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		<title>End of the Forum</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nla.gov.au/labs/2009/11/06/end-of-the-forum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; Metadata Futures). The Victorian Libraries User Group asked whether templated cataloguing available in the past will continue and the response was &#8216;yes&#8217;. Further information will [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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 &amp; Metadata Futures). The Victorian Libraries User Group asked whether templated cataloguing available in the past will continue and the response was &#8216;yes&#8217;. Further information will be distributed about this.</p>
<p>Spontaneous question from the audience: where did the name Trove come from? It means a &#8216;treasure trove&#8217;, &#8220;a collection of valuable or delightful things&#8221;; in French, to find or to discover&#8230;</p>
<p>Many thanks to the local organising committee: Leonie Atkins, Di Worth, Amanda Stein, and Wendy Rimon.</p>
<p>Thanks also to the keynote speakers who have travelled a considerable distance: Janifer Gatenby, Jim Michalko, and Margaret Allen.  See you all next year on 20 10 2010.</p>
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		<title>Trove is launched!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nla.gov.au/labs/2009/11/06/trove-is-launched/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Warwick Cathro</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Warwick did a live search in <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au">Trove</a> for well-known Australian writer, Ethel Turner. There are links to books by and about her, the TV series <em>Seven Little Australians</em>, and biographical metadata but no maps (as intended).</p>
<p>Trove is supported by lots of harvesting from authoritative Australian sites. It is architected to expose wonderfully rich local collections in public libraries.</p>
<p>Warwick did a search on Beerwah in Queensland. An image of picking pineapples, by a gentleman named Allister Fullerton. The Director-General, Jan Fullerton, identified this image as her father. In real time, Warwick added a comment to say so, reflecting that it is now possible to capture information from the general public who may have information about any iten in the service.</p>
<p>Jan said she is completely addicted to Trove, and loves to spend hours following strands of interest. It is the highest evolutionary work in the last 40 years of sharing. Finding Beerwah took infinite work, over many years, now brought together in the one place. We can find things we never dreamed of finding before. It is a testament to the vision of Australian libraries and their collaboration. Jan acknowledged the staff of the National Library, who accept the challenge of change. Jan thanked Warwick Cathro as project leader, thanked the IT project team, and declared the service launched.</p>
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		<title>Why do we need to reimagine libraries? Margaret Allen, CEO State Library of Western Australia</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nla.gov.au/labs/2009/11/06/why-do-we-need-to-reimagine-libraries-margaret-allen-ceo-state-library-of-western-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The exhibition, Treasures from the World&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The exhibition, Treasures from the World&#8217;s Great Libraries in 2002, was the impetus for change. The national and state libraries developed a provocation paper in 2007, <a href="http://www.nsla.org.au">The Big Bang</a>. Its seven main messages were:</p>
<p>1. access is the primary driver of the business of libraries;</p>
<p>2. digitisation can no longer be ignored, it is a core part of library business; can mass digitisation be achieved collaboratively?</p>
<p>3. every library job will change;</p>
<p>4. the web is changing expectations and behaviour;</p>
<p>5. some activities will no longer be done, but productivity gains also need to be made;</p>
<p>6. experimentation and risk are necessary;</p>
<p>7. clients&#8217; spaces need to be welcoming, and allow clients to be independent.</p>
<p>Some challenges:</p>
<p>The OCLC 2005 <a href="http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200678.htm">study</a> was influential. Current library resource allocation focuses on the people coming in the door, but this needs to be reversed. Visitors to the SLWA building to use library services peaked in 1997-98. Reference queries: in 1998-99 staff answered 206,000 enquiries &#8211; this was reduced to 80,000 last year.</p>
<p>Long-held paradigms of copyright and ownership are being challenged. <a href="http://newspapers.nla.gov.au">Australian Newspapers </a>is a powerful example of how online content is of interest around the world, attracting an international community.</p>
