1. Heather Jenks Associate Director, Library Services
ANU Library and BONUS+
Heather Jenks Associate Director, Library Services

2. BONUS+ BONUS Plus member libraries
BONUS+ is a resource–sharing initiative that allows post graduate students and staff at the ANU giving access to over 7 million books from participating university libraries within Australia and New Zealand. If a book in our Library is unavailable, or we don't own a particular title, simply click on the BONUS+ link in the library catalogue to see if it is available to borrow
BONUS Plus member libraries
Auckland University of Technology (NZ)
Deakin University
Federation University Australia
Griffith University
Massey University (NZ)
Murdoch University
Queensland University of Technology
University of Melbourne
University of Newcastle
University of Sydney
University of Tasmania
University of Technology Sydney
University of Wollongong
Victoria University

3. Why BONUS+
The resource sharing landscape is evolving quickly and ANU Library would like to be able to offer greater flexibility to our users through the use of non-mediated services that access a wider variety of resources
The ANU Library is a Sierra site and this resource sharing technology works on both Millennium and Sierra Library management system.
BONUS+ is an INN-Reach module available from iii. The ANU Library already uses the INN-Reach Article Reach module for access to serial resources.

4. What is the Bonus?
When researching whether ANU Library should join or not we discovered that -
The University of Melbourne has found that they are net borrowers from BONUS, suggesting that for a research university access to broader collections meets an important need. This is likely to lead to greater research productivity – resource are available quickly and efficiently, reducing the time that the researcher and library staff have to spend with searching for resources or using manual systems.

5. BONUS+ at the ANU
It will be a circulation function that will be handled at the branch level by circulation supervisors.
The ANU BONUS+ Coordinator role is part of the User Services Coordinator position currently held by Vanessa Galloway in an acting capacity.
Important points for staff at the desk:
The service is not available to ANU undergraduate students.
Material is requested through the ANU Library Catalogue.
10 requests per patron at any one time.
Material from other universities will be available for pickup from the hold shelf at the branch library they specified when requesting
Sierra is set up to read the barcodes from other universities; books from other universities become virtual ANU books.
Loan length is strictly 21 days, under no circumstances should staff alter due dates.
One renewal only.
 ANU BONUS+ will go live for our community early in 2017.

6. Requests/Fulfilments

7. What is in BONUS+ for Library staff
Expectation will be that there will be fewer interlibrary loan requested that will need mediation by Library staff
Academic staff and PG students will enjoy greater access to resources, may cut down requests for help to find resources from this part of our community

8. BONUS+ vs Inter Library Loans (UoN)

9. Setting up the BONUS+ service
Staff have undertaken training for BONUS+ and will train up other staff on how to use the system
iii offer a Base Camp structure for us to work through to install the module
The University of Newcastle have BONUS+ staff who run the training sessions and are very knowledgeable and work in the role of Project managers for the installation of BONUS+
Thanks go to the following staff –
Mark Huppert, Glynn Shepherd and Paul Pretor have been involved in doing the “behind the scenes” work to get the module working for us.
Vanessa Galloway and Chris Williams have been testing, testing, testing!

10. BONUS+ test at ANU Library
So what will it look like, set up on the ANU Library staging server are these two links –

11. Any questions?