VALA2012 Session 2 Dellit

VALA2012 Session 2 Dellit

Trove: the terrors and triumphs of service-based social media

VALA2012 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: Discovery
Tuesday 7 February 2012, 10:50 – 11:20
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-2-dellit

Alison Dellit and Sarah Schindeler

National Library of Australia, ACT

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Tuesday, February 07, 2012, 10:50 AM AUSEDT, 26 Minutes 2 Seconds

Abstract

The National Library of Australia has actively used a range of social media tools for the promotion, development and delivery of services for a number of years. In addition to whole-of-library branded activity that is managed centrally, teams elsewhere in the Library are creating niche and service-based social media channels. Using the 2011 trial of the Trove social media rollout as a case study, this paper examines the rewards and challenges associated with niche or specialised social media engagement, as well as the broader, potential implications for online engagement by cultural institutions.

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VALA2008 Session 12 Dellit

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperCollecting the best data: improving cataloguing systems

VALA 2008 CONCURRENT SESSION 12: ILMS
Thursday 7 February 2008 11:55 – 12:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2008-proceedings/vala2008-session-12-dellit

Alison Dellit

Metadata Librarian, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

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Abstract

As libraries come to grips with enormous changes in information-seeking behaviour, many institutions are seeking to build “new generation” catalogues, which make resource discovery simple and fun. To fully take advantage of these changes, libraries also need to re-think what data we should be recording about our collections; and how we are recording it. The National Library of Australia is developing a new tool to streamline the process of selecting a correct subject heading. In the future, an even more radical approach to subject analysis and classification may be required to efficiently catalogue the increasing amount of born-digital information.