The National Library of Australia, along with the Library of Congress, British Library, Library & Archives Canada, U.S. National Agricultural Library, and U.S. National Library of Medicine have agreed to implement RDA in the first quarter of 2013. During the more…
Category Archives: Cataloguing service
How is Libraries Australia planning to implement RDA?
Brief records from YBP with Table of Contents (TOC) notes
We recently entered into a 3 year agreement with YBP for the supply of table of contents data to enrich Libraries Australia records. This follows the cessation of the former Blackwell service, which was taken over by YBP’s parent company, more…
Updating bibliographic records in Libraries Australia & WorldCat
Earlier in the year the NSW Libraries Australia Cataloguing Special Interest Group (NSW CATSIG) asked the following questions: What will LA do to ensure that bibliographic upgrades made on LA are sent to OCLC? When does LA send new records more…
Search now available
Libraries Australia Search is once again available after this morning’s outage. You are welcome to add/modify/delete holdings and records again. If you experience any further problems please contact the Libraries Australia Help Desk.
Search unavailable Monday Morning
Further to our message Friday morning regarding suspension of updates to Libraries Australia Search from 6 pm AEST time Friday 23 September. We would like to advise that Libraries Australia Search will be unavailable Monday morning until approximately 10.30 am. more…
Enhancement to Libraries Australia Search this weekend
Libraries Australia Search will undergo an enhancement from 6pm AEST this Friday 23rd September to Sunday 25th September. As a result, updating of all records will be suspended over this period. This includes updates via the web interface, the Cataloguing Client and the Record Import more…
Brief outage tonight
The National Library of Australia will have an Internet Outage at 5:30pm AEST tonight (Friday 02/09/11). This outage is part of necessary maintenance to the Library’s network. The outage is expected to be less than half an hour. During this more…
Update of Manuals now complete
To go with the launch of the new website we have been systematically reviewing the content in all of our Cataloguing Client, Document Delivery and Search manuals. This is now complete with all manuals up to date and available in more…
Upcoming training in rural NSW
Training courses will be held in Lismore for the Cataloguing Client and Document Delivery Basics at the end of August. If you’re in northern NSW or southern Queensland and have been thinking about undertaking Libraries Australia training, now is your chance. more…
Emily Rodda works enrich the ANBD
Libraries Australia has been enriched by the addition of a large collection of works by Emily Rodda translated into 30 languages and held at the Lu Rees Archive of Australian Children’s Literature at the University of Canberra.
