Highlights from the Kinetica Advisory Committee

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Highlights from the Kinetica Advisory Committee
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• Year in review
• Kinetica Advisory Committee
• Craig Anderson

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Authority Survey

• Carried out 2002/2003
• Authority work being done but not on Kinetica
• Most headings created by a few libraries
• Return to the LASH needed

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Pricing Working Group

• Agreed principles
• Examined alternative finding models
• Revised fee structure
• Single discount

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Elias/Libricore

• Kinetica software now owned by new group

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Kinetica Future

• Kinetica defines the national bibliographic
  output. Its prime source of value is the
  provision of high quality catalogue records.
• In the light of the sustained trend towards
  decentralised, local cataloguing, then uploading,
  Kinetica's shared cataloguing capability needs to
  be re-valued. Given fast batch update
  capability, full cataloguing functionality may no
  longer be required.

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Kinetica Future

• Special libraries are more interested in using
  Kinetica as a resource discovery tool. Batch
  loading procedures are important, but there is
  little demand for an online cataloguing facility.
• Interlending and resource sharing are high
  priorities. Reduced acquisition budgets have
  increased interlending.
• End user access is becoming increasingly
  important, as are simplifying the processes of
  resource discovery and delivery, authentication
  and payment.

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Kinetica Future

• It was felt the trend towards end user access
  could be accelerated through the provision of
  'Kinetica lite' - a public face (or Google) for
  the NBD, with an easy entry to the document
  delivery system. The Workshop considered the
  NLA's Public Library Portal a promising step in
  this direction.
• The Workshop endorsed and encouraged the role of
  the NBD in providing access to electronic
  resources, especially the ability to respond to
  different needs and demands.

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Kinetica Future

• Kinetica should broaden its coverage and increase
  the number of participating libraries by
  collecting records by library sector/group
• The KAC endorsed the continuation of NLA
  initiatives to proactively target small and
  special libraries with collections and subject
  areas that are currently poorly represented on
  the NBD.