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Annual Users' Meeting

21-22 August 2003

Stamford Grand Adelaide
Glenelg
South Australia


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Kinetica Annual Users' Meeting
21-22 August 2003
Glenelg, South Australia


Summary

Opening and welcome

Bronwyn Halliday, Chair

Official opening

Hon. John Hill

  • Kinetica is the lynchpin for library and information resource sharing in Australia
  • Libraries are central to the creation of the clever country, contributing to lifelong education, civic debate
  • South Australian Government has strong commitment to supporting and furthering the role of libraries and other cultural institutions in enriching, advancing quality of life, including first stage of the new SA State Library building complex which re-opened in July ·
  • Australian libraries are continually forming mutually beneficial partnerships e.g. AskNow!, 2003@yourlibrary

Introduction and welcome

Jan Fullerton

  • IBM GSA support continues until Dec 2005
  • Decision on future of Kinetica after 2005 to be announced in next few months
  • Provision of rapid and easy access to information resources in all formats: digitisation program - approx 75,000 Australian collection items already digitised
  • Collaborative activities:
    • Picture Australia:
      • online access to 650,000 images from 27 organisations
    • Music Australia:
      • you will be able to view a piece of digitised sheet music from the National Library, while listening to a digitised sound recording of the work from ScreenSound Australia.
    • AustraliaDancing:
      • provides users with information about dance in Australia and access to digitised dance-related materials.
    • AskNow!:
      • interactive chat reference service

Using technology to advance the National Library's strategic directions

Warwick Cathro

Improving access to Ncollections:

  • restructure of the Library's web site
  • implementation of a new catalogue based on Voyager
  • digital services architecture developed and implemented by N
  • development of online web delivery systems for each type of material Collaboration with others:
  • Picture Australia
  • enhancement of RAAM (Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts)
  • Music Australia
  • investigation of FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records)
  • Harvester Project - Improvement of metadata harvesting in variety of formats (MARC, Dublin Core, specialised XML schemas etc.)
  • Directory services:
    development of NLA's web-based directories of libraries and related collections and services

Report from the Kinetica Advisory Committee

Craig Anderson

  • Authority survey
    • authority work being done, not on Kinetica
    • most headings created by few libraries
    • return to LASH needed
  • Pricing Working Group
    • Revised fee structure
    • Single discount
  • Elias/Libricore - Kinetica software now owned by new group
  • Interlending and resource discovery are high priorities
  • End user access is high priority

Kinetica Report

Roxanne Missingham

  • NBD creating efficiencies through increasing coverage:
    • over 36 million holdings
    • over 14 million bibliographic records
    • over 340,000 electronic resources
  • Significant work on quality of the NBD, including enhancement of Match/Merge program, removal of orphan heading·
  • Performance and capacity of Kinetica improved through a hardware upgrade
  • Document delivery - connectivity through ISO ILL protocol, addition of Chinese Japanese Korean database
  • Chinese Japanese Korean Service - new hardware, City of Sydney public library records loaded
  • New databases - Deutsche Bibliothek Database, OCLC WorldCat extended for 3 years
  • Extending access through innovative projects and partnerships:
    • Public Library Portal
    • Australian newspapers project
    • Commonwealth Government Metadata Pilot
    • Electronic resources
  • Enhancements - Expert Advisory Group

State User Group Report

Jay Douglas

  • Vital communication role
  • Enhancement workshops held in 2002
  • ILL/DD workshop held by VKUG DD
  • Issues - Kinetica planning and development - enhancements, budget, pricing
    • Database integrity - record quality, authority control, MARC 21 non- compliance
    • Document - KDD best practice, Public Library Portal, OCLC access, end user access, connectivity

Innovative uses of Kinetica

John Arfield, co judge with Sherry Quinn, noted that out of 6 entries, the winner, the State Library of Tasmania, showed the greatest amount of innovation in the use of Kinetica.

Carmel Denholm, State Library of Tasmania
Our Digital Island provides access to Tasmanian websites preserved for posterity. XML format metadata records are exported from ODI to Kinetica, where records are converted to MARC.

Showcase of South Australian libraries:

Public libraries / Helen Walkden

Network initiatives:

  • 2003@yourlibrary
  • Wide area network
  • Big book club
  • Libraries.sa web site

Library innovations including modern library buildings, mobile library satellite access

Special libraries / Georgia Livissianos

  • Special libraries think they don't necessarily need Kinetica
  • Many special libraries don't add holdings to Kinetica
  • Use informal networks/reciprocal loans for ILL much more than Kinetica because of simplicity, cost e.g. 400 ILL/year via reciprocal loans, 200 via own library network, 20 via Kinetica
  • Kinetica used for bib verification, copy cataloguing, non-SA held items etc.
  • Special libraries would be more efficient if they used Kinetica

University libraries / Robyn Walden, Patricia Scott, Jay Douglas

  • History of cooperation between the three University libraries including the joint purchase of the Voyager System
  • Future plans including the benchmarking of technical services operations, consortial monograph purchasing
  • Issue of "disappearing collections" from smaller libraries

End user access to Kinetica

A real end user speaks / Douglas Sellick

Specialist searching for end users / Michael O'Donoghue

Searching for end users / Anne Chittleborough

  • AustLit (Australian Literature Gateway) - Using the FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) system:
    • the work (an abstract concept)
    • the version (how the work is realised)
    • the publication (how the version is realised)
  • AustLit subsets include Australian drama, multicultural writers, children's literature, WA literature, SA women writers, Australian literary responses to Asia, ATSI writers, SETIS

ILL service delivery implications when end users have access to Kinetica / Christine Cother

  • ILL/DD historically seen as library to library activity
  • New opportunities available through Web-based catalogues and databases via Internet for unmediated requests ·
  • Universal Borrowing (UB) trial available to staff and post-grads of UniSA and Adelaide
  • Implications for Kinetica - Kinetica needs to be readily available, promoted, search mechanism improved, needs a nationally co-ordinated end user DD and lending service

Report from Thursday's parallel sessions

  • E-resources and government publications
    Closure of government bookshops
    Changes to government publication distribution
    Creation of a Commonwealth Publications Register
    Legal Deposit Scheme
    NLA/NOIE discussions (Commonwealth Metadata Pilot Project)
  • Enhancements, resources and authorities
    Cataloguing client - multi-record capable, authority and bib records, AACR/DDC/other tools, interactive checking, support for multi-record sources/standards, heading verification, automatic updating, improved interaction with vendors Authorities - financial incentives, unique ID, display of code and description, RMR Resource discovery - improved limiting facilities, ordering of results, ability to sort results, auto search
  • KDD

Report from Kinetica CJK Annual Users' Meeting

Nancy Li

  • Highlights
    • City of Sydney Library upload (12,600 records)
    • CJK DB migration to Solaris 8 server
    • CJK DB a KDD target
    • CJK Union Catalogue project
  • Future of CJK and Kinetica
    • Preparation for integration with NBD
    • Marketing and Promotion
    • EACC to Unicode
  • CJK script in authority records