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:
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
