1. Libraries Australia Annual Report 2006/2007 Tony Boston Assistant Director-General Resource Sharing National Library of Australia

2. Outline Libraries Australia status Service update: –Search –Document Delivery –ANBD development –Data syndication Strategic Plan 2007 – 2010 NLA – OCLC agreement

3. Libraries Australia status Libraries Australia services bedded down Search and Document Delivery enhancements Web site and documentation refresh Service usage growth Subscriptions growth and new models Stakeholder and practitioner survey Systems issue – February/ March 2007 –Now fixed with 99.7% availability since then

4. Libraries Australia Search Improved relevance ranking Support for OpenSearch Extended deep linking Free search box for any web page

5. OpenSearch

6. Search activity

7. Libraries Australia Document Delivery Increased membership More ISO ILL-compliant sites Alerts emails More document delivery requests –21% increase –Trans Tasman Interlending 7318 items supplied to NZ libraries 2931 items supplied to Australian libraries

8. Document Delivery requests

9. ANBD Development 4.8 million bibliographic and/or holdings records processed through the Record Import Service (RIS) 200,000 records reviewed 20 libraries joined RIS Data improvement projects EAG on Electronic Resources

10. Database growth

11. Data syndication Google.com Google Book Search Google Scholar OCLC Worldcat.org

12. From Google.com…

13. From Google Book Search …

14. Find this book in a library…

15. …in Dublin, Ohio

16. … in Brisbane, Queensland

18. Libraries Australia Links

20. Links from search engines

21. Libraries Australia strategic plan 2007-2010 Environmental scan: –Search engines are first port of call –Increased use of licensed e-resources –User access expectations increasing –Search then browse paradigm for OPACs –Social networking: user contribution builds engagement –Global, national and local metadata aggregations increase ‘gravitational pull’ of libraries

22. Libraries Australia strategic plan 2007-2010 Strategic priorities: –Improve database currency, quality, coverage and review scope –Enhance Libraries Australia services –Maintain and develop business models and relationships –Improve management of directory data and user administration

23. Improve the ANBD Implement automated duplicate removal Support batch loading of authority records Continue discussions to improve coverage of library holdings Continue data syndication to increase usage

24. Enhance Libraries Australia services Introduce new search features: –Improved relevance ranking –Clustering –Faceted browse –Local library and consortial views –New integrated discovery service based on ‘national data store’ => Improved Libraries Australia services targeting library needs

25. NLA–OCLC agreement Cataloguing and search access to WorldCat Exposure of ANBD content –Open WorldCat program –WorldCat.org –Cross-synchronisation of records FirstSearch and OCLC ILL access not included RLG Catalogue & SCIPIO migrated to WorldCat Libraries become governing members of OCLC Benefits from OCLC/RLG research programs

26. Implementation status Access to WorldCat available via Libraries Australia (completed) Preparing for ANBD record load (now) Fix related to Z39.50 and Libraries Australia Search view of Australian holdings in WorldCat (November) Synchronisation in real time (~2008)

27. Libraries Australia Search (TeraText) Libraries Australia Cataloguing (CBS) LOGLOG PUSH SRU UPDATE WorldCat identifiers, work ids WorldCat SRU UPDATE OCLC Online Computer Library Center

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