<p>Publishing changes: there is a trend away from ordering hard-copy non-fiction because the material is mostly online. The speed of technology changes will affect the NSLA five-year plan for its Reimagining Libraries initiative.</p>
<p>Innovation could come from any sector &#8211; many of us are enriching our knowledge by employing people from non-library backgrounds. In some cases, we need to set aside long-lasting beliefs.</p>
<p>Workflow indicators:</p>
<p>A lot of things peaked in 1997/98, but a new set of indicators also arose from that time &#8211; number of website hits, digital image counts, first archiving of a web site to <a href="http://pandora.nla.gov.au">PANDORA</a>.</p>
<p>Reimagining libraries has three strategies: &#8216;one&#8217; library &#8211; the ability to receive the same suite of services from all national, state and territory libraries in Australasia; transforming our work culture to ensure that it is agile; and accessible content &#8211; improving both its management and delivery. <strong>In SLWA, there are no longer books on the ground floor.</strong></p>
<p>Project 4 &#8211; Delivery.</p>
<p>Individuals ordering resources to their place of choice, led by the State Library of Western Australia. WA is uniquely placed to work on this, given the size of the state and its far-reaching public libraries. The benefits of the project include:</p>
<p>1. faster delivery online, less staff mediation</p>
<p>2. larger collections accessible to non-traditional library users</p>
<p>3. increase of the use of the national interlibrary loan services</p>
<p>4. provide a consistent borrowing experience across all the libraries concerned</p>
<p>&#8220;Where there is no vision the people perish.&#8221;</p>
<p>Questions:</p>
<p>1. with one library approach, content delivery will be improved. Are we surveying users to find out impact of the improvements? Yes, one of the work packages is to generate performance measures. Will test with the WA music collection.</p>
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		<title>Interlibrary Loans: Current ILL issues, Overview of LADD developments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurel Paton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The panel for this parallel session consists of:
Margaret Allen &#8211; State Library of Western Australia ; Janifer Gatenby &#8211; OCLC ; Deborah Fuller &#8211; National Library of Australia and Debbie Hanington &#8211; National Library of Australia.
Deborah Fuller, National Library of Australia provided a brief report on Libraries Australia Document Delivery.

Currently 730 libraries use LADD Web interface. This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The panel for this parallel session consists of:</p>
<p>Margaret Allen &#8211; State Library of Western Australia ; Janifer Gatenby &#8211; OCLC ; Deborah Fuller &#8211; National Library of Australia and Debbie Hanington &#8211; National Library of Australia.</p>
<p><strong>Deborah Fuller, National Library of Australia provided a brief report on Libraries Australia Document Delivery</strong>.</p>
<ul>
<li>Currently 730 libraries use LADD Web interface. This is up from 396 in 2001.</li>
<li>Currently 73 libraries use their won ISO ILL compliant system to interoperate with LADD.</li>
<li>LADD (VDX) software was upgraded in November 2008 with a number of new and improved features.</li>
<li>LADD will be upgraded again in 2010. It will include significant  changes to visual displays and the LADD interface</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Debbie Hanington, National Library of Australia provided a &#8216;live&#8217; demonstration of the use of DocStore using the Libraries Australia Document Delivery training database</strong> <a href="http://docdel-train.librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/index.html">http://docdel-train.librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/index.html</a></p>
<p>LADD and Training</p>
<p>The training of staff allows the full exploitation of the functionality within LADD. Users can work their way through the LADD manual. A list of trainers is available from the Libraries Australia web page <a href="https://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/training/trainerdirectory.html">https://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/training/trainerdirectory.html</a></p>
<p>LADD Member and Suspension Directory. There will be a web page which will list all LADD users and those which have temporarily suspended their use.</p>
<p><strong>VDX 4.1.1 &#8211; New functionality &#8211; due for release 2010</strong></p>
<p>Work queues &#8211; same functionality. There will be a change to the display.</p>
<p>Requests flagged as &#8216;to be acknowledged&#8217; automatically flagged as&#8217;acknowledged&#8217;.</p>
<p>Option to select &#8216;Mark as unread&#8217; to keep request&#8217;s Authorisation Status as &#8216;To be acknowledged&#8217;.</p>
