Libraries Australia Annual Report 2006/2007

Tony BostonAssistant Director-General

Resource SharingNational Library of Australia

Outline

• Libraries Australia status• Service update:

– Search– Document Delivery– ANBD development– Data syndication

• Strategic Plan 2007 – 2010• NLA – OCLC agreement

Libraries Australia status

• Libraries Australia services bedded down• Search and Document Delivery enhancements• Web site and documentation refresh• Service usage growth • Subscriptions growth and new models• Stakeholder and practitioner survey• Systems issue – February/ March 2007

– Now fixed with 99.7% availability since then

Libraries Australia Search

• Improved relevance ranking• Support for OpenSearch• Extended deep linking• Free search box for any web page

OpenSearch

Libraries Australia Total Searches

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2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/2006 2006/2007

Subscription Service Free Service

Search activity

Libraries Australia Document Delivery

• Increased membership

• More ISO ILL-compliant sites

• Alerts emails

• More document delivery requests– 21% increase– Trans Tasman Interlending

• 7318 items supplied to NZ libraries• 2931 items supplied to Australian libraries

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2002/2003 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/2006 2006/2007

Document Delivery RequestsDocument Delivery requests

ANBD Development

• 4.8 million bibliographic and/or holdings records processed through the Record Import Service (RIS)

• 200,000 records reviewed

• 20 libraries joined RIS

• Data improvement projects

• EAG on Electronic Resources

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Holdings

Bibliographicrecords

Database growth

Data syndication

• Google.com

• Google Book Search

• Google Scholar

• OCLC Worldcat.org

From Google.com…

From Google Book Search …

Find this book in a library…

…in Dublin, Ohio

… in Brisbane, Queensland

Libraries Australia Links

Libraries Australia Links

2006/2007 links to Libraries Australia from Search Engines

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20,000

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Links from search engines

Libraries Australia strategic plan 2007-2010

• Environmental scan:– Search engines are first port of call

– Increased use of licensed e-resources

– User access expectations increasing

– Search then browse paradigm for OPACs

– Social networking: user contribution builds engagement

– Global, national and local metadata aggregations increase ‘gravitational pull’ of libraries

Libraries Australia strategic plan 2007-2010

• Strategic priorities:– Improve database currency, quality, coverage

and review scope– Enhance Libraries Australia services – Maintain and develop business models and

relationships– Improve management of directory data and

user administration

Improve the ANBD

• Implement automated duplicate removal

• Support batch loading of authority records

• Continue discussions to improve coverage of library holdings

• Continue data syndication to increase usage

Enhance Libraries Australia services

• Introduce new search features:– Improved relevance ranking– Clustering– Faceted browse– Local library and consortial views– New integrated discovery service

• based on ‘national data store’

=> Improved Libraries Australia services • targeting library needs

NLA–OCLC agreement

• Cataloguing and search access to WorldCat• Exposure of ANBD content

– Open WorldCat program– WorldCat.org– Cross-synchronisation of records

• FirstSearch and OCLC ILL access not included• RLG Catalogue & SCIPIO migrated to WorldCat• Libraries become governing members of OCLC• Benefits from OCLC/RLG research programs

Implementation status

• Access to WorldCat available via Libraries Australia (completed)

• Preparing for ANBD record load (now)

• Fix related to Z39.50 and Libraries Australia Search view of Australian holdings in WorldCat (November)

• Synchronisation in real time (~2008)

LibrariesAustralia Search

(TeraText) LibrariesAustralia

Cataloguing (CBS)

LOG

PUSH

SRU UPDATE

WorldCat identifiers,work ids

WorldCat

SRU UPDATE

OCLC Online Computer Library Center

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