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Reference and Libraries Australia Search

Karen Mackney and David Ong

• 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

• 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

These Libraries Australia Search Features are:

• available at no extra cost
• can be customised to suit your libraries requirements

Three scenarios

• The typical library user wants the latest by their favourite fiction author
• The student at home
• A researcher reviewing a topic

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• What are we doing?
• What can you do?
• What have we done?
• Where are we going?

• Interface - end user search and traditional Library functions

• Continuous refinement

• Deep Linking - bring the end user to your catalogue
• Allow End Users to access Libraries Australia

• Persistent URL
• Example searches:
• ISBN
• ISSN
• Author/Title
• Title
• Inform the Libraries Australia Helpdesk

• 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

• Subscription model – 2005
• End User/Personalised accounts
• IP Authentication
• Web Search – HTML box

• Open Search Compliance
• Relevance Ranking

• What is Open Search?
• Why implement this?

• More relevant results first
• Exact phrase or keyword
• By or About
• Number of Holdings
• Etc

• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Library Labs Prototype

• 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