Building better public access into LibriVision OPAC
Abstract
This paper reports on developments at National Library of Australia to enable end users to more easily access information on material held in Australian libraries.
The National Library of Australia has provided online access to the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD) since 1981. Containing the National Union Catalogue for Australia, its major role initially was to support shared cataloguing. The Kinetica service now supports access to the database through its search service.
Since 1999 the Kinetica service has been underpinned by the AMICUS and LibriVision software, with IBM Business Consulting Services acting as systems integrator.
This paper details local customisations applied to the AMICUS and LibriVision applications at the National Library that facilitate access to the National Union Catalogue for the increasing numbers of non-librarian users of the Kinetica service.
Modifications to the LibriVision Advanced Search screen, coupled with the AMICUS Collections functionality, allow users without library expertise to better target their searches. They are able to easily limit their queries to particular types of publications, for example Theses, Conference Publications, Newspapers or Electronic Publications.
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