ISSN 1039-348X
No. 81
May/June 1995
The impact of NDIS in an open document supply
environment
ABN/Ozline Annual Users
Meeting
The Ozline Showcase
Ozline-the network which offers bibliographic material across
several major disciplines
Reduced charges for
Ozline
ABN still the one for cataloguing
Early imprints on the NBD
Network
Committee election
Brisbane City Council
Library
Meet the marketing team
Daily news highlights
National
Bibliographic Database statistics
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Extract from a presentation to the National Interlending and Document Supply Summit (18-19 May, 1995) by Warwick Cathro
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Warwick Cathro with recently-appointed Director of
Interlending Services, Charu Sood
In the latter half of the 1990s, users will be able to identify and receive documents direct to the work station on their desks, or to a convenient fax machine, with little delay and at a reasonable cost. Achieving this will depend on careful design of the various components of the document supply infrastructure, and a commitment to implement the standards that will create effective links between the components.
Some of these components include:
All of these functional components should be capable of operating in an open, Internet-compatible environment. To achieve this, all parties must agree on the relevant standards and undertake to support them.
The National Document and Information Service Project (NDIS) is developing a service that will support the components listed above, and will cooperate with other systems-including bibliographic databases, document request systems and document supply systems-that are used in Australia to facilitate access to documents.
When a user has searched a database (such as Dialog or Ozline) and found a useful citation, it is no longer acceptable that they then have to search a different database to find the bibliographic and holdings information. Database services of the future must be designed to link citations to bibliographic records.
The design of NDIS will take account of this requirement, both for the Ozline databases and for the additional overseas databases which NDIS will ultimately host. Every citation stored on NDIS will be linked precisely to the corresponding serial record (or conference proceeding record) and, through those records, to the holdings. This link will be facilitated through the ISSN, where it exists, but otherwise through other control numbers.
The National Library will also be encouraging the use by Ozline data providers of the Serial Item Contribution Identifier (SICI) to identify each journal article uniquely. The SICI is an American standard, but work will be undertaken to reconcile it with the corresponding international standard. Organisations that are currently working on the SICI include Faxon, John Wiley, Blackwells, Silver Platter, UnCover and the US Copyright Clearance Centre. The SICI has the potential to be very useful in identifying a journal article throughout the document supply cycle.
More information on the SICI may be found on the following Web page:
http://www.faxon.com/Standards/Z3956-SICI-Intro.html
When the link has been made from an article citation to an item description, the next requirement is for a locating or directory mechanism which points from the item description to the actual document resources, be they printed, multimedia or electronic.
Currently there are several ways of discovering the location of printed and electronic documents, including library catalogues, union catalogue databases, individual commercial document supplier databases and Internet indexing systems.
NDIS will incorporate features that exploit all of the above approaches in one easy to use service. It will incorporate a massive national union catalogue database. It will also act as a Z39.50 client, so that it can improve searching of local catalogues, to retrieve item status information following a search of the union catalogue. The NDIS service will also provide easy gateway access to at least one commercial document supply service. In addition, NDIS will take account of recent standards work on Uniform Resource Names (URN) and Uniform Resource Characteristics (URC) in its data design, thereby allowing it to point reliably to less formal document resources on the Internet.
More information on URNs and URCs may be found on the following Web page:
http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/html.charters/urn-charter.html
What happens next depends on the format of the document. If the document is available in electronic form external to the user's system, and is wanted by the user as an electronic document, it could be requested directly by the user, once the network address (eg the URL or URN) is known. However, there appears little prospect of fully automating this process in the near future.
It is worth noting here that NDIS will, for some categories of Australian documents, bypass this problem by hosting document text or document image on the NDIS system itself. For example, images of articles indexed by APAIS, and the texts of some Australian electronic journals will be hosted on NDIS. Users will be able to obtain these documents as a direct by-product of the searching process.
If the document is available only as a printed document, the user will have to issue a request for the document. This request may be controlled by a system such as the ABN Interlibrary Loan Subsystem, or ILANET, or the future NDIS document request subsystem. Whatever the system, it must, in the future, be able to incorporate automatically the document citation details and the location details from the previous steps, as well as information about the user which is known to the system. Furthermore, this system needs to be able to interact with whatever document request system is used by the document provider. This is where the International Interlibrary Loan Protocol (ISO 10160/10161) comes in.
Unlike Z39.50, the ILL Protocol has not been a runaway success in the interconnection of library systems since its development by the National Library of Canada in the mid 1980s. However, it is starting to make an impact in Europe, and there are signs that it is beginning to gain a wider acceptance.
