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Libraries Australia is a modern Internet-based service for Australians. It provides access to the national database of material held in Australian libraries, known as the Australian National Bibliographic Database. You can search for any item and locate which library in Australia holds it. Gateways to other major library databases are also provided. It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
In addition, Libraries Australia supports cooperation and resource sharing within the Australian library community through the delivery of MARC records and the provision of a document delivery service. There is also an incentive scheme which offers a search rebate if your library contributes records and/or holdings to the Australian National Bibliographic Database.
Libraries Australia replaced an earlier system, Kinetica, on 30 November 2005. The Kinetica system in turn replaced the Australian Bibliographic Network (ABN), which was created in 1981 to foster resource sharing by Australian libraries. ABN included the National Bibliographic Database and an online interlibrary loan system. Launched in March 1999, Kinetica extended the ABN's services to include a wider range of databases.
If you have any questions please contact us. A web accessible archive is available for messages that have been posted to the Libraries Australia discussion list and for those that were posted to the Kinetica discussion list .
Libraries Australia Search
The Libraries Australia Search Service is one way to search for records in the Australian National Bibliographic Database. It provides access to the database and allows the addition of holdings onto the ANBD as well as the ability to add simple bibliographic records via Web Input.
There is also a free version of this service. . It has a simple search interface which provides a gateway to resources in Australian Library Collections, and the digital collections represented in PictureAustralia.
Libraries Australia Administration
Libraries Australia Administration stores and manages all account details and permissions. Customers can access, maintain and create their own accounts, view charges, print reports as well as access the Record Export Service and Products.
Libraries Australia Cataloguing
Libraries Australia offers a range of flexible cataloguing options for Australian libraries. Libraries Australia can be used to add information about collections to the Australian National Bibliographic Database and to obtain records for local catalogues. Records and location information can be added online using special software (the Libraries Australia Cataloguing client software), through a web form or by sending batches of records to Libraries Australia for addition electronically. Libraries can also use Libraries Australia to obtain bibliographic records from all Libraries Australia databases.
Libraries Australia Document Delivery
Libraries Australia Document Delivery is an Internet-based system for interlibrary lending and document delivery. Libraries search the Australian National Bibliographic Database to find material and then order it electronically. Libraries can also request publications not listed on the Australian National Bibliographic Database through Libraries Australia. The Libraries Australia Document Delivery Payments System provides an efficient means of managing payment for documents and loans between Australian libraries.
Libraries Australia Advisory Committee
The Libraries Australia Advisory Committee provides advice on strategic and policy issues affecting the delivery of the Libraries Australia service, the broad direction of service development, and changes occurring in the library community which are likely to affect services. The National Library will give considerable importance to the views of the Libraries Australia Advisory Committee.
As well as three people elected by and from the entire library membership of the Libraries Australia service, the Committee is made up of members from the key stakeholder groups below:
- Two National Library staff, nominated by the Director-General
- One person working in special libraries, nominated by the Director-General
- Two people nominated by the Council of Australian University Librarians
- One person nominated by the Council of Australian State Libraries, to represent the State and Territory libraries
- One person working in and representing local public libraries, nominated by the Director-General
- One person working in and representing government special libraries, nominated by the Director-General
The current membership of the Committee and the papers of the Libraries Australia Advisory Committee are both available.
Expert Advisory Groups
Standards on the various services provided by Libraries Australia will be maintained through Expert Advisory Groups. The role of these groups is to provide advice to the Libraries Australia Advisory Committee on a specific topic as needed. There is currently one Group:
EAGs have previously provided advice on: