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Reference and Libraries Australia Search

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

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Reference and Libraries Australia Search

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  1. Reference and Libraries Australia Search Karen Mackney and David Ong

  2. 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

  3. Libraries Australia Subscription Search and Libraries Australia Free Search

  4. SUBSCRIPTION vs FREE

  5. 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

  6. Most importantly of all These Libraries Australia Search Features are: • available at no extra cost • can be customised to suit your libraries requirements

  7. 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

  8. The average reader

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  12. The student at home

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  17. The researcher

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  24. 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.

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. Libraries Australia Search • What are we doing? • What can you do? • What have we done? • Where are we going?

  30. What are we doing? • Interface - end user search and traditional Library functions

  31. What are we doing? • Continuous refinement

  32. What can you do? • Deep Linking - bring the end user to your catalogue • Allow End Users to access Libraries Australia

  33. Deep Linking

  34. Deep Linking – Search Results

  35. Deep Linking – Get this item

  36. Deep Linking – Local record

  37. 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

  38. Deep Linking – Required Information • Persistent URL • Example searches: • ISBN • ISSN • Author/Title • Title • Inform the Libraries Australia Helpdesk

  39. 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

  40. End User Access to Libraries Australia Search • Subscription model – 2005 • End User/Personalised accounts • IP Authentication • Web Search – HTML box

  41. HTML Box

  42. What have we done? • Open Search Compliance • Relevance Ranking

  43. Open Search Compliance • What is Open Search? • Why implement this?

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