National Library Discovery Services

New Developments in National Library Discovery services to support education and research
by Tony Boston, Assistant Director-General, Resource Sharing, National Library of Australia.
Presented by Alia-Arcom and Libraries Australia SA

This talk was about some exciting developments of National Library databases including the addition of meta-data from Libraries Australia to Google books allowing searches to include results from Libraries Australia. This feature may be expanded to include commercial journal databases allowing meta-data and holdings information to be searched and displayed from Google. We also looked at how the other national library databases are increasing their contemporary and in-copyright content. Music Australia now allows users to hear 30 second samples of in-copyright music and Picture Australia in conjunction with Flickr allows users to post images of Australia. Upcoming projects for Libraries Australia include a biographical database of important Australians and a consolidated search interface for the independent databases.
Power point presentation (11MB)