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The National Bibliographic Database

Through the efforts of the Australian library community, the National Bibliographic Database (or NBD) has been compiled since 1981 and hosted by the National Library of Australia. This national union catalogue records the collections of over 850 Australian libraries and is accessible via the KiNETICA service (formerly known as ABN, or the Australian Bibliographic Network).

The NBD consists of bibliographic records from several sources: national cataloguing agency records from Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States; original cataloguing contributed online and offline by Australian libraries; retrospective catalogue files from KiNETICA users; original cataloguing contributed to the New Zealand Bibliographic Network by its members; and projects undertaken by the union cataloguing agencies to add their files to the NBD. These bibliographic records are supplemented by location information supplied by Australian libraries. It is these records which are the source of data for the union catalogues published by the National Library.

In addition to providing data for published union catalogues, online access to the NBD plays a major part in Australian interlibrary loan activities. It is the most widely available online source of location information for interlibrary loan items, with over 750 libraries contributing their holdings information to it, and over 1,500 libraries accessing it for information. In June 2004, the database contained information about the location of 37 million books, journal titles and other items held in Australian library collections.

Australian libraries can reveal the extent to which they contribute information about their collections to the NBD from within their Australian Libraries Gateway (ALG) entries. Use the 'Advanced search' option to quickly discover those libraries who contribute to the NBD or a summary of the percentage of collections recorded on the NBD from a national survey is available.

It is possible to use the NBD to discover the existence of a particular item (through a search by subject, author or other terms) and to determine which libraries have holdings. The NBD is searchable on a fee-for-service basis and can currently be searched through a library's Kinetica account. The National Library is investigating methods of providing access to academics, students and the general public through the KiNETICA Web interface.

By providing location information online about impending purchases, the NBD assists libraries with their co-operative acquisition and cancellation programs. It is particularly valuable in the field of serials cancellation, where holdings can be checked to establish whether a potential cancellation is the last subscription in the region, state or country. Intention to cancel can also be notified on the NBD.

NB* ALG also includes information about uncatalogued Australian library collections.

The Kinetica CJK Service provides the NBD with records for Chinese, Japanese and Korean script materials - books, journals and other library materials.

Last modified: July 28 2004.