The NDIS design strategy calls for the development of an interlibrary loan subsystem which will be modelled on the ILL Protocol and will thus allow document requests to be generated directly on the NDIS system, or uploaded to NDIS from local systems. The protocol will also allow document requests to be transferred out of NDIS into other systems, such as the BL DSC, where these systems have implemented the protocol. The ILL Protocol is the agreed mechanism for linking the interlibrary loan management systems of NDIS and ILANET.
Once the target system has received a document request it can respond with a suitable message (again using the ILL Protocol) and can also, hopefully, transmit the document.
There are three principal mechanisms for transmitting documents to the end user: by post, by fax and by transmitting an electronic file to the user's computer. Fax will probably continue as the most popular document transmission mechanism for many years. The use of post, however, will undoubtedly decline because of its inferior timeliness and decreasing cost advantage.
A steady increase can be expected in the demand for electronic transmission of documents to the user's computer. This will permit processing of the document, and it will also allow the document request data to be transmitted back to the requestor, in association with the document itself. This is another area where potentially useful standards have been developed. The Group on Electronic Document Interchange (GEDI), largely based in Europe, has developed standards for the header information to accompany transmitted document images. (The GEDI headers are used in the Ariel software.) Furthermore, this header information can be extracted from the interlibrary loan management system and attached to the document file. The Dutch network, PICA, has developed software to control this process for any interlibrary loan management system that conforms to the ILL Protocol.
The question of how the document image file is to be transmitted is a subject being addressed by the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee (AVCC) Project. The AVCC has been allocated a special grant from the National Priority (Reserve) Fund for the period 1994-96 for the development of library infrastructure in Australia.
The NDIS Project has deliberately excluded any software development in this area, in order to support the AVCC Project fully. To quote from an announcement made by the Library and the AVCC Project in February 1995:
'The National Library and the AVCC III Program have agreed on the following principles:
The copyright owner or the owner's agent also has a stake in the document supply process. The owner or agent would like to receive reports on document supply transactions. These reports should contain a unique identifier for the document, and information pertaining to the supply transaction.
The need for a unique document identifier again points back to the SICI. Some copyright clearance centres, including CAL in Australia, are aware of the SICI and are considering its possible use in their own systems.
However, the issues involved in delivering reports to copyright owners or their agents have not been fully defined. There is a need for a protocol to describe and define the process of transmitting information about document usage. For such a protocol to be developed there is a need for libraries, publishers and copyright agencies to recognise that they are part of the one system, and to work together to develop the mechanisms for effective exchange of information.
The document supply process is a highly complex one, involving many stakeholders and an intricate chain of events leading from the original search to the report of the successful transaction. It is also a process that is undergoing rapid change, due to the impact of document imaging technology, the Internet explosion, and the globalisation of the market, among many factors. Standards play an important role in sustaining and improving the efficiency of this process. At every step, data from the previous step needs to be processed and transmitted without re-keying.
NDIS is a major document delivery support service under development. It is attempting to respond to these changes and to reflect the key standards in its own infrastructure. The NDIS service will be part of an open document supply network and the National Library is anxious to cooperate with other parties in Australia, and overseas, to assist in developing, implementing and promoting the standards needed to make this network an excellent one.
People attending this year's Annual Users Meeting will hear a number of interesting reports and be able to take part in discussions on several issues. Items for discussion, nominated, as usual, by ABN/Ozline users, have been amalgamated into an interesting agenda by Chairperson, Helen Livingstone.
On the first day, the NDIS project will be a major topic occupying the entire afternoon session. NDIS will probably also be raised during other discussions. The NDIS item will start with a report on progress to date and plans for the immediate future. Detailed aspects of NDIS already nominated for discussion include technical architecture and workstations, governance and standards issues, holdings information and authority control. Speakers in this segment of the meeting will include Jan Rosi, the Joint Project director and Tim Shirley from CSC Australia, who will present the technical architecture item.
A document delivery and interlibrary lending item will start proceedings on the second day of the meeting. This will cover both the present system, and issues for the future. Helen Livingstone will present a report on the National Document Delivery Summit held by ACLIS in May. A report on the CJK project will follow, and standards issues relevant to the CJK system will be discussed. Another traditional item, questions on notice, will occupy the early afternoon session, with time also allocated to questions without notice.
Outside the formal business of the meeting, we expect to present an Ozline showcase, where Ozline database providers will have the opportunity to talk to users about their products. Database providers will present their showcase during the lunch breaks on both days.
