Libraries Australia Report and Strategic Directions

Tony BostonAssistant Director-GeneralResource Sharing

Outline

Transition to Libraries Australia Report on Libraries Australia - 2005/2006

– Services– Membership– Database growth – Usage

Libraries Australia developments Strategic directions

Kinetica Redevelopment Project

Two year project in 2003-2005 Completed in November 2005 on time and

under budget New service branded Libraries Australia:

– Libraries Australia Search – Libraries Australia Cataloguing– Libraries Australia Administration– Libraries Australia Document Delivery

Libraries Australia achievements

Improved performance Capacity to innovate Unicode support – CJK data in the ANBD Efficiencies in cataloguing, record import and

export Reliable platform for libraries to contribute data:

– Viable suppliers, assured future– Modular architecture reduces future risk – Roman and non-roman scripts supported

Financial benefits

Evaluation

Kinetica Redevelopment Project– Post Implementation Review– http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/documents/post_implementationreview.pdf

Libraries Australia – Customer and Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey– End User Survey

Libraries Australia business model

Supported by subscriptions of Australian libraries

All Australian State, Territory, university and most special, government and public libraries

July 2005 new subscription model introduced allowing unlimited searching resulting in increased use

Membership

Libraries Australia– More than 1,100 members– 84 new libraries in 05/06

8 individuals 22 public libraries from Western Australia

Libraries Australia Document Delivery– More than 660 members– 79 new libraries in 05/06

47 public libraries from NSW (former ILANET users)

Australian National Bibliographic Database growth

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Holdings

Bibliographicrecords

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2,000,000

4,000,000

6,000,000

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Database Searches

100,000

125,000

150,000

175,000

200,000

225,000

250,000

275,000

2000/2001 2001/2002 2002/2003 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/2006

Document Delivery Requests

Australian National Bibliographic Database

About 42 million holdings Over 16 million bibliographic records Over 600,000 online resources Over 10 million searches Almost 230,000 items requested through the

document delivery service

Libraries Australia free service

Launched by Senator Coonan on 27 February 2006 at Parliament House, Canberra

Regional launches in Geraldton, WA; Alice Springs, NT; Cairns, Qld and Burnie, Tas.

Find then get items by: – Accessing them online– Borrowing them from your local library– Borrowing them from another library– Buying a copy through Copies Direct– Buying them from an online bookshop

~10% of searches since its launch

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Subscription Free Target

2005/2006 searches

ANBD via Internet search engines

NLA is exposing ANBD content to Google and Yahoo!

ANBD records now in Google Scholar and Google Book Search

More pathways, more users

Google links to Libraries Australia

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Improving our services

ANBD Quality Improvement Plan– Data migration – Record Import Service

New search targets– Five CJK databases added

Support for new scripts– CJK, Thai– Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Tamil (in process)

New ways of obtaining records– Serial Solutions

Improving our services [2]

Libraries Australia Search– Five releases in 2005/2006– Cover art– Personalisation– Deep linking to national, state, university libraries– Links to more booksellers

Libraries Australia Cataloguing– Ease of use– Templates and context sensitive help

Improving our services [3]

Trans Tasman Interlending– NLA & NLNZ collaboration to allow seamless

interlending between Australian and New Zealand libraries

– 1 March – 30 June 2006 ~ 1600 items supplied to NZ libraries ~ 300 items supplied to Australian libraries

Improving our services [4]

RLG site licence negotiated for 2006/2007 OCLC small libraries agreement extended

Strategic directions

Libraries Australia business plan – 2007-2010 Improved finding

– Relevance ranking– Results clustering

Improved getting– Links to local library catalogues & booksellers– Links to full-text, eg Google Book Search, Amazon– Better fulfilment– User annotation

Software platform

Strategic directions [2]

Increase use of Libraries Australia– Search box– New targets: RMIT e-library, MediText, AGIS– OpenSearch: Cultural collections

ANBD coverage and quality– Article level metadata? – Schools data– Duplicate removal– Better match/merge

Relationship with OCLC

Strategic directions [3]

Citation of ANBD records=> cross links between services

Directory issues– Re-badge ALG and ILRS as part of Libraries

Australia– Integrate existing directories => single sign-on– Distributed authorisation to Libraries Australia

using Shibboleth/MAMS

Conclusion

Libraries Australia – Better performance– Improved functionality– Continuing to innovate– Opening up Australian library collections– Please use it, link to it, promote it to your users!