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Kinetica
Annual Users’ Meeting 2004
This 2004
Kinetica Annual Users’ Meeting was held in The new search screens for the service replacing KineticaWeb, to be launched in December 2004, were demonstrated by Susan Collier of the National Library. The new service with its emphasis on both ‘find’ and ‘get’ will enable libraries with a subscription to search the National Bibliographic Database, international databases such as RLG and Te Puna, free services such as PictureAustralia and subscription services such as APAFT. Support for International Protocol (IP) authentication will also be available for libraries who wish to use the service.
Those who attended the meeting were excited about the increased functionality and speed that the new service offers. The presentation is available on the Kinetica website at: www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/aum/aum04/kssdemo.ppt. Feedback received from the meeting was very positive, with 94% of respondents rating the meeting overall as above average or excellent and 96% rating the meeting content above average or excellent. The National Bibliographic Database (NBD) now has almost 38 million holdings, 14.2 million bibliographic records and 574 000 electronic resources. In 2003–2004, there were 6 593 974 Kinetica searches, close to half-a-million more than in the previous period. Other major milestones for Kinetica included:
The Australian Music Centre won this year’s Kinetica Innovation Award,
for its use of new technology to significantly improve access to its very
special collection by sharing resource descriptions through the NBD and
Music The minutes of the meeting will be made available
shortly and will be advertised on the Kinetica website and via Kinetica-l.
Many thanks to all those who attended for their contributions on the day.
We look forward to seeing you all again next year. |
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