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Dear colleague,
Welcome to Te Puna News, March 2010. Make a date in your diary for OCLC training, help us name our new cataloguer's wiki, find out what our Aussie colleagues are up to and check out the growing interest in the public library consortia.
Need face-to-face OCLC training?
Learn all about the Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC) cataloguing and workflow options at a two-day session in June. Kathy Kie, and a National Library Cataloguer, will also talk about the recently launched cataloguing standards and wiki.
Auckland - June 17/18, University of Auckland
Wellington - June 21/22, National Library (TBC)
Christchurch - June 24/25, South Learning Centre
Dunedin - June 28/29, University of Otago
Day one of the session:
- OCLC update (30 mins)
- NZLibraries cataloguing standards (30 mins)
- OCLC cataloguing options (60 – 90 mins)
- Appointments with individual libraries (30 mins each for your software or workflow questions to Kathy)
Day two of the session:
- Hands-on advanced copy cataloguing using OCLC’s Connexion Client (8.30 – 12.00)
- Hands-on original cataloguing using OCLC’s Connexion Client (1.30 – 5pm)
Need more information? Email Ruth.Miller@natlib.govt.nz
Want to win $100 of book tokens?
Help us name the New Zealand Cataloguers’ wiki and be in to win $100 of book tokens!
The Wiki http://nznuc-cataloguing.pbworks.com/ is a newly launched forum for cataloguers. Use it to discuss ideas, make suggestions and provide guidance on creating records that meet international standards. It has links and articles, and has resources on contributing to the National Union Catalogue and updating holdings through the OSMOSIS batch load service.
A team of four have been appointed to develop and maintain the wiki, and their message is “a wiki is only as successful as its users make it, so we invite you to join in and make it what you want."
NDHA bibliographic records now downloadable
National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) bibliographic records can now be downloaded via Te Puna, complete with links to full digital text.
Where the National Library is able to provide unrestricted access, the link will take users to the to digital item in the NDHA. Not all items with links in their bibliographic record will be unrestricted, but items which are/were freely available on a website and items supplied by publishers with no restrictions will be available to view. Here are some examples of records with links to the digital item in the NDHA:
HOT TIP: You can download these records for your own catalogue. You can also import the complete record to overlay your own, however this will result in any local tags being lost. Alternatively, you can cut and paste the link in marc field 856.
Some of you might already have catalogued items like Government publications where there is now a permanent link to the digital item. To help you apply the permanent link to your existing records, there is a file of 4000 freely available records on the National Library website http://www.natlib.govt.nz/services/specialist-tools/cataloguing
Public library consortia gain popularity
The SouthLib consortium is the latest regional grouping of public libraries to ‘go-live’ with a collaborative and cost cutting library service. The consortium shares a single bibliographic database and has consistent cataloguing standards across all libraries.
Dunedin Public Library was the first to go live in Oct 2009, followed by Invercargill a month later. In April, the Southland District will join and then Queenstown Lakes Central Otago District Libraries will follow in May. The consortium includes:
- Dunedin Public Libraries
- Invercargill City Library
- Southland District Libraries
- Queenstown Lakes Central Otago District Libraries
- Gore District Libraries
- Clutha District Libraries
- Waitaki District Libraries
- Invercargill City Library
Invercargill City Library hosts SirsiDynix Symphony: the chosen library management system. A team of three provides first call system support, two from Dunedin and one from Invercargill. Check out the original announcement from Oct 2009 http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=14305
Photo below: Invercargill City Library systems administrator Nathan O'Byrne checks the Southlib server at the library!
What are the Aussies up to?
The National Library of Australia held a two-day forum in November last year, check it out http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/empowering-users-presentations.html
Notable presentations were those from OCLC’s Jim Michalkco and Roger Foley:
Jim Michalkco http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/aum/laf09/agenda.html suggested that Libraries Australia should do what is not technically or financially viable at the local level including: cataloguing, discovery and delivery. He also talked about how the three basic functions of libraries will change in the near future:
- Customer management (collecting, licensing, marketing, matching, targeting materials and products for library customers) will become a library’s sole focus
- Product innovation will cease at the local level and development will be done by organisations such as google, Amazon, OCLC etc
- Infrastructure will also be outsourced and probably ‘cloud’ enabled – where data currently stored on local servers, will move to national or international repositories.
The University of Tasmania’s Rodney Foley, talked about the ideal library management system, including their search for:
- Cost reductions
- Better management for a diverse range of collections
- Integration with corporate systems
- Better support for new technologies (iphone etc)
- Service customisation, that uses current (underutilised) data collection.
Photo below: Jan Fullerton , Director General, National Library of Australia.
We’ve moved
The Te Puna team recently moved to a new space while the National Library building is being redeveloped. Bibliographic and interloan services are continuing as normal.
If you are planning to visit the Library in person check out the website for the alternative locations http://www.natlib.govt.nz/about-us/building/move
Meet the new-look TPSAC
A new-look Te Puna Strategic Advisory Committee (TPSAC) will meet for the first time in March. Janet Copsey replaces Sue Cooper as Chair.
