Professional Reading Shelf
Libraries–Australia
Source: NLA
Australia’s largest online library opens for business
From the news release, “Libraries Australia, developed by the National Library of Australia, is an e-ticket to a world of information consisting of books, journals, newspapers, theses, pictures, music, manuscripts, maps and much more. Many online resources such as digitised images and full text government publications can also be accessed immediately online…Jan Fullerton AO, National Library Director-General, says that Libraries Australia changes the dynamics of the way people use libraries. ‘Libraries have continually been at the forefront of technology to improve the way people find the information they need. The beauty of Libraries Australia is that it uses a very simple search mechanism to find the item the person requires. Once found, the item can be borrowed, copied or purchased. All this can be done from home or work in regional centres or major cities. It puts the individual looking for the information in charge of their search, rather than a librarian. This saves time and is empowering for the information seeker.” Federated search on a national level. Direct to Libraries Australia
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Interlibrary Loan–Australia
Interlibrary Loan–New Zealand
Source: National Library of New Zealand
National Library Launches Trans Tasman Interloan Gateway
“The launch of Trans Tasman Interlending on 1 March is the result of a long-term collaboration between the national libraries of New Zealand and Australia. Trans Tasman Interlending gives people on both sides of the Tasman access to the resources of nearly 900 libraries in New Zealand and Australia.”
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Library Databases–Errors
Source: Terry Ballard, Automation Librarian, Quinnipiac University (et. al.)
Typographical Errors in Library Databases
“This list started as a byproduct of a keyword inspection of the online catalog of Adelphi University in 1991. That study was inspired by a cataloger at Harvard named Jeffrey Beall, who found errors in the Library of Congress catalog, and reported on a list of test words in the journal American Libraries. Early in the process I found that words appearing more than once in the Adelphi catalog were almost always found in other OPACs of similar size or larger.”
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Scholarly Publishing
Source: ARL
The State of the Large Publisher Bundle: Findings from an ARL Member Survey
By Karla Hahn, Director, ARL Office of Scholarly Communication.

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