<p>TIFF files will be able to be converted to PDF.</p>
<p>Single scrolling page will replaced tabbed views.</p>
<p>Pressing &#8216;Enter&#8217; key same as clicking on the &#8216;Submit&#8217; button.</p>
<p><strong>Margaret Allen &#8211; State Library of Western Australia &#8211; Re-imagining libraries -  Project 4: Delivery</strong></p>
<p>One library &#8211; constistent experience across libraries. Transforming our culture &#8211; developing a new mix of skills and knowledge so we can delivery our vision and build on our culsture of innovation and exploration. Accessible content &#8211; improved and easy access to our content. More of unique collections in digital format,  with improved management of digital content.</p>
<p>Key products/services/outcomes for Project 4 include model to offer digital delivery to the user on request, implementation of digital delivery service across Australlia, pilot of physical delivery to the home, evaluation of home delivery pilot, strategy to roll out home delivery which balances preservation with physical access.</p>
<p>Work packages in this project include key technical issues, interoperability, unmediated access, lending, fees and charges, statistics and home delivery.</p>
<p><strong>Janifer Gatenby &#8211; OCLC &#8211; New standards for resource delivery</strong></p>
<p>We need to transfer information requests to the delivery service that supports a particular library. Request Transfer Message is a new generation standard. It is a simple standard that will sit on top of web services &#8211; on top of the http protocol.</p>
<p>Open URL RTM will deliver a request to a local delivery system which can be a national system. However, if the resource is not held in the country, there is a requirement to request the resource internationally and it is at this level that the infrastructure is not up to the task. The existing standards being used are ISO 10161 (aging, complex) and NCIP &#8211; transacts on a known item with a known identifier, more for circulation rather than ILL.</p>
<p>RTM may result in immediate access to online digital object &#8211; but it may not.</p>
<p>New work started on ISO for physical delivery of library resources.</p>
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		<title>Cataloguing and Metadata Futures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bemal Rajapatirana, the ANBD Manager, spoke about new developments.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>An upgrade to the cataloguing client will be distributed later this year.</p>
<p>The cataloguing server will be upgraded in the first quarter of next year. The release will include support for transmission of records from WorldCat to Libraries Australia using SRU Record Update. We recommend you talk to your vendor about implementing this protocol on your own platform, so that the ANBD can be updated in real time.</p>
<p>We are currently undertaking a project to add OCLC identifiers to the Search and Cataloguing databases and include them in records distributed to user libraries. We are keen to do this to improve deep linking from WorldCat to library catalogues. We expect OCLC numbers to be in production by December. We will be happy to provide you with concordance files to support this new key &#8211; just look out for our offer later this year.</p>
<p>As part of the ongoing Record Import Service, we plan to update RIS data validation and conversion algorithms to reduce the number of obsolete MARC data elements and coded data data values that are added to the ANBD. We will also use global changes to selectively replace obsolete MARC21 data elements and codes in ANBD records.</p>
<p>Looking ahead: Resource Description and Access (RDA); addition of records for digital resources. The latter is supported automatically with several vendors &#8211; just ask us how you can activate this.</p>
<p>Pam Gatenby reprised her <a href="http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/empoweringusers.html">CSU Seminar </a>presentation from yesterday &#8211; refer to it for full details &#8211; regarding the Reimagining Libraries Project 8.</p>
<p>Deirdre Kiorgaard &#8211; RDA and other standards. LCSH &#8211; genre/form headings being derived &#8211; law, religion, geography. IFLA names of persons guide will be used in RDA. Australia working on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders with AIATSIS.</p>
<p>What RDA is:</p>
<p>It is a new standard to replace AACR. RDA has a broader scope &#8211; includes authorities. Instructions will be a web tool. <strong>It is not a replacement for MARC21 (that is, not an encoding scheme) or an ILMS.</strong> Won&#8217;t necessarily result in less cataloguing work, but will facailitate exploitation of FRBR. The National Library of Australia will be involved in its testing.</p>
