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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 52| August 2001
Site Licences for Kinetica
Kinetica provides access to the national database of material held in Australian libraries. Site licences provide unlimited access to Kinetica for a fixed annual sum. This gives Kinetica customer libraries certainty for budget planning and Kinetica a guaranteed level of revenue. Site licences have mainly been negotiated with larger users of Kinetica.
Increasingly library consortia have negotiated site licences with Kinetica. In some cases a number of libraries form consortia specifically to negotiate a Kinetica site licence for their group. The Metropolitan Public Libraries Association of New South Wales (MPLA) is an existing consortium, whose membership includes public libraries from the Sydney metropolitan area, plus a number of public libraries from councils adjacent to Sydney.
Over the past two years Kinetica staff and members of the
MPLA have been negotiating a site licence for MPLA members. Agreement on
details of the MPLA site licence was reached earlier this year. On 13
June, Meredith Wallace of Parramatta City Library Service and Susan
Shepherd of Campbelltown City Library, representing MPLA members visited
the National Library of Australia to sign the official agreement for the
MPLA Kinetica site licence. This agreement allows the more than 40 members
of the MPLA unlimited access to Kinetica Core Services and to the Kinetica
Document Delivery service for the 12 months commencing 1 July 2001. The
NSW Country Public Libraries Association is now considering a similar
agreement.
Bryony de la Motte
Please address any comments and enquiries to The Editor, Gateways: dthomas@nla.gov.au