What's News November 16 2000 Immigration Checks Sleuthing made easy News from the Australian library sector Immigration Checks It will hardly come as a surprise to those of you who have been following the development of the new ILRS Directory that the library details (name, address, etc) from ALG will be used to populate the library details' area of the new ILRS Directory. What may be surprising, however, is the work effort undertaken in preparing to migrate the data by the ALG administration staff. Here, behind the scenes, staff members have been feverishly cross checking entries between the two directories. All this activity has revealed that, in some instances, the two databases are out of step one with the other. We need your assistance in solving the discrepancies. The area of concern is the preferred name of your library. The vast majority of libraries is entered under the same name in both ALG and the current ILRS directory, but some, unfortunately, are not. As the Gateway entries are self-updatable, we are assuming that these names are more up-to-date than the ILRS ones. We would appreciate it if all of you who have entries in both ALG and the current ILRS would check those entries for accuracy. If your name in ALG is the name you wish to use, you have nothing more to do: we will migrate the name as it is. If your name in the ILRS directory is preferable, or if neither name is correct, please update your ALG entry to reflect the preferred name. If you do not have the facility to amend your entry on-line, please send an e-mail to the ALG administration team containing the correct name and we will update it for you. Migration is imminent and your prompt co-operation would be invaluable. Sleuthing made easy Is that much wanted title eluding you? Have you looked everywhere with little else than a pair of well worn shoes to show for your effort? Well, then, you should probably have started with the Gateway's highly comprehensive list of commercial and boutique Australian publishers and booksellers . Here you will find names as familiar as Penguin Books Australia and the infinitely smaller, niche-oriented Bandicoot Books. Not content with just giving you lists of publishers, the Gateway staff has also provided other tools for the bibliophile and book detective. For example, there are lists of publishers from every corner of the globe, Australian associations, and guides to some of the services available to, and the responsibilities of, Australian publishers, such as legal deposit in Australia, to name just a few. Whether you are hunting down a title here or abroad or wanting to enter the giddying world of publishing, the ALG page is definitely a good place to start. What was news - 2000s | 1990s ... Find a Library | Pathways to Information | For Libraries | Help | Online Exhibitions | About this Site | Feedback | What's News | Site search | Contact: alg@nla.gov.au Last updated: 15 November 2000