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A NEW NATIONAL LIBRARY CATALOGUE

 

Ross Gould (b.1946)
Brett Daffy performing his own choreography in Equalibrium-Laughing, Crying, Deep 1994
b&w photograph; 30.3 x 23.9 cm
Pictures Collection, nla.pic-an24809080

This recent aquisition is now available online through the National Library website and Australia Dancing

The Library’s primary avenue of access to its Collection, the catalogue, has been redeveloped over the past 12 months as part of the implementation of Voyager, the new integrated library management system. This system underpins many of the Library’s collection management activities—purchasing, cataloguing and lending—as well as supporting public access to the Library’s Collection through the catalogue. Launched with the restructured website, the new catalogue brings the Library significantly closer to realising its strategic objective of assisting people to ‘find and get’ items in the Collection. Faster to access and easier to search, the new catalogue displays images with search results for items that have been digitised. Users are drawn into the catalogue from a series of ‘find’ pages that focus on what users want to find rather than the tools they need to find things, while obtaining copies of collection items is made easier by a convenient link to Copies Direct, a fee-based document delivery service provided by the Library direct to any user.