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