Author Archives: Mel Hunt

Unavailability of LA Search, RIS, RES and Products – 6 February

Colleagues The Libraries Australia Search Service, Libraries Australia Record Import Service, Libraries Australia Record Export Service and Products will be unavailable Wednesday, 6 February between 7:30pm – 12:00pm. This outage is required for maintenance on the Libraries Australia database. We more…

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ILRS Code Review

The Interlibrary Resource Sharing (ILRS) Code benefits Australian libraries and their users by providing greater predictability, consistency, and flexibility in obtaining materials. The ALIA Interlending Advisory Committee will be reviewing the principles and guidelines in the Interlibrary Resource Sharing (ILRS) more…

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Weekend suspension of RIS and RES services

We wish to advise that the Libraries Australia Record Import Service will be suspended between Friday 1 February 2013 and Monday 4 February. Records will be loaded as soon as possible next week. We would also like to advise that more…

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Update on RDA implementation in Libraries Australia

As the Australian implementation of Resource Description and Access (RDA) approaches, Libraries Australia will be implementing a number of changes. System changes We will be implementing a number of changes in the Cataloguing service including: Support for new MARC field more…

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December 2012 RAP and GovRAP files now available

December 2012 Recent Australian Publications (RAP) and Recent Australian Government Publications (GovRAP) are now available. Records from both services are a subset of the ANBD and are created by Australian libraries. There are Alphabetic and Dewey files available, in both more…

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Help Desk opening hours over Christmas/New Year

The Libraries Australia Help Desk will operate during the following hours over the Christmas and New Year period: Monday 24th December 9.00am – 12.30 (AEST) Tuesday 25th December Closed Wednesday 26th December Closed Thursday 27th December Closed Friday 28th December Closed Monday 31st December Closed more…

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Christmas/New Year suspensions in LADD

In order to relieve some of the workload on our ILL colleagues with ISO compliant systems we are going to continue the method for applying suspensions over this Christmas/New Year period that was trialled last year. If your library is more…

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Linked Authorities product now available

Libraries Australia is pleased to announce that a new Libraries Australia product, Linked Authorities, is now available. Over the past year Libraries Australia staff have worked closely with OCLC staff to implement the Libraries Australia Cataloguing (CBS) Relate program, which more…

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Enhancing and maintaining the quality of the Australian National Bibliographic Database

A brochure outlining the strategies and programs being implemented by Libraries Australia in a major effort to improve the quality of the ANBD was distributed at the 2012 Libraries Australia Forum. It is now available here. It also details the ways more…

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Libraries Australia Forum – presentations now available

Presentations from the recent Libraries Australia Forum are now available here http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/news-events/forum/2012-forum/2012-forum-program/ including the keynote speakers:  Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research; Judy Stokker, Director, Library Services, Queensland University of Technology and Bill Macnaught, National Librarian, National Library of more…

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