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You can learn from the National Library’s Web 2 adventures

December 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment

At the 2009 LIANZA conference staff from the National Library’s Customer Engagement Team took to the stage to share the story of our voyage into the deep dark world of social media.

The key thing we’ve learnt from more than two years of blogging, Flickring and tweeting is that before we launch a new social media presence, we need to ask ourselves:

  • Why do we want to do this?
  • What are we offering?
  • Who is this for?
  • Who will be running this?

Slides for the talk are available on Slideshare

Notes from the talk have been posted on the LibraryTechNZ blog.

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You can access updated cataloguing standards

November 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment

New and updated standards for cataloguing to the National Union Catalogue are completely up-to-date. They reflect the latest developments in international cataloguing standards and best practice. In addition they also include the requirements for OCLC Cataloguing and the OSMOSIS Service.

Whether you use the National Union Catalogue services, OCLC services for WorldCat or your own library catalogue, they will help your library create good catalogue records.

You can find the updated standards on the National Library website http://www.natlib.govt.nz/catalogues/library-documents/cataloguing-standards and on the new wiki for New Zealand cataloguers at http://nznuc-cataloguing.pbworks.com

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You can join the New Zealand cataloguers wiki

November 9, 2009 · 2 Comments

A new wiki has been developed especially for New Zealand cataloguers and it already contains a wealth of information:

  • About the National Union Catalogue
  • OCLC services available to Te Puna Libraries
  • The OSMOSIS Service provided by the National Library
  • New and updated catalogue standards for the National Union Catalogue
  • Latest news and events
  • Quality in cataloguing

You can use the wiki as an interactive space to receive updates, comment or ask a question.

Visit the wiki at http://nznuc-cataloguing.pbworks.com

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You can keep up to date with changes to National Library websites

November 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Our customers have asked us to make it easier to search across all our collections in one place. Our first step towards achieving this was the launch of the Find website, a single place to search across multiple National Library websites and catalogues, in July 2009.

Go to Find

During 2009/2010 we are making a series of changes to bring a number of our websites closer together in Find. These changes will include merging some existing websites completely into Find.

Websites changing in 2009 are:

You can keep update with changes by visiting the Website & online services changes page on the National Library website.

And you can read about how we’re handling URL redirects in the LibraryTechNZ blog.

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You can take part in OCLC web seminars

October 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment

OCLC and the National Library are sponsoring a series of Web Seminars (webinars) for Connexion and Cataloguing, FirstSearch and Reference.

A schedule and registration information is available on the NZNUC cataloguing wiki – go to the homepage http://nznuc-cataloguing.pbworks.com/FrontPage and look under ‘Latest News’.

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You can get help with your digitisation questions

October 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Visit http://makeit.digitalnz.org/askaquestion to ask your question.

Or, if you’re a digitisation whizz, go to the site and start answering other people’s questions!

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You can put links to National Library resources on your websites

October 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Find, a new discovery tool encompassing multiple catalogues, digital collections, and other websites http://find.natlib.govt.nz
The New Zealand Libraries’ Catalogue is an amalgamation of the online catalogues of libraries all over the country http://nzlc.natlib.govt.nz
Papers Past digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals which covers the years 1839 to 1932 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Manuscripts & Pictorial a digitised collections from the Alexander Turnbull Library, including 100,000 pages from the papers of Sir Donald McLean and more than 70,000 New Zealand and Pacific images http://mp.natlib.govt.nz
Index New Zealand an index of more than 430 ‘current’ journals, updated daily including general interest material, social research, current affairs, the arts and humanities http://innz.natlib.govt.nz
For more resources your customers might find useful go to http://www.natlib.govt.nz/researchers

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You can use key words to search the Directory of NZ Libraries

October 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The easiest way to find a library on the Directory of NZ Libraries is to enter its library symbol in the search box.

If you do not know the library symbol, enter a word from the library name in the search box. Note that the default Boolean operator is currently OR, therefore it is best to enter only one word. Yu can also restrict your search to public libraries if this is relevant.

Examples of searches:

  • Christchurch – this will retrieve all Christchurch libraries
  • Christchurch [and tick the 'Public Libraries' box] – will retrieve Christchurch City Libraries

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You can use library symbols to search the Directory of NZ Libraries

October 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The easiest way to find a library on the Directory of NZ Libraries is to enter its library symbol in the search box, e.g. CP (for Christchurch City Libraries)
You can enter more than one symbol, e.g. CP CU CM (to retrieve Christchurch City Libraries,  Canterbury University, & Canterbury Medical Library)
If you do not know the library symbol, enter a word from the library name in the search box. Note that the default Boolean operator is currently OR, therefore it is best to enter only one word. You can also restrict your search to public libraries if this is relevant.

Examples of searches:

  • Christchurch – this will retrieve all Christchurch libraries
  • Christchurch [and tick the 'Public Libraries' box] – will retrieve Christchurch City Libraries

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