Theses record exchange: developments in the Australian National Union Catalogue Roxanne Missingham and Margaret Kennedy, Director, National Library of Australia

Access to theses in Australia Role of the Australian National Bibliographic Database Theses in the Database Libraries Australia Standards and future directions

Access to theses in Australia Union list National Bibliographic Database

Role of the Australian National Bibliographic Database Supports cooperative cataloguing, enabling Australian libraries to reduce the costs of their cataloguing by using records created by others; supports interlending, allowing Libraries to share resources by borrowing (or receiving copies) of library materials; immediate access to online resources; support for cooperative collection development; and access to the collections of Australian libraries for individual researchers, enabling identification of relevant material in Australian libraries and online.

Key statistics 2005: Australian National Bibliographic Database Over 40 million holdings Over 14 million bibliographic records Over 6.5 million Kinetica searches in 04/05 Over 230,000 items supplied through the document delivery system in 04/05

ANBD coverage of print theses

ANBD coverage of electronic theses

Libraries Australia

Record sharing –Input – via web form and record loading –Output - – Enhanced services –Alerts –Personalisation

Standards Record descriptions for theses for contribution of records to the ANBD esesrev.doc Issues for digital theses include 856, 500 notes, enriched data such as abstracts and table of contents