The first day of the meeting will conclude with a cocktail reception from 6.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Meeting delegates will have this opportunity to continue discussions with National Library staff or to renew old friendships and start new ones with fellow ABN/Ozline users.
Delegates at the 1995 ABN/Ozline Annual Users Meeting will have the opportunity to visit a special Ozline promotion. The Ozline Showcase will offer delegates the opportunity to explore Ozline databases through SOFI or STAIRS using one of three free demonstration terminals. Ozline staff will be on hand to assist and delegates will also have the opportunity to meet Ozline database producers while browsing through a range of information about the databases.
The Showcase will be held in the You Yangs 4 Room at the World Congress Centre, right next to the main meeting room. It will be open during all meeting breaks from lunch on 18 July to after lunch on 19 July, including the cocktail reception.
If you are attending the Annual Users Meeting please don't forget to visit the Ozline Showcase.
Just 18 months ago Ozline was considered to be a network which was still in its infancy, offering only 14 databases restricted to the Humanities and Social Sciences. Since then it has expanded its horizons to include one medical database and no less than 17 databases covering various aspects of the sciences.
For those who are interested, here is a breakdown of all the databases on offer.
FREE - Practice database which is free of charge
AGPP -
Australian Government Publications
ANBB - Australian National
Bibliography
APAIS - Australian Public Affairs Information Service
AUSP - Australian Sport Index
FAMI - Australian Family and Society
Abstracts
FAMT - Family Full Text Database
ARCH - Australian
Architecture Database
IREL - Australian Industrial Relations Database
MAIS - Multicultural Australian and Immigration Studies
AGIS - Attorney General's Information Service
AFPD - Police
Database
CINCH - Australian Criminology Database
DRUG - Drug Database
HEAPS - Health Education and Promotion System
AMI - Australasian Medical Index
ABOA - Australian Bibliography of Agriculture
AVID - Agriculture
Victoria - Library Catalogue
RRIP - Australian Rural Research in
Progress
REEF - Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Province
WATR -
STREAMLINE: Australia's Natural Resources Database
AHRR - Australian Historic Records Register
FILM - CSIRO Films
HERA - Heritage Australia Information System
NICAN - National directory of
organisations providing services to the disabled
RASA - Register of
Archives of Science in Australia
CONF (CONC) - Australian Conferences Database
CSIX - CSIRO
Index
ENGN - ENGINE: Australian Engineering Database
ERIP - Australian
Energy in Progress
ROAD - produced by the Australian Road Research Board
Limited
Science and Geography Education
SATL - Inventory of Satellite
Data Acquisition in Australia
SCANfile: science policy and management
TRAN - Translations Database
USEN - US Energy Research in Progress
Now that you know what databases are available, the next step is to discover what type of information is covered by each. An A4 promotional booklet entitled OZLINE: Australian Information Online is available free of charge from our Help Desk. Not only does it cover information on how to join this network as well as costs and charges, but it also includes a description of each database and the subject matter covered.
If you have access to World Wide Web, this information is also available from the National Library's WWW Home Page at the following URL address: www.nla.gov.au/2/ozline/ozlbro.html
Before you even contemplate doing a search, you should consult the fact sheet of the database you are interested in. There you will find the names of the formatted fields and paragraphs pertinent to the database you are interested in. This information will help you interpret the two-letter paragraph mnemonics which appear opposite each paragraph when browsing your search results. Each fact sheet also shows an example of a typical record plus some search tips when deemed necessary.
A set of fact sheets costs $5.00 and is available from the Training and Documentation Section. (Please see section on ordering documentation below for further details.) The fact sheets are also available in full from the National Library's WWW Home Page at the following URL address: http://www.nla.gov.au/2/ozline/ozbro.html#databases.
For those who are relatively new to database searching, or only wish to search Ozline intermittently, we advise you to use SOFI, our user-friendly interface. No knowledge of searching is required when using SOFI, as user prompts occur on each screen which will take you through your search one step at a time. If you would like to become acquainted with SOFI before embarking on your first search, you are able to do so free of charge by selecting the FREE database. The latter contains a small subset of the APAIS database to practise on. FREE is also available to those users who choose to search Ozline directly using STAIRS commands.
While the main search engine for Ozline is STAIRS software, this software was unfortunately unsuitable for our medical database AMI which is run on Elhill software. This service is primarily aimed at health professionals and requires knowledge of Elhill commands. As AMI runs on a completely different system to that of the other Ozline databases, a special userid and password are required. Both are available on request from the ABN/Ozline Help Desk.
