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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
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
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 email 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 Helphttp://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/contactus.html
- Help Desk online form: Online enquiry form
- By telephone: 1800 026 155
- Keep up to date with enhancements by
- Joining an email 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
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SAB1=0732200725&BOOL1=all+of+these&FLD1=ISBN%20(ISBN)&DB=local&CNT=25http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SAB1=0732200725&BOOL1=all+of+these&FLD1=ISBN%20(ISBN)&DB=local&CNT=25
Deep Linking – Required Information
- Persistent URL
- Example searches:
- ISBN
- ISSN
- Author/Title
- Title
- Inform the Libraries Australia Helpdesk
Deep linking example searches:
- http://www.librarycatalogue.act.gov.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=11887J9N6E765.8724&menu=search&aspect=basic_search&npp=10&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=vl&ri=&index=.AW&term=smith&x=0&y=0&aspect=basic_search
- http://www.librarycatalogue.act.gov.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=11887J9N6E765.8724&menu=search&aspect=basic_search&npp=10&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=vl&ri=&index=.AW&term=jones&x=0&y=0&aspect=basic_search
End User Access to Libraries Australia Search
- Subscription model – 2005
- End User/Personalised accounts
- IP Authentication
- Web Search – HTML box
What have we done?
- Open Search Compliance
- Relevance Ranking
Open Search Compliance
- What is Open Search?
- Why implement this?
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 kmackney@nla.gov.au
David Ong dong@nla.gov.au
