Libraries Australia Report and Strategic Directions Tony Boston Assistant Director-General Resource Sharing

Outline Transition to Libraries Australia Report on Libraries Australia /2006 – Services – Membership – Database growth – Usage Libraries Australia developments Strategic directions

Kinetica Redevelopment Project Two year project in 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 – 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

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

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

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 – 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!