Maintenance on the Libraries Australia Cataloguing service will require us to suspend some services on Saturday, 3 November. This maintenance is required because we are making changes to storage. The disruption will affect cataloguing, RIS, RES and Products. We apologise more…
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Libraries Australia maintenance on Saturday, 3 November 2012
New standard for Minimum Record on Libraries Australia
We will be replacing the Libraries Australia Minimum Record Standard with a new standard. The new standard has a new name: Required Data Elements. At the moment it is a provisional standard only. The new standard, Required Data Elements, is more…
New version of Libraries Australia cataloguing
On Monday 15 October Libraries Australia will be releasing a new version of the Libraries Australia cataloguing system. This upgrade will require downtime of Libraries Australia cataloguing via the WinIBW cataloguing client and WebCat. The cataloguing system will be unavailable more…
Libraries Australia Help Desk closed Monday 1st October
Dear Colleagues, The Libraries Australia Help Desk will be closed on Monday 1st October 2012 for the Labour Day public holiday. You will still be able to enter your queries via our online form, however they will not be attended more…
042 $a anuc code in records for Australian material
We have recently been doing some targeted data maintenance work for Australian material that is lacking the 042 $a anuc code – the Australian content indicator. Unfortunately we’ve discovered quite a few bibliographic records for Australian publications that don’t have more…
Update on RDA changes in Libraries Australia Cataloguing and Search databases
This is the first of a series of updates that we will be sending you to tell you about the progress we are making in supporting the cataloguing, matching and merging, and also retrieval of RDA records in the Libraries more…
Libraries Australia Forum – Canberra 25 October 2012
The 2012 Libraries Australia Forum will be held at the National Library of Australia on Thursday 25 October 2012. The theme of this year’s Forum is ‘Exposing Hidden Collections’. The forum program includes the following keynote speakers: Merrilee Proffitt, Senior more…
August RAP and GOVRAP files now available
August Recent Australian Publications (RAP) and Recent Australian Government Publications (GovRAP) files are now available. Files are available sorted either alphabetically or by dewey classification. They also come in two formats, for viewing within the website (HTML) or in a more…
Searching for 13 digit ISBNs in 10 digit form
In Libraries Australia Search 10-digit ISBNs are automatically indexed, and are searchable, as the corresponding 13-digit number. However 13 digit ISBNs are not indexed as 10 digit numbers unless both numbers appear in the bibliographic record. If you have a more…
Relate linking software
Libraries Australia staff and staff at OCLC Leiden have been working for many months to configure and test the Libraries Australia Cataloguing (CBS) Relate software. The software matches headings in bibliographic records with the corresponding authority record. When a matching authority more…
