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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 54| December 2001


Kinetica: New Web Input Service

Kinetica has launched a new means of entering records into the National Bibliographic Database (NBD)—the Web Input Interface. It offers online cataloguing using the Internet, enabling those cataloguing a small number of titles each year to add records to the NBD. It will enrich the NBD by giving small libraries the facility to contribute their unique holdings. Kinetica users were invited in July to participate in a pilot implementation of the interface. The trial proved very successful, with 17 participants contributing 85 records.

Kinetica thanks all libraries who participated in the trial: Australian Government Analytical Laboratories Library, Australian Institute of Family Studies Library, Australian International Hotel School Library, Cairns City Library Service, Carl de Gruchy Library (St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne), Egis Consulting Australia Library, H.V. Evatt Library, Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Historic Houses Trust of NSW Library, Luther Seminary Library, Macquarie Regional Library, National Meteorological Library, Office for the Commissioner for Public Employment Library (South Australia), Queensland Dept. of Natural Resources and Mines Library, Queensland Environmental Protection Agency Library, Queensland Health Central Library, Randwick City Library Service, and theVictoria

Police Library Service Police Academy.

Web Input records contain quality data, including a URL for electronic records. The user-friendly cataloguing form provides comprehensive context-sensitive help. The interface was created to add original records to the NBD—it does not allow libraries to edit records already on the database. Libraries contributing to the NBD via the Web Input interface will be given the same incentive as libraries contributing holdings.

Libraries made many valuable suggestions in the pilot and the Web Input Interface has been improved by incorporating many of these suggestions. Kinetica customers now have three methods of contributing records to the NBD—online using the Kinetica Cataloguing Client, online through the Web Input Interface and through our Batch*Link service.

Any library wishing to use these Web Input Service should contact the Kinetica helpdesk—kinetica@nla.gov.au or 1800 026 155.

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