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End of the Forum

Some questions on short notice, in relation to payment for contributions of original cataloguing; the expected updates to the cataloguing client (refer to the earlier interactive session on Cataloguing & Metadata Futures). The Victorian Libraries User Group asked whether templated cataloguing available in the past will continue and the response was ‘yes’. Further information will [...]

Trove is launched!

Warwick Cathro
Warwick started by explaining that there is lots of information about the service behind the About tab, including technical details of the new platform. Many contribution pathways, from services such as Picture Australia and People Australia.
Warwick did a live search in Trove for well-known Australian writer, Ethel Turner. There are links to books by and [...]

Why do we need to reimagine libraries? Margaret Allen, CEO State Library of Western Australia

The exhibition, Treasures from the World’s Great Libraries in 2002, was the impetus for change. The national and state libraries developed a provocation paper in 2007, The Big Bang. Its seven main messages were:
1. access is the primary driver of the business of libraries;
2. digitisation can no longer be ignored, it is a core part of [...]

Cataloguing and Metadata Futures

Bemal Rajapatirana, the ANBD Manager, spoke about new developments.
To date, over 50,000 duplicate records have been removed by the Offline Duplicate Detection software. We anticipate that 250,000 duplicates will be removed by the first ISBN pass through the database; this will take 3-4 months.
An upgrade to the cataloguing client will be distributed later this year.
The cataloguing server [...]

Libraries Australia Report 2009 – Warwick Cathro

Warwick presented a summary of Libraries Australia activities during 2008/09. [Read the full report next week on the Libraries Australia web site.] A new Strategic Plan is available, and will be updated every six months.
The ANBD now contains 20 million bibliographic records. We did global holdings updates for 68 member libraries in the past year [...]

Current status and future of the CBS system – Janifer Gatenby, Research Integration and Standards, OCLC

First, the past. Copy cataloguing by sending a duplicate card to the National Library. In 1969, Tasmania installed its first computer, shared by the University of Tasmania and the Hydro-Electric Commission. The State Library also received a copy of LCMARC. Only four copies remain.
Now there is a mosaic of library systems.
CBS, which sits behind Libraries Australia, supports [...]

Current social, policy and technology influences on libraries and their relevance in this environment – Jim Michalko, RLG Programs Development, OCLC

What is happening ?
Risk clusters (Source: www.oclc.org/research/dss/ppt/dss_kenney.pdf)
1. value proposition – a reduced sense of library relevance from within and without, which affected perceptions of how libraries should be funded
2. human resources – uncertainty about capacity for leadership in the face of change, inadequate preparation. The most significant obstacle to the future success of the library in [...]

Introduction by Warwick Cathro

Welcome by the chair of the Libraries Australia Advisory Committee, Linda Luther. Linda announced that Anne Horn, University Librarian at Deakin University, has been elected as the new chair of the LAAC from 2010. Warwick introduced Libraries Australia staff and staff from the NLA’s IT Division, who were warmly welcomed by the local organising committee.
Warwick then paid a [...]

Libraries Australia Forum about to start

Hobart has welcomed 145 delegates to the Libraries Australia Forum. It follows a very successful seminar hosted by Charles Sturt University yesterday at the Hobart Function and Convention Centre.
The Forum was opened by the Director-General of the National Library, Jan Fullerton.

LAF2009 – less than a week to go

Only a few days to go until the Libraries Australia Forum in Hobart. The last time it was held in Tasmania was 15 years ago, in July 1994. Then it was known as the Australian Bibliographic Network (ABN) Annual Users’ Meeting and it was held over two days.
Now the Forum is held on one day, [...]