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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:
use of all of the ANBD data to meet copy cataloguing needs, and find all of that data in one place;
unlimited access to WorldCat - and other external databases - simultaneously, giving a high copy cataloguing hit rate;
inclusion of Blackwells TOC data, not easily available elsewhere, which enhances the member libraries’ catalogues;
assistance in making environmental transitions such as migration to new cataloguing standards (including Resource Description & Access);
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;
workflow advice through the Libraries Australia Help Desk, whenever it’s needed;
ability to offer local communities alerting services through the personalisation features of Libraries Australia Search;
real time synchronisation of catalogue data of member libraries to the global catalogue WorldCat, ensuring visibility of Australian collections to a global community;
engagement between libraries in both formal and informal spaces online and offline, to share advice on workflow issues;
influence over the future directions of the service through the Libraries Australia Advisory Committee.
Values
Libraries Australias' values are explained in two documents:
Value statement (PDF, 236 KB)
Supporting 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.
Page last updated: 23 October 2009

