Libraries Australia Annual Report 2006/2007 Tony Boston Assistant Director-General Resource Sharing National Library of Australia
Jan 03, 2016
Libraries Australia Annual Report 2006/2007
Tony BostonAssistant Director-General
Resource SharingNational Library of Australia
Outline
• Libraries Australia status• Service update:
– Search– Document Delivery– ANBD development– Data syndication
• Strategic Plan 2007 – 2010• NLA – OCLC agreement
Libraries Australia status
• Libraries Australia services bedded down• Search and Document Delivery enhancements• Web site and documentation refresh• Service usage growth • Subscriptions growth and new models• Stakeholder and practitioner survey• Systems issue – February/ March 2007
– Now fixed with 99.7% availability since then
Libraries Australia Search
• Improved relevance ranking• Support for OpenSearch• Extended deep linking• Free search box for any web page
OpenSearch
Libraries Australia Total Searches
0
2,000,000
4,000,000
6,000,000
8,000,000
10,000,000
12,000,000
14,000,000
2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/2006 2006/2007
Subscription Service Free Service
Search activity
Libraries Australia Document Delivery
• Increased membership
• More ISO ILL-compliant sites
• Alerts emails
• More document delivery requests– 21% increase– Trans Tasman Interlending
• 7318 items supplied to NZ libraries• 2931 items supplied to Australian libraries
0
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
300,000
2002/2003 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/2006 2006/2007
Document Delivery RequestsDocument Delivery requests
ANBD Development
• 4.8 million bibliographic and/or holdings records processed through the Record Import Service (RIS)
• 200,000 records reviewed
• 20 libraries joined RIS
• Data improvement projects
• EAG on Electronic Resources
0
5,000,000
10,000,000
15,000,000
20,000,000
25,000,000
30,000,000
35,000,000
40,000,000
45,000,000
1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Holdings
Bibliographicrecords
Database growth
Data syndication
• Google.com
• Google Book Search
• Google Scholar
• OCLC Worldcat.org
From Google.com…
From Google Book Search …
Find this book in a library…
…in Dublin, Ohio
… in Brisbane, Queensland
Libraries Australia Links
Libraries Australia Links
2006/2007 links to Libraries Australia from Search Engines
0
20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
100,000
120,000
140,000
Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
Links from search engines
Libraries Australia strategic plan 2007-2010
• Environmental scan:– Search engines are first port of call
– Increased use of licensed e-resources
– User access expectations increasing
– Search then browse paradigm for OPACs
– Social networking: user contribution builds engagement
– Global, national and local metadata aggregations increase ‘gravitational pull’ of libraries
Libraries Australia strategic plan 2007-2010
• Strategic priorities:– Improve database currency, quality, coverage
and review scope– Enhance Libraries Australia services – Maintain and develop business models and
relationships– Improve management of directory data and
user administration
Improve the ANBD
• Implement automated duplicate removal
• Support batch loading of authority records
• Continue discussions to improve coverage of library holdings
• Continue data syndication to increase usage
Enhance Libraries Australia services
• Introduce new search features:– Improved relevance ranking– Clustering– Faceted browse– Local library and consortial views– New integrated discovery service
• based on ‘national data store’
=> Improved Libraries Australia services • targeting library needs
NLA–OCLC agreement
• Cataloguing and search access to WorldCat• Exposure of ANBD content
– Open WorldCat program– WorldCat.org– Cross-synchronisation of records
• FirstSearch and OCLC ILL access not included• RLG Catalogue & SCIPIO migrated to WorldCat• Libraries become governing members of OCLC• Benefits from OCLC/RLG research programs
Implementation status
• Access to WorldCat available via Libraries Australia (completed)
• Preparing for ANBD record load (now)
• Fix related to Z39.50 and Libraries Australia Search view of Australian holdings in WorldCat (November)
• Synchronisation in real time (~2008)
LibrariesAustralia Search
(TeraText) LibrariesAustralia
Cataloguing (CBS)
LOG
PUSH
SRU UPDATE
WorldCat identifiers,work ids
WorldCat
SRU UPDATE
OCLC Online Computer Library Center
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