and Unicode support CBS software: Release 5.0 (by March 2010) –import of data, using SRU Record Update, from WorldCat and from local library systems Resource Description & Access (RDA): –Libraries Australia will support the creation and exchange of RDA compliant data –RDA standard is expected in early 2010 –implementation by Library of Congress not yet announced 3

Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Libraries Australia now contributing to VIAF quarterly Future potential for global authority data sharing 4

The Australian National Bibliographic Database Currently 20M bibliographic records, 47M holdings Global holdings updates for 68 member libraries in 2008/09 Commenced a project to harvest 180,000 Tables of Contents from Library of Congress ANBD Coverage Survey: –responses have been followed up with university and state libraries –map collection issues have been followed up –in 2010 there will be a focus on special collections 5

Removal of duplicate records So far 50,000 duplicates have been removed using the CBS software Removal using ISBN matching has commenced 2500 duplicates will be removed each night for at least 3 months 6

Document Delivery Last year: 318,000 ILL requests (up 3%) Major program of ISO ILL inter-operability testing continues VDX software: Release (Dec. 2008) –drop down action menu –simplified reporting –pop-up calendars VDX software: Release 4.1 (by March 2010) –improved user interface Discussions with OCLC on inter-operability with WorldCat Resource Sharing 7

Document Delivery statistics 8

Search 15.8M searches in 2008/09 (increase of 10.5%) Performance issues with Libraries Australia Search Release 2.4 (Q2 2009) –Access to the Maps of Australia service –Additional online bookshops –Copyright status feature –COinS support –read more at What’s New: 9

Search statistics 10

Relationship with OCLC Support for CBS and VDX software Collaborative Services Agreement: –running for more than two years –searches of WorldCat now over 1M per year –synchronisation with WorldCat via SRU Record Update implemented in January 2009 –read more at: Discussions commenced on ILL network interconnection 11

Asia Pacific Regional Council 12

Supporting and communicating with members Our Help Desk –over 8,800 enquiries answered in 2008/09 New customer enquiry management system (RefTracker) The 2009 Roadshow program – see the presentation at #Roadshow #Roadshow E-newsletter - read them all at newsletter-archive.html Talk to your colleagues in the ning discussion space – how to join at documents/Ning.pdf Visits to university libraries 13

E-newsletter 14

Ning page 15

Implementation of the subscription model Rationale for the subscription model In 2009: –Special libraries –School libraries –Commercial members In 2010: –University library review –TAFE libraries –Overseas members Read more at 16

Trove The Library’s preferred service for end user discovery of Australian collections Full implementation this month Decommissioning of legacy services Use of FRBR-like version and work clustering Development plans for 2010 Incorporation of collection summaries into Trove Read more at 17

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Sample collection summary record Leader/ / *****nim##22*****#a# i qeannn############rneng#d ##$aQSCL$cQSCL 2#$aSunshine Coast Libraries 00$aOral histories ##$aMaroochydore, Qld. :$bSunshine Coast Regional Council,$c $3Collection summary $uhttp:// e=oral-histories 856$3 special phrase triggers indexing Leader/06 determines the category (music, sound, video)

Sample collection summary record Ldr nam a22 7a 4500‬ ‬ 003 AuCNLKIN‬ ‬ 006 m h ‬ 007 cr || ||||||||‬ s2008 qea eng d‬ 040 ‎$a‬QSCL‎$c‬QSCL‬ 042 ‎$a‬anuc‬ ‎$a‬Sunshine Coast Libraries‬ ‎$a‬Oral histories‎$h‬[electronic resource]‬ 260 ‎$a‬Maroochydore, Qld. :‎$b‬Sunshine Coast Regional Council,‎$c‬c2008.‬ 520 ‎$a‬Personal reminiscences of older residents of an area are an important historical resource. The Heritage Library has a collection of over 80 such oral histories. These stories of men and women, many of whom have now passed away, tell of what life was like on the Sunshine Coast before the availability of electricity, medical services, transportation systems and communications. - of how they coped in difficult situations, established cane farms and fruit orchards, drove cane trains, walked to school, celebrated holidays.‬ 538 ‎$a‬Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Available at:‎$u‬ ‎$3‬Collection summary‎$u‬ histories

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