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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 50| April 2001
Kinetica Links to New Zealand
From left to right: Roxanne Missingham, Jenny McDonald, Ruth Miller and Bryony De La Motte
Kineticas software has the flexibility to allow the addition of new databases for its customers to search. The National Library plans to take advantage of this facility by adding new databases to the current list of databases available via Kinetica. The first addition is expected to be Te Puna, the service offered by the National Library of New Zealand that provides access to New Zealands National Bibliographic Database, which includes the New Zealand National Union Catalogue. Kinetica customers will be able to use Kinetica gateway to access Te Puna to obtain records for cataloguing, to find locations of material held in New Zealand libraries, and to request items on interlibrary loan.
Jenny McDonald, Manager, Te Puna Support, and Ruth Miller, Te Puna
Customer Support Consultant, from the National Library of New Zealand
visited the National Library in early March to discuss issues relating to
access between Kinetica and Te Puna. Topics discussed included the
contracts that are being arranged between the two national libraries for
provision of the services. These are now close to being finalised. In
addition to formalising the relationship between the two systems, each
must be configured to access the other. Some details of this access were
also discussed and testing of access has commenced.
Bryony De La Motte
Please address any comments and enquiries to The Editor, Gateways: dthomas@nla.gov.au