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

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

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:

• Matapihi http://www.matapihi.org.nz
• findNZarticles http://findnzarticles.natlib.govt.nz
• PublicationsNZ http://publicationsnz.natlib.govt.nz
• Discover http://discover.natlib.govt.nz
• Timeframes http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz

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.

The Heritage and Digital Library Management page on the National Library Website provides links to tools, such as:

• Web Curator Tool
• Metadata Extraction Tool
• Preservation metadata XML schema
• Technical & Metadata standards – NDF website

And advice on subjects including

• Digitisation basics
• Metadata basics
• Preservation advice
• Copying items safely
• DigitalNZ for digitisation guides and a Q and A forum

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’.

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!

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

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