There are two publications which should help those who would like to search this database, but are unfamiliar with Elhill commands. The first is Teach Yourself AMI Part 1 without Using Printed MeSH, which is a step-by-step guide to searching AMI, and costs $30.00. The second is AMI / Medline: Quick Reference Guidewhich is a 22-page publication listing all the Elhill commands. The latter publication is useful for those who are already familiar with the commands, and costs $10.00. Both publications are available from the Training and Documentation Section (ordering details follow).
All documentation mentioned above is available on request from:
Ruby Dutta,
Training and Documentation Section
National
Library
Parkes, CANBERRA ACT 2601
Tel. (02) 6262 1239
Fax (02) 6273
1180
Ruby Dutta
(Please include your customer number when ordering)
For further information or help with searches, please contact the ABN/Ozline Help Desk on:
Toll free: 1800 02 6155
Tel. (02) 6262 1531
Fax. (02) 6273
1180
e-mail networks@nla.gov.au
From 1 July the following reduced charges will
apply to Ozline:
All databases (except FAMT) = $1.00 per minute ($0.50 less)
FAMT = $3.50 per minute (stays the same)
20 hrs connect time over 12 months = $900 ($300 less)
40 hrs connect time over 12 months = $1600 ($200 less)
Please refer to the 1995-96 Charging Schedule for details.
Over the past 12 years ABN has grown to be Australia's largest supplier of catalogue records. Around 700 libraries now receive copy catalogue records from ABN. Of these, 250 also contribute original cataloguing to the National Bibliographic Database (NBD). ABN provides a range of catalogue products to meet most libraries needs. MARC records can be delivered on magnetic tape, on diskettes, or instantly into your system using downline loading software. And we still have microfiche catalogues and catalogue cards.
Each year ABN supplies Australian libraries with over seven million MARC records. The sheer volume of records supplied means that ABN is able the keep the unit cost low. ABN's charges compare favourably with other sources of catalogue data. The average cost per copy catalogue record supplied varies between $0.20 and $1.50 depending on the number of records supplied, and whether the library contributes original cataloguing to the NBD. This estimate includes all inquiry, communication, service and MARC record charges. ABN pays a $7.00 credit for each original record contributed, $3.50 for close copy records, and $0.48 for every holding loaded to the NBD. These credits help reduce the average cost per record supplied and make ABN an even more attractive source of cataloguing data.
The NBD contains over 11 million bibliographic records, including over one million records contributed by ABN participants. Other NBD sources include the Library of Congress, U.S. National Library of Medicine, British Library, and the national libraries of Canada, Singapore and New Zealand. Such a large and comprehensive database means that most libraries have a hit rate on ABN of at least 70 per cent.
With low costs and a high hit rate it's no wonder that ABN is Australia's favourite source of copy cataloguing. For more information about cataloguing with ABN please contact the Help Desk on 1 800 026 155, fax (02) 6273 1180 or email networks@nla.gov.au
The National Bibliographic Database is becoming progressively more valuable for locating early imprints held in Australian libraries. Between 1978 and 1986 the Australian and New Zealand Early Imprints Project created the first comprehensive listing of pre-1801 imprints in Australian libraries. This data, which was compiled on catalogue cards, is being transferred to the NBD State by State.
South Australia was the first cab off the rank with their contribution of 9 700 records and 11 000 holdings to the NBD in 1993. The conversion and loading of the records was funded by the National Library.
New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT followed with 71 000 records being manually keyed in to ABN between 1992 and 1994. This project was undertaken by the Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies at Monash University, with funding from the Australian Research Council. The National Library supported the project by funding all the online costs of using ABN for the massive keying exercise. To save time in online keying, all the holdings for the ACT, NSW and Victoria were input to a special NBD signon, using the libraries' National Union Catalogue (NUC) symbols to distinguish their holdings.
Since the online keying was completed, Angela Brown from the NBD section has been unravelling the knots in this holdings tangle. Using the Global Holdings Change facility, Angela has almost completed the task of transferring relevant holdings to the ABN signon of each library, with twenty-one holdings transfers now completed.
Fortunately, most libraries are members of ABN in their own right, and have an ABN signon to which their holdings have been attached. In the case of very small libraries, National Library staff have helped to arrange partnerships between libraries, whereby an ABN member library 'hosts' the holdings of a very small library. For example, the State Library of South Australia has hosted the holdings of several small and private libraries on ABN, and provides a referral service to people wishing to access the collections.