<p>Release expected in June 2010. Earliest implementation is mid 2011. The Australian Committee on Cataloguing and the National Library will provide advice and information via training, and documentation on library system changes such as required data conversions. However, it is possible to start now by just learning about RDA &#8211; refer to this presentation next week on the Libraries Australia web site for appropriate links. The <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/acoc.html">ACOC</a> website provides the most information.</p>
<p>Questions:</p>
<p>Q1. re batch loading of authorities, matching is robust, but we will have to resolve the non-hits.</p>
<p>Q2. the widget for SRU Record Update &#8211; what date will it be available? Bemal advised that some supporting functionality will be available in CBS version 5, which could be used to encourage vendors to adopt it also.</p>
<p>Q3. accommodating local information in ANBD records &#8211; plans for adding annotation data? This does require system changes to support Institution Specific Data (ISD) in the MARC21 Holdings format. The CBS system supports it, but it will also require local system support. An <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/EAGisd.html">Expert Advisory Group report </a>describes the Libraries Australia position on this.</p>
<p>Q4. modifying records to support <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/network.html">minimum</a> Libraries Australia record requirements?</p>
<p>Q5. Will we lose the advanced search service? No, not from the Libraries Australia subscription service. It will also be possible to use facets searching in Trove to replicate this sort of functionality.</p>
<p>Q6. Personalisation in Libraries Australia &#8211; will a certain type of searches still be permitted? For example, relevance ranking options through sort will remain. We can identify futher improvements for the subscription search service through our ning space.</p>
<p>Q7. Victorian User Group meeting keen to know why enhanced records lost, such as diacritics. Important to tell us which records, so that we can rereate the trail in case corruption occurred. Please contact <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/contact/index.html">our Help Desk </a>at any time.</p>
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		<title>Libraries Australia Report 2009 &#8211; Warwick Cathro</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nla.gov.au/labs/2009/11/06/libraries-australia-report-2009-warwick-cathro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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 <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/whatsnew.html#strategicplan">Strategic Plan </a>is available, and will be updated every six months.</p>
<p>The ANBD now contains 20 million bibliographic records. We did global holdings updates for 68 member libraries in the past year and we are adding 180,00 Tables of Contents from the Library of Congress. From now, with your assistance, we will aim to fill the gaps identified in the ANBD Coverage Survey such as maps collections and manuscripts collections.</p>
<p>As we sleep, 2,500 record duplicates are being removed from the ANBD every night, (through matching on the ISBN key) and will take three months.</p>
<p>Document Delivery:</p>
<p>An important but hidden activity is the amount of testing we do to suppport systems running with the ISO/ILL protocol. A new release of the VDX software is expected in March 2010. We are in discussion with OCLC about interoperability with WorldCat Resource Sharing. This follows the trend of increased use of the ILL system.</p>
<p>Search:</p>
<p>See the Libraries Australia <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/whatsnew.html">What&#8217;s New </a>page for details of new search features, including the introduction of the copyright status button.</p>
<p>How we kept in touch with you:</p>
<p>New activities took place including the introduction of the RefTracker software for the Help Desk, three issues of an e-newsletter (not seen since the days of the ABN print newsletter), a communal discussion space in ning, and a national <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/whatsnew.html#roadshow">roadshow</a> series.</p>
<p><strong>New search service</strong></p>
<p>By the end of the month, the existing Libraries Australia free search service will be decommissioned and replaced with the National Library&#8217;s new <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au">Trove</a> service. Look out for further news about this from next week regarding how it will change some workflow practices, and stayed tuned (on this blog) for the official launch later today.</p>
<p>Warwick encouraged libraries to create a catalogue record for pages describing individual collections. It is intended to use subfield 3 of the 856 tag with the text &#8216;collection summary&#8217; to include in new records for the ANBD. These will be then harvested into Trove &#8211; more guidelines about this soon.</p>
