Monthly Archives: August 2010

Statistics now available on the website

Ever wanted to know exactly which libraries add their holdings to the ANBD? Or how many items are requested & supplied through LADD? You can now find out by going to our recent statistics. These statistics include an overview of more…

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Libraries Australia staff at ALIA Access 2010

We look forward to seeing you at the National Library’s stand at ALIA Access 2010 in Brisbane this week. Rose Holley will be available at the stand on Thursday between 11.30am and 1.30pm if you would like to talk about more…

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State Library of NSW eRecords Project

The State Library of NSW eRecords Project has contributed over 140,000 new records to the ANBD since 2008, including 125,000 maps books and serials in the last financial year. These records were previously only searchable via card catalogues and indexes more…

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Improved importing of records containing non-Roman script

In LA Search, when you import a record containing non-Roman script (e.g. Thai or Devanagari) from WorldCat, the script will now display properly. Note: when importing records with non-Roman script you may need to edit the $7 script subfield in more…

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LADD – ‘Wildcard’ now in Own Services

When creating a new reciprocal arrangement in the Own Services screen, the value of ‘Wildcard’ now appears in the Service Level drop-down box. The value of ‘Wildcard’ is used to cover all 3 service levels (‘Core’, ‘Express’ and ‘Rush’). For more…

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50,000+ new records added by Murdoch University

Murdoch University is an established Record Import Service user that recently loaded its 877th file. This was a retrospective file containing 56,258 records that had not previously been added to the ANBD. We encourage all RIS users to consider whether more…

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New RIS member – Moreton Bay Regional Council Library

We are pleased to advise that Moreton Bay Regional Council Library has started contributing to the ANBD using the Record Import Service. Their 1st file of 60,466 bib records has added many unique holdings including holdings for locally published fiction more…

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LADD – ‘Received by Email or FTP’ now in Work Queue

‘Received by Email or FTP’ is now available in the Borrower (Requester) table in the Work Queue. This will display all requests which have been supplied by DocStore and which have not yet been actioned as Received. The status of more…

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2010 Forum – 50th registration received

Congratulations to Vania Gilbert from the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts Library, Canberra who was the 50th person to register for this year’s Forum, which will be held in Canberra on 20 October 2010. As the more…

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LADD – scheduled archiving of requests on Wednesday 25 August

On the evening of Wednesday 25 August 2010, LADD will be archiving all requests which have not been actioned prior to 1 July 2009. Please see the LADD archiving schedule for further details.

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