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.
1 January 2009 - 12:00
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.
Eligibility for the Prepublication Data Service
How to apply
Step 1: Submit an application for the Prepublication Data Service.
4 September 2012 - 12:00
Trove, Australia’s national discovery service, provides access to more than 300 million resources managed by more than 1000 Australian and international organisations, and by members of the public. Trove has been enthusiastically embraced by Australians from all walks of life, and from around the country. More than 50,000 unique visitors search the service every day, and tens of thousands of Australians engage much more actively than by just searching. Trove users correct newspaper text, add content, tags and annotations, and create online lists of Trove resources – all within the Trove community space. Trove has extended the reach of the National Library and Trove contributors far beyond our expectations. But while it is gratifying to bask in public and political acclamation, we must also ask – why is Trove a success? Is Trove as a whole a success, or just some parts of it? And what challenges do the answers to that question pose to libraries’ tradi
The Prepublication Data Service is a free service offered by the National Library of Australia.
This service is for Australian publishers and self-publishing authors who want the details of their upcoming publications made available to Australian libraries, library suppliers, and other members of the book industry for acquisition purposes.
Why should I use the Prepublication Data Service?
Information about your upcoming publication will be made available to libraries and library suppliers around Australia via Libraries Australia and Trove, creating greater exposure for your book, and increasing the potential for book sales.
Am I legally required to use the Prepublication Data Service?