The National Library of Australia has developed an architecture for the management, discovery and delivery of its digital collections, embracing both digitised and born-digital information resources....
Roxanne Missingham, Tony Boston
This paper reports on the redevelopment of the Kinetica which provides Australian libraries with access to the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD), and international resource discovery...
Libraries Australia: Creating a new national resource discovery service [Journal Article] (2009)
Roxanne Missingham, Tony Boston
This paper reports on the development of a new interface for “finding” and “getting” resources from Australian libraries. The National Library of Australia has provided online access to the...
Exposing the deep web to increase acess to library collections [Conference Paper] (2009)
The National Library of Australia is making digital copies of special collection materials available over the Internet. About 100,000 collection items including pictures, maps, sheet music,...
Libraries Australia: Simplifying the Search Experience [Conference Paper] (2009)
Tony Boston, Bemal Rajapatirana, Roxanne Missingham
The National Library of Australia is redeveloping its Kinetica service. A new search service called Libraries Australia was released in late 2004 which aims to simplify the search experience and...
Short report The National Library has embarked on a number of initiatives that use the Open Archives Initiative protocol for metadata harvesting both as a provider of discovery services based on...
Building a Digital Library at the NLA [Conference Speech] (2009)
Today I'm going to be talking about building a digital library at the National Library of Australia. I will talk about the components of the digital library and the functions it supports illustrated...
The National Library of Australia has embarked on a major digitisation program for parts of its collection to build an Internet-accessible digital library. The National Library also maintains a...
Judith Pearce, Warwick Cathro, Tony Boston
In this paper we discuss the role of the OPAC as a hybrid library service and of the catalogue server as a provider element in a hybrid information environment. We identify developments required in...
The National Library of Australia has coordinated a national bibliographic database and resource sharing service for Australian libraries since 1981. Over the last two years, this service has been...
The development of new search technologies, and new search behaviours, has opened up new opportunities for libraries to expose their holdings. Our users are more used to searching large aggregations...