LIBRARIES AUSTRALIA FORUM 2008 Emma Corbett Mary-Louise Weight

Libraries Australia for Reference Staff What’s New ? Upgrades to LA Search Getting the most out of Libraries Australia

GovRAP

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Small libraries can now search APAIS through Libraries Australia for FREE

Free Access to APAIS for Small Libraries

Using Limits Group 1 Group 2

Using Limits

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Search Libraries Australia through facebook

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OpenSearch Targets  Powerhouse Museum  National Film and Sound Archive

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LA Search Upgrade - World Cat Holdings

LA Search Upgrade - Permalinks

instead of ?action=Display&mode=fulldisplay&target =nbd&queryid=4&startPos=28http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss ?action=Display&mode=fulldisplay&target =nbd&queryid=4&startPos=28

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Over 43 million items in over 800 Australian libraries The ladies clothing section of F.A.Howard, general merchantCreator: Gale Studio High St MaryboroughCourtesy: Museum Victoria and over 1 million digital images from Picture Australia Libraries Australia Search

End User Access  Personalisation  Alerts  Enhanced Requesting

Personalisation  Reference staff and users can  have their own ‘Accounts’  save records and queries into a personal folder  have access outside the library  have access to specified databases  You can run reports on account use

Create a personal account (for library staff and users) Customise Libraries Australia

the subscription service 32 Customise Libraries Australia Search using limits

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Alerts  Save a search query  Run again automatically  Searches for newly added material or changed records  Search results sent by with links through to ANBD

35 Click on Search History

Save query as alert – s notifications to you 36

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Enhanced Requesting  Links Libraries Australia Search with Libraries Australia Document Delivery  Networked with over 700 libraries.  Mediated by ILL library staff

Most Importantly These Libraries Australia Search features are:  Available at no extra cost  Able to be customised to suit your libraries requirements

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OpenSearch

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Deep Linking

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How we can help you and you can help us………. News Libraries Australia User Group meetings Discussion Lists Libraries Australia promotion material Tell us what you think

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User Group Meetings What’s in it for Reference staff? Are the meetings relevant? Do you go? Why/why not Do you read the minutes of other user group meetings? Do you subscribe to the lists?

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