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		<title>Current status and future of the CBS system &#8211; Janifer Gatenby, Research Integration and Standards, OCLC</title>
		<link>http://blogs.nla.gov.au/labs/2009/11/06/current-status-and-future-of-the-cbs-system-janifer-gatenby-research-integration-and-standards-oclc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p>Now there is a mosaic of library systems.</p>
<p>CBS, which sits behind Libraries Australia, supports high volumes of transactions and feeds other systems. There are nine installations world-wide. It runs the university network in France, the Swiss Union Catalogue etc. Interoperability offered with <em>ftp</em> and OAI-PMH for batch loading, copy cataloguing via Z39.50 and SRU, and contributions to WorldCat with SRU Record Update which occur in near real-time (under five seconds). Australia was the second country to implement this, the Dutch were the first. It has been very successful in both countries.</p>
<p>Not yet sending detailed holdings via SRU Record Update, or authority records, but these are scheduled. A synchronisation gateway is planned &#8211; it will work between many platforms, and will be developed for Libraries Australia.</p>
<p>A new CBS Job Management system is under development. The specification was written by Joanna Meakins at the National Library, and was adopted by all CBS partners. It will allow database managers to administer routine database operations without involving IT staff.</p>
<p>Libraries Australia is one of the oldest union catalogues in the world &#8211; Australia is streets ahead of other countries in this respect. <strong>While we don&#8217;t know where users will start a search, we do know where we want them to finish.</strong> Catalogues need to be inter-related. Global exposure via WorldCat is the goal. It contains 147 million records; and 1,467 million holdings. It contains 470 languages. WorldCat measures the numbers of clickthroughs to Libraries Australia &#8211; 148,639 clickthroughs in the last financial year.</p>
<p>Exposure brings responsibility &#8211; need to do so efficiently. Need to ensure delivery. This can involve a OpenURL resolver. But even more basic requirements need to be fulfilled - 77 million records in WorldCat, which should have an ISBN, do not.</p>
<p>Cooperative Collection Management</p>
<p>OCLC now offers a collection analysis service. Allows people to compare holdings with in a group, or within the global collection. Could be used to identify vulnerable titles, which could be digitised, which could be relegated etc.</p>
<p>How to enrich the catalogue.</p>
<p>Janifer has always firmly believed that data is the most important thing. Data-related projects are: VIAF &#8211; contains 11.9 million personal name authority records from around the world including Australia; FRBRisation; evaluative and social data (the National Library&#8217;s <a href="http://newspapers.nla.gov.au">Australian Newspapers</a> service is a world-class example). <a href="http://dewey.info">Dewey</a> Web Services &#8211; DDC summaries in nine languages now.</p>
<p>User creation of lists has been the most successful activity in the WorldCat user community so far.</p>
<p>When data can be shared. Should we have a cooperative acquisitions process, given our common collections? In Denmark, all circulation data collected nationally, so can advise what are the most borrowed (or best-read) books across the country, in particular languages.</p>
<p>Responsibilities for the future: At the global level &#8211; exposure of collections and services, curation of the rare and priceless, electronic delivery architecture. At the regional/national level &#8211; all global roles plus management of the collective collection; provide the delivery services and its physical architecture.</p>
<p>Questions:</p>
<p>1. What is ISNI? International Standard Name Identifier (similar to an ISBN, but for people). Will be used inVIAF, to help resolve identities.</p>
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		<title>Current social, policy and technology influences on libraries and their relevance in this environment &#8211; Jim Michalko, RLG Programs Development, OCLC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Campbell</dc:creator>
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Risk clusters (Source: www.oclc.org/research/dss/ppt/dss_kenney.pdf)
1. value proposition &#8211; a reduced sense of library relevance from within and without, which affected perceptions of how libraries should be funded
2. human resources &#8211; uncertainty about capacity for leadership in the face of change, inadequate preparation. The most significant obstacle to the future success of the library in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is happening ?</p>
<p>Risk clusters (Source: <a href="http://http://www.oclc.org/research/dss/ppt/dss_kenney.pdf">www.oclc.org/research/dss/ppt/dss_kenney.pdf</a>)</p>
