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About this capture

COLLECTED BY

Organization: Internet Archive

The Internet Archive discovers and captures web pages through many different web crawls. At any given time several distinct crawls are running, some for months, and some every day or longer. View the web archive through the Wayback Machine.

Collection: Around The World Crawl

Data crawled by Sloan Foundation on behalf of Internet Archive

TIMESTAMPS

Find a Library	About ALG	Pathways to Australian Information
For Libraries	Online Exhibitions	Contact ALG

How library details are displayed

When you search for a library on the Gateway, results may be presented in two formats:

• Summary details display (including sort order)
• Full directory details of a library

Summary details display

The results of any ALG search will be presented in a table with a summary of your search statement together, the number of libraries found to match your query and the date of the search.

If only one library is found to match your query, the full directory details for that library will be displayed.

For a search which finds more than one library, the following the details will be provided (in a table) for each:

• the name of the library's parent organisation;
• the name of the library;
• location (ie the state/territory or "off-shore"); and
• a link to the full directory details of a library via the a red 'More Details' icon.

If a library has reported the URL of it's Web page (or that of it's parent organisation), hyperlinks will be provided from the name/s in the summary results table. Likewise, if a library has a Web-accessible or telnet catalogue, a direct link will be provided to each within the summary results - look for the red 'Web Catalogue' and 'Telnet Catalogue' icons in the table:

Parent organisation	Library	Location	Details	Web catalogue	Telnet catalogue
Organisation XYZ	Library XYZ	state/territory overseas

Display Tip

• Instructions for login and use of a library's telnet catalogue are available via the 'More Details' link.
• Found a hyperlink which fails? Advise the library (follow the 'More Details' link to find a contact phone, fax or email address) so that they can update their entry on the Gateway.

The summary details display is only varied within the subject searches, where the first left column lists collecting level (refer to our definitions).

Collecting level	Parent organisation	Library	Location	Details
Level - see definitions	Organisation XYZ	Library XYZ	state/territory overseas

The results of a 'Map search' will appear with a map as you progress. For example, a search of 'NSW' from the map of Australia will return the summary details display together with a map of New South Wales, from here, the results of a search on the 'Sydney' region will appear with a map of the Sydney metropolitan region.

Sort order

Where more than one library is retrieved from a search, the summary results are sorted and displayed alphabetically by parent organisation name. The secondary alphabetic sort element is library name and thirdly, the location of the library (ie Australian Capital Territory ('ACT'), New South Wales ('NSW'), Northern Territory ('NT'), Queensland ('QLD'), South Australia ('SA'), Tasmania ('TAS'), Victoria ('VIC'), Western Australia ('WA') or 'Overseas'). Libraries located "overseas" will always be presented after those in Western Australia.

The following filing rules also apply:

• Libraries that have more than one parent will be listed alphabetically under each parent name.
• Organisations with names that start with a numeric value (for example 3M) will be displayed ahead of the alphabetic sequence.
• Names in capital letters will appear before those in lower case (for example, CSIRO will appear before CSL, CRS and Caboolture etc.).

The results of subject searches on the Gateway, however, are presented in ranked order by descending level of reported collecting level (definitions of these collecting levels are available):

• Research
• Study - Advanced
• Study - Intermediate
• Study - Basic
• Advanced basic
• Basic
• Minimal
• Nothing in this category
• No details provided

The secondary sort element for subject-based searching is the parent organisation's name (arranged alphabetically) and thirdly, the library's official name.

Full directory details of a library

Every library in the Gateway has a full directory entry. Where your search found only one matching library, you will automatically get the full directory details display.
The red 'More Details' button in the summary search results will take you to the full directory details of a library in the Gateway.

A library may include the following information about itself within ALG (see 'How to update your library's details' for more information about where to find the fields for data input):

• parent organisation name and URL;
• library name, logo and URL;
• National Union Catalogue (NUC) symbol (NUCs are the keys to Australian InterLibrary Resource Sharing (ILRS) Directory and inter-library lending in Australia);
• abreviations, former and other names/terms;
• library type/s (a library may be assigned one or more of the following available types: Agricultural, Art, Audio-visual, Corporate/Business, Cultural organisation, Defence/Military, Government, Health/Medical, Joint use, Law, Local/Family history, Mobile, Music, National/State/Territory, Parliamentary, Public, Religious, School (K-12), Science/Technology, Special, TAFE/College, University and Toy);
• street and postal address, including a link to any online map showing the street location;
• email address;
• telephone (including telephone typewriter (TTY), mobile and toll-free 1800 phone numbers), facsimile and DX numbers;
• the library's Australian Business Number (ABN);
• links to the main, branch and/or other related libraries within ALG;
• URL of Web catalogue;
• URL of telnet catalogue as well as any login instructions;
• instructions for dial-up catalogue access;
• URL of frequently asked questions (FAQs) or a 'Read me' about the library's catalogue/s;
• automated library system in use;
• classification scheme in use (eg Dewey Decimal Classification);
• other access aids for the collection (eg microfiche, local online system, indexes and guidebooks etc.);
• library subject collecting levels (refer to the definitions of these collecting levels);
• comments on subject collecting areas and highlights of the collection;
• nature and conditions of public access, including opening hours;
• URL of online reference enquiry services;
• URL of online exhibitions;
• URL of 'Friends' organisation;
• URLs of policy documents for collection development, digitisation projects.
• other general comments.

Libraries can also indicate within their ALG entry whether or not they: have entries within the Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts (RAAM); contribute the National Bibliographic Database (NBD) (including the number of records and percentage of library holdings on the NBD); or participate in the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Library Extension Program (LEP).

Last modified: August 17 2006.