The next stage in the project is to get the holdings for Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia onto the NBD. Each State has its file in a different format, and over the last few months the National Library has developed and costed a separate strategy for transferring the holdings of each one on to the NBD. The next step will be to locate a source of funding for this last stage of the project. Meanwhile, it is worth remembering that the NBD is the best place to locate early imprints held in Australian libraries.
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Maria Cabrera
Maria Cabrera from Marrickville Library in New South Wales was elected to one of the three vacancies on the Network Committee at the March/April meeting. Two other retiring members, Tom Cochrane (QUT) and Geoff Payne (Caval Ltd) were re-elected following a recent change, subsequently approved by the Director-General of the National Library, to the constitution of the committee. This allows retiring members to stand for re-election irrespective of the number of consecutive terms they have already served.
The ballot was characterised by a relatively small number of votes cast; only 100 of the 252 Full Service users eligible to vote (or 40%) did so. This poor response was in contrast to the interest shown by the candidates. In all, eight candidates (three from one State and one from each of the other five States), stood in the election.
The candidates and the votes they each received are set out in the table below. It will be seen that Geoff Payne was elected on his primary votes. On the fourth count in the proportional representation voting system, once three candidates had been eliminated, a further two, with the least number of votes among the remaining four candidates, were eliminated. The last two to be knocked out tallied the same number of votes and an inspection of the preferences of the candidate with the lesser number of primary votes (Ray Choate) revealed that these would not influence the order of candidates. Accordingly, Maria Cabrera and Tom Cochrane were declared elected.
Tony Ralli (ADFA), who has served on the Committee since January 1991, did not stand for re-election.
The Brisbane City Council Library Service comprises 32 networked libraries, serving Brisbane and its greater surrounds. Brisbane City Council Library Service is a recent ABN Full Service member, with over one million resource items in its collection.
Early libraries were operated by Schools of Art from 1851, when a Reading Room was established in Queen Street, until the Brisbane City Council took responsibility for them in the 1950s.
In the 1950s, each municipal library was managed by a librarian. During the 1960s, Council centralised the selection, purchasing and cataloguing of books for these libraries.
The appointment of a City Librarian in 1986 meant improved handling of multiple orders and copies as well as larger discounts. These resulted in more efficient spending of budgets and a wider range of titles for the Library Service. In 1993 the Library Service became responsible to a Director, Library Services, reporting to the Manager, Department of Recreation and Health.
Today Brisbane City Council Library Service consists of 32 branch libraries spread across Brisbane City, a corporate library, a mobile library and home library services. There are currently 286 000 registered borrowers who use five million items a year.
The Library Service is currently implementing a Dynix Automated Library System. Automation of the 32 libraries is being phased in over three years at a cost of $4 000 000. By the end of the financial year 1995-96 all of the branch libraries will be networked.
The system is planned to support 500 terminals for public and staff use. The system features not only traditional library modules such as circulation, OPAC, acquisition and cataloguing, but includes community resources, and electronic dictionary, media dictionary and home dial options.
As a result of the automation, inter-branch lending has increased, as the resources of the whole network become apparent to the clients.
The Brisbane City Council Library Service serves a population of approximately 750 000 inhabitants. To help with collection development across the 32 branch libraries, the Library Service consulted Australian Bureau of Statistics census figures. This in-depth analysis of population trends, showed five major languages being spoken other than English.
This community profiling led to branch libraries in certain areas developing collections reflecting the immediate geographic area.
Some of the branch libraries have built up collections of material relating to the history of individual suburbs and geographical areas of Brisbane, organisations and individuals, and the Brisbane City Council Library Service. The corporate library has a local government collection, and the Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens Library specialises in horticulture, gardening, landscape architecture and astronomy resources.
The Brisbane Central City Library is the largest library in the network. It has recently networked eight CD-ROMs for its clients. Titles of the networked CD-ROMs are SAGE, AUSTROM, Heritage and Environment, AUSTGUIDE, World of Poetry, Victorian Pioneer Index, and Serials in Australian Libraries. Other CD-ROMs will be added to the network on a regular basis. Plans are under way to make multi-media products and access to the Internet available to clients by the end of 1995.
For further information contact: Ruth Cameron, Director Library Service or Sandra Jeffries, Librarian, Reference and Business on Tel.: (07) 252 9894
The marketing team of the National Library's Services to Libraries Division has a busy schedule planned for 1995, with members attending trade fairs at most major library conferences for the rest of the year. pleasevisit the National Library of Australia's stand at these conferences and talk to Rob Walls and Caroline Scharrer about our new developments.
