Reference and Libraries Australia Search

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Reference and Libraries Australia Search

• Karen Mackney and David Ong

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How can Libraries Australia Search help you and
readers with reference enquiries?

• Access to hundreds of Australian collections
• Able to find and get items
• Obvious Resource sharing advantages
• Deep links to other library catalogues
• Faster access to readily available items
• Your readers can now use Libraries Australia
• Subscription search available in your library
• Free Libraries Australia searching now available
  anywhere with internet access

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Libraries Australia Subscription Search and
Libraries Australia Free Search
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SUBSCRIPTION vs FREE
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Finding and Getting items

• One search can give access to items in many ways
• Inter Library loan and Document supply
• Links to online resources for full text
  information are more readily available
• Purchase options through online bookshops

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Most importantly of all

• These Libraries Australia Search Features are
• available at no extra cost
• can be customised to suit your libraries
  requirements

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Advantages of using Libraries Australia Search

• Three scenarios
• The typical library user wants the latest by
  their favourite fiction author
• The student at home
• A researcher reviewing a topic

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• The average reader

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• The student at home

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• The researcher

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How has Libraries Australia Search supported the
three library users?

• Ease of Inter Library Loan requesting (Enhanced
  requesting)
• Personalisation and Libraries Australia
  Administration functions enabled the following
• Save search strategies for use in later search
  sessions
• Save useful search strategies and create email
  alerts from these.

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Libraries Australia Search links to Online
Resources with Digital content

• Digital content
• Picture Australia
• Australian Research Repositories Online to the
  World (ARROW)
• Australian Journal Articles (APAIS/APAFT) (With
  subscription access)
• Contributing libraries have provided collections
  of digital images of music, maps, newspapers and
  manuscripts
• And other similar collections

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More about Personalisation

• Create your own personal account
• Choose your own user-id/password
• Save records and queries into a personal folder
• Choose which search screen to display on logging
  in
• Customise default databases for searching
• Choose up to three libraries as your library
• Create Alerts
• Access Enhanced Requesting

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Why offer personalisation?

• Staff and readers can
• have their own Accounts
• have access outside the library
• have access to specified databases
• You can run reports on account use

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Getting Helphttp//www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustra
lia/contactus.html

• Help Desk online form Online enquiry form
• By telephone [phone]
• Keep up to date with enhancements by
• Joining an email list, or attend a State User
  Group meeting to keep up to date
• Ask the help desk for Libraries Australia Service
  manuals or brochures for your staff and readers

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Libraries Australia Search

• What are we doing?
• What can you do?
• What have we done?
• Where are we going?

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What are we doing?

• Interface - end user search and traditional
  Library functions

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What are we doing?

• Continuous refinement

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What can you do?

• Deep Linking - bring the end user to your
  catalogue
• Allow End Users to access Libraries Australia

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Deep Linking
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Deep Linking Search Results
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Deep Linking Get this item
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Deep Linking Local record
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• http//catalogue.nla.gov.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?
  SAB10732200725BOOL1alloftheseFLD1ISBN20(IS
  BN)DBlocalCNT25

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Deep Linking Required Information

• Persistent URL
• Example searches
• ISBN
• ISSN
• Author/Title
• Title
• Inform the Libraries Australia Helpdesk

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Deep linking example searches

• http//www.librarycatalogue.act.gov.au/ipac20/ipac
  .jsp?session11887J9N6E765.8724menusearchaspect
  basic_searchnpp10ipp20spp20profilevlri
  index.AWtermsmithx0y0aspectbasic_search
• http//www.librarycatalogue.act.gov.au/ipac20/ipac
  .jsp?session11887J9N6E765.8724menusearchaspect
  basic_searchnpp10ipp20spp20profilevlri
  index.AWtermjonesx0y0aspectbasic_search

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End User Access to Libraries Australia Search

• Subscription model 2005
• End User/Personalised accounts
• IP Authentication
• Web Search HTML box

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HTML Box
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What have we done?

• Open Search Compliance
• Relevance Ranking

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Open Search Compliance

• What is Open Search?
• Why implement this?

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Open Search Targets
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Relevance ranking

• More relevant results first
• Exact phrase or keyword
• By or About
• Number of Holdings
• Etc

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Where are we going?

• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Library Labs Prototype

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Discussion

• End user vs Library interface?
• Are we satisfying the needs of our users?
• Directions
• Karen Mackney kmackney_at_nla.gov.au
• David Ong dong_at_nla.gov.au