2007 News Archive


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19/11/07 - Upgrade to Libraries Australia Cataloguing version 3.2

The upgrade of the Libraries Australia Cataloguing service has been successful.

New functionality made available with this upgrade includes:

For further information please see the release notes: http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/LAReleasenotes.html


16/11/07 - Strategic Plans

The new Libraries Australia Strategic Plan for 2007-2010 is now available.

A companion document, the 2007 Value Statement, and its summary version Supporting Australian libraries,
examines the value of the Libraries Australia services and possible new directions.

http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/laacpapers.html


14/11/07 - Recent Australian Government Publications

GovRAP is a free monthly reference service listing Australia's recent government publishing output is of interest to all engaged in research and the provision of information. The alphabetical file is a complete list of new records for items published by Australian Government Departments that have been added to the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD) in the nominated month; the Dewey classified file is a subset of those records that contain Dewey numbers.

You can download the records free of charge. Re-use of these records by re-publication is not permitted.

http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/govrap.html


12/09/07 - Libraries Australia Forum 2007 audio and powerpoint presentations

MP3 audio files are now available for the 2007 Libraries Australia Forum. The audio files are available in high and low quality. High quality files are significantly larger in size and will take longer to download.

The PowerPoint presentations used at the 2007 Libraries Australia Forum are also now available on the agenda page:

http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/aum/laf07/agenda.html


20/08/07 - Libraries Australia Administration Manual

The Libraries Australia Administration Manual is now available. You can now download the Libraries Australia Administration Manual from the Manuals section on the Libraries Australia website.

Detailed information on the Record Export Service (RES), Record Import Service (RIS) and Products are also covered in this manual.


08/08/07 - New version of Libraries Australia

A new version of Libraries Australia was released today.

Information on the changes and enhancements made to functionality can be found here:-
http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/LAReleasenotes.html


01/06/07 - Libraries Australia Forum video presentations

Quicktime video files are now available for the 2006 Libraries Australia Forum. The videos cover the 25 year birthday celebration of the ANBD before the main forum, the introduction and opening of the forum, Tony Boston's report and strategic directions presentation, Warwick Cathro's presentation on the future of the catalogue and Kent Fitch's new paradigm on "getting".

The videos are available on the LAF 2006 Agenda webpage here-
http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/aum/laf06/agenda.html


11/05/07 - NLA-OCLC agreement

The Director General of the National Library of Australia, Jan Fullerton, and the President of OCLC (the Online Computer Library Center), Jay Jordan, today signed a collaborative services agreement opening up access to two significant catalogues.

From 1 July 2007, all Australian libraries who subscribe to Libraries Australia will have unlimited cataloguing and search access to WorldCat, which makes available records from 110 countries via http://worldcat.org.

The agreement ensures that bibliographic records between the two services will be exchanged on a regular basis, and as a consequence, holdings in Australian library collections will be available internationally through OCLC's Open WorldCat service.

For more information, see: http://www.nla.gov.au/pressrel/media-release-110507.html and http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/FAQarchive.html#oclc.