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DO WE STILL NEED A CATALOGUE?

DR MARIE-LOUISE AYRES. DO WE STILL NEED A CATALOGUE? Discovery, delivery, and engagement at the National Library of Australia. The National Library of Australia. Creates most original Australian catalogue records; purchases others from vendors

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DO WE STILL NEED A CATALOGUE?

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  1. DR MARIE-LOUISE AYRES DO WE STILL NEED A CATALOGUE? Discovery, delivery, and engagement at the National Library of Australia

  2. The National Library of Australia • Creates most original Australian catalogue records; purchases others from vendors • Digitised 2.5 million newspaper pages and 14,000 other items in 2012-2013 • Subscribes to large number of licensed resources • Operates Libraries Australia: national union catalogue and utility, (33 years) • Operates Trove: national discovery service (5 years)

  3. Use of our collections and services • National Library’s online catalogue • Down 29% on last year • Requests for material in Reading Rooms • Up 2% • Requests for ILL/document supply • Down 9% • Use of licensed eResources • static • Visits to Trove • 21 million, up 26% on last year • 75% visits come via Google…

  4. Our problem • No single service for our physical collections + all our digital collections + all our licensed resources

  5. NLA Catalogue • VuFind catalogue: all physical collections, non-newspaper digital collections, metadata for eResources. • Supports eCallslips for all collections

  6. eResources • No commercial discovery layer, e.g. Primo or Summon • Spend lots of AU$ on eResourcesbut use is low • Not integrated into catalogue OR Trove

  7. Trove • Access to all NLA physical collections + all NLA digital collections (including newspapers), but … not to all licensed resources. • AND holdings and digital collections from 1000+ Australian libraries, museums etc..

  8. The triggers • Our Voyager ILMS needs to be replaced • Budgets are tighter and there is no ‘pot of gold’ • Public is hungry for full content • Combining access to bibliographic metadata, full text indexing, and commercial databases is complex and expensive (we know…) • So is maintaining separate systems…

  9. ILMS • We certainly need a new Integrated Library Management System: cataloguing; inventory; claiming; purchase orders; reporting; data import and export, but… • Do we need a separate NLA catalogue interface for our users?

  10. Discovery has left the building • 75% of all visits to our catalogue and Trove come from Google • We no longer expect users to start their search at our home pages • We expose all Trove content through an API, so it will be available in many services • We invite others to use our resources in new ways

  11. And Engagement has arrived • Trove user engagement: • 116 million lines of newspaper text corrected by digital volunteers • 2.5 million tags added by users • 200,000 images added by users • 50,000 user lists created • Social media success • Partnership with users all over Australia

  12. Our process • Working group of the finest minds in the building: old hands and new thinkers • Determined to develop a master plan for our users’ experience – even if it takes us years to get there • Mapping systems, workflows and data flows

  13. Visit us nla.gov.au and trove.nla.gov.au

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