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This paper was presented by Pam Gatenby at the IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2008 which was held at the National Library of Singapore.
Background to newspaper publishing in Australia
The history of newspapers in Australia reflects the history and development of the country, from its colonial origins to its current day membership of the global community. Australia’s history is short compared to most countries so it is not unreasonable for Australian libraries to aim to preserve a comprehensive record of newspaper publishing from the time of white settlement of the country to the current day. Early Australian newspapers are among the few remaining resources that provide contemporary accounts of how the colonies were governed and of key historic events that shaped the nation such as the first encounters with Indigenous Australians, land settlement and the discovery of gold. They reflect the concerns and circumstances of our ancestors and are heavi
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Chinese Acquisitions List contains, in romanised and Chinese scripts, details of the latest books, journals and electronic resources acquired by the National Library. The list is divided into broad subject categories and updated every month.
Arrangement and content of entries
The listing for each month is arranged in broad subjects. All materials listed have been fully catalogued onto the Australian National Bibliographic Database searchable through Libraries Australia, and are available for use, and can be searched on the Library s own online catalogue.
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Corporate Plan 2015-2019: Strategic priority 3
Strategic priority 3: Lead, partner, connect and excel
Aspiration
Actions
Create value for library services and their patrons across all jurisdictions, regions and sectors by managing the research infrastructure that underpins access to the nation’s library collections.
Leverage new provisioning and business model opportunities for Libraries Australia in a cloud-dominated library systems environment.
With National and State Libraries Australasia, investigate the feasibility of shared digital library infrastructure, especially to facilitate a national approach to e-legal deposit and collaborative archiving of government websites.
Extend this value to the gallery, archives, museum and research sectors through sustainable collaboration enhancing access to, use of and engagement with Australia’s cultural and research collections.
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Library catalogues today need to harness the full power of the metadata that librarians have carefully created over previous decades. For those who describe resources the challenge is to create metadata which meets users needs for data content and also facilitates machine manipulation of that data for searching and display. Resource Description and Access (RDA) will be an important building block in the creation of better catalogues and resource discovery systems. RDA is the new standard for description and access set to replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) in 2009.
RDA focuses on the data elements needed to meet the user tasks specified in the FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Records) conceptual models. The use of FRBR concepts will allow the relationships between multiple versions of a resource to be presented to users in a meaningful way.
User guide
The Prepublication Data Service user guide contains information about the benefits of the service, how to apply, and information about the form including a subject guide.
Benefits of the Prepublication Data Service
Instant turnaround. A brief prepublication catalogue record is automatically generated from your application, and will appear in Libraries Australia and Trove, the national discovery service within 48 hours.
Libraries, booksellers and the general public can search Trove and find prepublication records for upcoming titles. This can facilitate the advanced selection and ordering of publications.
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Step 1: Submit an application for the Prepublication Data Service.