<p>1. value proposition &#8211; a reduced sense of library relevance from within and without, which affected perceptions of how libraries should be funded</p>
<p>2. human resources &#8211; uncertainty about capacity for leadership in the face of change, inadequate preparation. The most significant obstacle to the future success of the library in the academy was perceived to be the unwillingness and inability of existing library staff to change &#8211; a high 37%.</p>
<p>3. durable goods &#8211; changing value of library collections and space &#8211; assessment of the collections in Ohio universities revealed that 80% of use of collections comes from 13% of book stock &#8211; do we continue to invest in materials which don&#8217;t have value? <strong>Books have held us up in both senses of the word</strong>.</p>
<p>4. legacy technology &#8211; Libraries Australia sets a good example for how to overcome this.</p>
<p>5. intellectual property &#8211; US turned upside down by the Google Book settlement &#8211; the world will be dramatically different. Implications of Google Book search: RLG Programs working with New York University and <a href="http://www.hathitrust.org">Hathi Trust</a>. Work shows that 60% of NYU book collections can be relegated, and digital copies used.</p>
<p>Why is it happening?</p>
<p>Because of the network. The network has reconfigured whole industries &#8211; travel, news(papers), book retail. We have to work through what systemwide reconfiguration means for libraries. We have a nineteenth century model &#8211; library as collection, print provider, proximity, convenience&#8230;</p>
<p>Now, attention is scarce, discovery happens elsewhere, selection happens without us.</p>
<p>What should we be doing?</p>
<p>Unbundle and choose a focus. Helpful to think about a library and its place. The most useful framework is a 10-year old article &#8211; <em><a href="http://www.pardis.ir/articles/pdf/Hagel-UNBUNDING_THE_CORPORATION.pdf">Unbundling the Corporation </a></em>by<em> </em>J Hagel and M Singer. <a href="http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an1871876">Harvard Business Review </a>1999. Example &#8211; classified ads unbundled from newspapers.</p>
<p>We should be in the customer relationship management business -we have distinct local capacities to exploit. The infrastructure business is the one which is going to be taken apart. Books will need to be available in a collective way. repositories will also move to the cloud. Libraries Australia an interesting example of moving the infrastructure.</p>
<p>Who should do what?</p>
<p>Need a variety of levels &#8211; individual, department, discipline, collaboratively-sourced &#8211; Libraries Australia offers the choice to do things together, public support. Think about the distinctive scope of the institution &#8211; what are you good at ? Customer management is local, Libraries Australia is regional, then discovery can happen at the global level.</p>
<p>Can we do it?</p>
<p>Yes, we can. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t like change, you are going to like irrelevance a lot less.&#8221; General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army 2003</p>
<p>Questions:</p>
<p>1. any local examples of a library which has made such changes? Caltech shopping for this now. Ask questions such as could I become a supplier to my peers?</p>
<p>2. special collections &#8211; are they assets? They are not distinguishing unless mobilised in the customer relationship &#8211; have to push them out in both institutional and public context.</p>
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		<title>Introduction by Warwick Cathro</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s IT Division, who were warmly welcomed by the local organising committee.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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&#8217;s IT Division, who were warmly welcomed by the local organising committee.</p>
<p>Warwick then paid a tribute to Michael Baker, from the State Library of Tasmania, who passed away in July 2009. Michael convened the State&#8217;s User Group meetings for Libraries Australia. A staunch ally of the service, he is and will be sadly missed. This Forum is a memorial to his professional and unstinting service.</p>
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		<title>Libraries Australia Forum about to start</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hobart has welcomed 145 delegates to the Libraries Australia Forum. It follows a very successful <a href="http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/empoweringusers.html">seminar</a> hosted by Charles Sturt University yesterday at the Hobart Function and Convention Centre.</p>
<p>The Forum was opened by the Director-General of the National Library, Jan Fullerton.</p>
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