Asia-Pacific Library Conference
28 May-1 June
Brisbane
Conference and Exhibition Centre
Chief Public Librarians Association Conference (QLD)
1-2
June
Brisbane City Travelodge
National Library Technicians Conference
12-14 July
Northern Territory University
Darwin
ABPA Book Fair 1995
13-16 July
Darling Harbour
Sydney
ABN Annual Users Meeting-Ozline Showcase
18-19 July
World Congress Centre
Melbourne
Country Public Libraries Association (NSW) Conference
19-21
July
Newcastle City Hall Convention Centre
Sixth Specials, Health and Law Librarians Conference
'Synergy in Sydney'
27-30 August
Darling Harbour
Sydney
National Reference and Information Services Conference
13-15 September
Ramada Grand Hotel
Adelaide
Australian School Library Association Fourteenth Biennial Conference
and Trade Exhibition
1-5 October
Esplanade Hotel
Fremantle
Reinventing Cataloguing
18-20 October
Sheraton on
Park
Sydney
Public Libraries Conference 1995
12-15 November
ANA
Hotel
Sydney
Information Superhighway Access Exhibition
16-18
November
Darling Harbour
Sydney
Norm Morrison, Manager NBD and Standards,retired from the Library on 28 April 1995. Following a career in the Royal Air Force, Norm spent a total of 23 years in the National Library where he held a variety of positions in Medline, Biosis, Films, Ozline and NBD.
The new manager is Bemal Rajapatirana. Bemal has worked at the National Library for five years, most recently as the editor of the Australian National Bibliography. She has held positions in Cataloguing, Gift and Exchange, and the NBD. Before coming to the National Library, Bemal held various short term appointments in the libraries of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Dept of the Treasury, ACT Institute of TAFE and Dept of Defence.
9 May 1995
Synergy in Sydney, the Specials, Health and Law Librarians Conference will be held on 27-30 August. The conference registration and program is out now.For details and brochure, contact Wael Foda (ACMS),
Tel.: (02) 332 4622,
Fax: (02) 332 4066 or email:
whfoda_acms@interconnect.com.au.
11 May 1995
The Therapeutic Goods Administration Library (ATGA) has a new fax number, (02) 6239 8423, not (02) 6238 8423 as previously publicised. Please amend your ILRS Directory.
11 May 1995
ABN cataloguers will be pleased to learn that a system change has been made so that the LON field will no longer highlight when a record is brought into CHANGE. There will no longer be anyneed to edit data in this field. The ABN system will mask the LON $z subfield when a record is brought into CHANGE. Any LON $z subfields in a record will still appear on the CGANGE screen and should not be edited in any way.
17 May 1995
Two large retrospective MARC files have been loaded to the NBD, adding to our holdings in Queensland. From the State Library of Queensland (QSL), we loaded 14 388 new records and added 23 752 holdings records to the database, with 5675 of these being unique holdings. University of Queensland (QU) contributed
14 248 records for serials and theses, with 8708 of these being new records. As some University of Queensalnd records have multiple holdings, 18 655 holdings records were added by this load, with 9791 of these unique to Queensland libraries.
These two file loads represent a considerable enhancement to the National Bibliographic Database.
23 May 1995
Bibliographic File 11 182 995 Holdings statements 22 092 160 Authority File 404 270 Original cataloguing 1 645 300
ANB 1972-present LC BOOKS 1968-8/5/95 LC SERIALS 1973-19/4/95 LC FILMS 1972-19/4/95 LC MUSIC 1984-19/4/95 LC MAPS 1973-19/4/95 LC CJK 1988-19/4/95 LC CJK SERIALS 1991-19/4/95 USGPO 1976-31/5/95 USNLM BOOKS 1984-7/12/93 USNLM SERIALS 1984-7/12/93 BNB 1971-15/5/95 CANADIANA 1974-19/4/95 NZNB 1982-18/4/95 SNB 1967-31/3/95
Total Bibliographic Records 11 200 764 Interims 521 436 Full Bibliographic Records 10 679 328 Books 9 195 497 Serials 1 033 509 Nonbooks 971 758
Cartographic materials 227 935 Sound recordings 239 697 Motion pictures & videos 166 713 Music scores 165 346 Filmstrips 25 515 Pictorial materials 35 705 Slides 16 782 Manuscripts 23 594 Kits 6 280 Transparencies 2 826 Charts 1 664 Games 1 571 Other 5 663
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