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…
Category Archives: Cataloguing service
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…
How is Libraries Australia planning to implement RDA?
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…
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…
