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Theses record exchange: developments in the Australian
National Union Catalogue
Roxanne Missingham and Margaret Kennedy, Director, National Library of Australia
• Access to theses in Australia
• Role of the Australian National Bibliographic Database
• Theses in the Database
• Libraries Australia
• Standards and future directions
Access to theses in Australia
• Union list 1959-1988
• National Bibliographic Database 1981 -
Role of the Australian National Bibliographic Database
• Supports cooperative cataloguing, enabling Australian libraries to reduce the costs of their cataloguing by using records created by others;
• supports interlending, allowing Libraries to share resources by borrowing (or receiving copies) of library materials;
• immediate access to online resources;• support for cooperative collection development; and• access to the collections of Australian libraries for
individual researchers, enabling identification of relevant material in Australian libraries and online.
Key statistics 2005: Australian National Bibliographic
Database
• Over 40 million holdings
• Over 14 million bibliographic records
• Over 6.5 million Kinetica searches in 04/05
• Over 230,000 items supplied through the document delivery system in 04/05
ANBD coverage of print theses
Australian National Bibliographic database: coverage of print theses
020,00040,00060,00080,000
100,000120,000140,000160,000180,000
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 (toend
June)
ANBD coverage of electronic theses
Australian National Bibliographic Database: coverage of digital theses
0500
10001500200025003000350040004500
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 (toend
June)
Libraries Australia
Libraries Australia
• Record sharing– Input – via web form and record loading– Output - –
• Enhanced services– Alerts– Personalisation
LA RecordImport
LACataloguing
Client
LibrariesAustralia Web
cataloguing
LA WebHoldings
NBD
Harvest fromWebsite/
server
Convert
Adding Records to the NBD
Standards
• Record descriptions for theses for contribution of records to the ANBD http://www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/download/thesesrev.doc
• Issues for digital theses include 856, 500 notes, enriched data such as abstracts and table of contents