A Day with the National Library of Australia

15 February 2000
Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne

Senior staff of the National Library of Australia were in Melbourne on 15 February 2000, to discuss and demonstrate some of the National Library’s current and future activities.

In the morning, members of the National Library senior executive group discussed the National Library of Australia's strategic directions and role in the national information infrastructure, covering current activities and services and future projects and initiatives. The afternoon was devoted to Kinetica, focussing on developments and initiatives.

Morning sessions


Welcome, strategic directions and overview of the NLA
Jan Fullerton, Director-General

NLA’s role in the national information infrastructure
David Toll, Deputy Director-General

Digital Services Project
Warwick Cathro, Assistant Director-General, Information Technology

PANDORA
Jasmine Cameron, Manager PANDORA Project

Preservation overview
Colin Webb, Director Preservation Services Branch

Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts
Oral History directory

Margy Burn, Assistant Director-General, Australian Collections and Services

Reference Service Developments
Roxanne Missingham, Director Reader Services

Afternoon sessions


Kinetica progress report
Andrew Wells, Assistant Director-General, Resource Sharing

KineticaWeb
Bryony De La Motte, Kinetica Customer Service

Kinetica Document Delivery
Bronwyn Lee, Kinetica Documentation Delivery Implementation

Cataloguing with Kinetica : the future
Julia Trainor, Kinetica Database Services

Cataloguing with Kinetica
Rob Walls, Kinetica Product Development

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