Hello All. Have received permission from the original poster below, to cross-post. Hopefully this might help with accessing relevant books. Regards: Ray in Sydney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra Henderson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 11:27 AM Subject: [NSWSE] Libraries Australia information (was SMH microfilm query) >I mentioned Libraries Australia in a recent post and have been asked to > provide more information. > For many years now librarians have been able to search the national > database provided by the National Library of Australia, to discover > which books are held by which library (to put it simply!) > In later February a public version, accessible to all, was made > available. http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au takes you to a search > screen for the new service. > The national database (the Australian National Bibliographic Database) > lists over 40 million books, maps, pictures, microfilm, newspapers and > more, in over 800 Australian libraries. Where the libraries know about > a free online version of an item, you'll be able to click through from > the catalogue record to the item. In other cases there's a list of > libraries which hold the item, and you can click on the library name to > find out more about that library. There are also links to online > bookshops, and to loan and copy services. There is more information > about Libraries Australia at http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/ > and you can read the full press release about the new service at > http://www.nla.gov.au/pressrel/2006/la-launch.html > > The National Library also provides PictureAustralia > (http://www.pictureaustralia.org) which many of you will already know, > and is now harvesting images from the Flickr site, to which anyone can > add images. Go to http://www.pictureaustralia.org/Flickr.html to learn > more about how you can upload images of people, places and events which > can then be selected for PictureAustralia. Since this facility was made > available a few months ago over 2000 images have been loaded by members > of the public, on subjects as diverse as an old tobacco farm at > Myrtleford in Victoria, Australia Day celebrations, a surf carnival at > Cronulla, as well as some scans of old photos of historic interest. > > Sandra Henderson > Manager, Research, > Coordination Support Branch > National Library of Australia > CANBERRA ACT 2600 > ph +61 2 6262 1481 > fax +61 2 6273 2545 > [email protected]