Strategic Directions

Mission

The key mission of Libraries Australia is to support the workflows of Australian libraries. It is a national not-for-profit collaboration which provides workflow services in exchange for a cost-recovery subscription fee.

The benefits to member libraries are:

Libraries Australia iconuse of all of the ANBD data to meet copy cataloguing needs, and find all of that data in one place;
Libraries Australia icon unlimited access to WorldCat - and other external databases - simultaneously, giving a high copy cataloguing hit rate;
Libraries Australia icon inclusion of Blackwells TOC data, not easily available elsewhere, which enhances the member libraries’ catalogues;
Libraries Australia icon assistance in making environmental transitions such as migration to new cataloguing standards (including Resource Description & Access);
Libraries Australia icon full use of the national interlibrary loan system (LADD) – or, utilise a fully tested interconnection between their local ILL system and LADD – and the associated payments service;
Libraries Australia icon workflow advice through the Libraries Australia Help Desk, whenever it’s needed;
Libraries Australia icon ability to offer local communities alerting services through the personalisation features of Libraries Australia Search;
Libraries Australia icon real time synchronisation of catalogue data of member libraries to the global catalogue WorldCat, ensuring visibility of Australian collections to a global community;
Libraries Australia icon engagement between libraries in both formal and informal spaces online and offline, to share advice on workflow issues;
Libraries Australia icon influence over the future directions of the service through the Libraries Australia Advisory Committee.

Values

Libraries Australias' values are explained in two documents:

Libraries Australia iconValue statement (PDF, 236 KB)
Libraries Australia iconSupporting Australian Libraries (PDF, 68 KB)

Strategic Plan

This document sets out the plans for the development and ongoing delivery of our services between July 2009 and June 2011.

Libraries Australia iconStrategic Plan 2009-2011 (PDF, 333 KB)


Page last updated: 23 October 2009