Transcript Libraries Australia Report and Strategic Directions

Libraries Australia Report and
Strategic Directions
Tony Boston
Assistant Director-General
Resource Sharing
Outline
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Transition to Libraries Australia
Report on Libraries Australia - 2005/2006
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Services
Membership
Database growth
Usage
Libraries Australia developments
Strategic directions
Kinetica Redevelopment Project
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Two year project in 2003-2005
Completed in November 2005 on time and
under budget
New service branded Libraries Australia:
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Libraries Australia Search
Libraries Australia Cataloguing
Libraries Australia Administration
Libraries Australia Document Delivery
Libraries Australia achievements
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Improved performance
Capacity to innovate
Unicode support – CJK data in the ANBD
Efficiencies in cataloguing, record import and
export
Reliable platform for libraries to contribute data:
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Viable suppliers, assured future
Modular architecture reduces future risk
Roman and non-roman scripts supported
Financial benefits
Evaluation
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Kinetica Redevelopment Project
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Post Implementation Review
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http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/documents/post_implementationreview.pdf
Libraries Australia
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Customer and Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey
End User Survey
Libraries Australia business model
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Supported by subscriptions of Australian
libraries
All Australian State, Territory, university and
most special, government and public libraries
July 2005 new subscription model introduced
allowing unlimited searching resulting in
increased use
Membership
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Libraries Australia
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More than 1,100 members
84 new libraries in 05/06
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8 individuals
22 public libraries from Western Australia
Libraries Australia Document Delivery
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More than 660 members
79 new libraries in 05/06
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47 public libraries from NSW (former ILANET users)
Australian National Bibliographic Database growth
Database Searches
10,000,000
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2001/2002
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Document Delivery Requests
275,000
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Australian National Bibliographic Database
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About 42 million holdings
Over 16 million bibliographic records
Over 600,000 online resources
Over 10 million searches
Almost 230,000 items requested through the
document delivery service
Libraries Australia free service
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Launched by Senator Coonan on 27 February
2006 at Parliament House, Canberra
Regional launches in Geraldton, WA; Alice
Springs, NT; Cairns, Qld and Burnie, Tas.
Find then get items by:
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Accessing them online
Borrowing them from your local library
Borrowing them from another library
Buying a copy through Copies Direct
Buying them from an online bookshop
~10% of searches since its launch
2005/2006 searches
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Subscription
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Free
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Target
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ANBD via Internet search engines
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NLA is exposing ANBD content to Google
and Yahoo!
ANBD records now in Google Scholar and
Google Book Search
More pathways, more users
Google links to Libraries Australia
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Number of click throughs
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1 July - 20 October 2006
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Improving our services
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ANBD Quality Improvement Plan
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New search targets
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Five CJK databases added
Support for new scripts
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Data migration
Record Import Service
CJK, Thai
Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Tamil (in process)
New ways of obtaining records
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Serial Solutions
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Libraries Australia Search
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Five releases in 2005/2006
Cover art
Personalisation
Deep linking to national, state, university libraries
Links to more booksellers
Libraries Australia Cataloguing
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Ease of use
Templates and context sensitive help
Improving our services [3]
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Trans Tasman Interlending
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NLA & NLNZ collaboration to allow seamless
interlending between Australian and New Zealand
libraries
1 March – 30 June 2006
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~ 1600 items supplied to NZ libraries
~ 300 items supplied to Australian libraries
Improving our services [4]
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RLG site licence negotiated for 2006/2007
OCLC small libraries agreement extended
Strategic directions
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Libraries Australia business plan – 2007-2010
Improved finding
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Improved getting
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Relevance ranking
Results clustering
Links to local library catalogues & booksellers
Links to full-text, eg Google Book Search, Amazon
Better fulfilment
User annotation
Software platform
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Increase use of Libraries Australia
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ANBD coverage and quality
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Search box
New targets: RMIT e-library, MediText, AGIS
OpenSearch: Cultural collections
Article level metadata?
Schools data
Duplicate removal
Better match/merge
Relationship with OCLC
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Citation of ANBD records
=> cross links between services
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Directory issues
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Re-badge ALG and ILRS as part of Libraries
Australia
Integrate existing directories => single sign-on
Distributed authorisation to Libraries Australia
using Shibboleth/MAMS
Conclusion
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Libraries Australia
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Better performance
Improved functionality
Continuing to innovate
Opening up Australian library collections
Please use it, link to it, promote it to your users!