1. LIBRARIES AUSTRALIA FORUM 2008 Emma Corbett Mary-Louise Weight

2. Libraries Australia for Reference Staff What’s New ? Upgrades to LA Search Getting the most out of Libraries Australia

3. GovRAP

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7. Small libraries can now search APAIS through Libraries Australia for FREE

8. Free Access to APAIS for Small Libraries

11. Using Limits Group 1 Group 2

12. Using Limits

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14. Search Libraries Australia through facebook

15. facebook Available here http://apps.facebook.com/librariesaustralia

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17. OpenSearch Targets  Powerhouse Museum  National Film and Sound Archive

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22. LA Search Upgrade - World Cat Holdings

23. LA Search Upgrade - Permalinks

25. http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an41952280 instead of http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss ?action=Display&mode=fulldisplay&target =nbd&queryid=4&startPos=28http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss ?action=Display&mode=fulldisplay&target =nbd&queryid=4&startPos=28

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27. Over 43 million items in over 800 Australian libraries The ladies clothing section of F.A.Howard, general merchantCreator: Gale Studio High St MaryboroughCourtesy: Museum Victoria and over 1 million digital images from Picture Australia Libraries Australia Search

28. End User Access  Personalisation  Alerts  Enhanced Requesting

29. Personalisation  Reference staff and users can  have their own ‘Accounts’  save records and queries into a personal folder  have access outside the library  have access to specified databases  You can run reports on account use

31. Create a personal account (for library staff and users) Customise Libraries Australia

32. the subscription service 32 Customise Libraries Australia Search using limits

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34. Alerts  Save a search query  Run again automatically  Searches for newly added material or changed records  Search results sent by email with links through to ANBD

35. 35 Click on Search History

36. Save query as alert – emails notifications to you 36

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41. Enhanced Requesting  Links Libraries Australia Search with Libraries Australia Document Delivery  Networked with over 700 libraries.  Mediated by ILL library staff

44. Most Importantly These Libraries Australia Search features are:  Available at no extra cost  Able to be customised to suit your libraries requirements

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46. OpenSearch

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49. Deep Linking

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55. How we can help you and you can help us………. News Libraries Australia User Group meetings Email Discussion Lists Libraries Australia promotion material Tell us what you think

56. News

57. User Group Meetings What’s in it for Reference staff? Are the meetings relevant? Do you go? Why/why not Do you read the minutes of other user group meetings? Do you subscribe to the lists?

58. Libraries Australia Promotion

59. Suggestion form

60. Getting More Help Phone:1800 026 155 (8.30am to 5.30pm ADST/AEST) Fax: 02 6273 1180 librariesaustralia@nla.gov.au subscribe to the email lists, librariesaustralia-l, andlibrariesaustralia-l librariesaustraliadocdel-l nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia

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