Meet the members:
Janet Copsey, new Chair, is also Chair of the Kiwi Research Information Service (KRIS) Governance Group and a member of both the OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council and the OCLC Global Council.
Gail Clark, Senior Operations Librarian at Upper Hutt City Library, “As a new member, I am hoping to provide a balanced viewpoint of how Te Puna works in a medium-sized public library."
Christine Cross’s role is to represent SLANZA on TPSAC. “I currently work part-time in a primary school library and part-time at Access-It Software - a library software program used by schools here and overseas.”
Adriana de Groot is currently an Acting University Librarian at Lincoln University. “My collection development and management experience has an access focus, with a strong belief in the value of shared collection information - nau te rourou, naku te rourou, ka ora te manuwhiri (with your food basket and my food basket, everyone will be fed).”
Diane Friis, Library and Learner Services Manager at the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT Hawke's Bay), "I will be the TPSAC representative who will look at issues from the perspective of the smaller academic library.”
Guy Reynolds, Team Leader Information Centre, Department of Corrections. “I’m new to the government, having spent 20 years in academic libraries. I see my role as a link for communication between the National Library and its fellow government libraries and information centres.”
Carolyn Robertson, Libraries and Information Manager in Christchurch, “Te Puna is evolving in an environment of changing technologies. The need to seek new opportunities and deliver relevant, cost effective services is more important than ever.”
Christine Wilson, Associate University Librarian University of Auckland (AU), “I am the LIANZA rep on the committee with special responsibility for Interloans – which is one of my areas of responsibility at AU. AU is the only library in NZ with an independent installation of this software which is the same as that used for Te Puna.Associate."
TPSAC also has three National Library members: Sue Sutherland, Alison Elliott and Jenny McDonald as well as Paula Robinson from Minter Elliston Rudd Watts.
Library delivery in the digital age, an editorial by Jenny McDonald
Did you know only 2% of college students start their information search at a library website according to an OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) report Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources, 2005. Unsurprisingly 89% of those students use a search engine as the primary tool for finding information.
Over 90% of the NZ population between age 12 and 40 use the internet, over 80% of that usage is broadband and 80% see internet as an important source of information. (see *1)
Between the 2000 and the 2003 research reports produced by Berkley (see *2) new information stored on paper grew globally by 36% and new information stored electronically, by 87%.
Libraries, challenged with tightening budgets are looking for the most effective ways to deliver services. For example, leading users to the right content in an increasingly digitally enabled customer base.
Metadata continues to play a key role in bringing the customer to the content in libraries, either on virtual or physical shelves. There have been efficiencies in scale since the 1940’s with the National Union Catalogue that enabled resource- sharing in New Zealand. Those efficiencies were further expanded in 2007 when New Zealand Libraries partnered with OCLC to use WorldCat services.
The first local OCLC Regional Asia Pacific meeting, hosted by Janet Copsey University of Auckland Library, in February this year was a direct result of OCLC governance changes.
At that meeting, Karen Calhoun, Vice President OCLC metadata services and key note speaker at the first local OCLC Regional Council Seminar (see *3) asked "If we were building a system for library cooperation today, what would it look like?" She gave a clear synopsis of the turbulent conditions in which libraries are evolving as both places and virtual spaces on the web. She summarised the drivers for evolving library services as:
- economic conditions impacting on budgets, staffing and space
- organisations re-examining the value of librarianship and libraries.
Within the New Zealand Library and Information profession, there are several examples of successful collaborations and partnerships where efficiencies have been gained. EPIC, eLGAR and Te Puna are just three of the collaborations.
The second keynote speaker at the OCLC meeting, Vic Elliott National University Librarian, Canberra challenged the audience by saying, “ A collaboration is essentially a call to arms for all of the profession to be active in developing and shaping our services.”
A common theme and ‘call to arms’ was to consider ways to effectively leverage local, regional, national and international strengths to develop the best value for local customers. A second theme, to consider how to efficiently deliver New Zealand libraries metadata for ubiquitous discovery via the web.
TPSAC will meet in May to begin discussing - how we get the most out of our Te Puna cataloguing and interloan services as well as our OCLC WorldCat services.
TPSAC members are identified in this newsletter so if you have ideas, please talk them through with your sector representative.
The usual Te Puna Customer Satisfaction survey will be released in April. This will give you an opportunity to provide input into the way you would like Te Puna to grow and develop to meet the challenges of the profession in the digital world.
Jenny McDonald is the National Library's Manager, Customer Engagement.
*1: The ‘Internet in New Zealand, 2009’ report from the World Internet Project.
*2: “How much Information 2003?” http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm#paper
*3: Asia Pacific Council Regional Seminar - February 2010 - On February 5, 2010 the OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council sponsored a seminar at the University of Auckland on behalf of New Zealand members of OCLC. Links to slideshow presentations are available.
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