Current Awareness Services

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PARLIAMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Library
The Library delivers all its catalogue and
reference databases to all users desktops from
the Parliamentary Intranet. All internal and
external databases are delivered from a single
point so users do not have to remember where to
find different resources. The Library creates and
maintains a number of digitised collections,
these include a Newspaper Clippings collection,
and Electorate Profile Collection and a
collection of e-journals.
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The Library maintains a strong presence on the
Parliament House Intranet. The majority of our
electronic services are delivered from this page
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Users can search the newspaper clippings
collection using either keywords or author/title
or subject headings
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A brief listing of results is displayed. Users
can access the clipping from here or they can
look at the complete catalogue record.
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Images of the articles are delivered to the
users desktop
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The Librarys digital collections are available
for browsing online
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The Electorate profiles contain demographic and
voting information on each electorate
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The Library maintains a gateway to information
published in a variety of different formats such
as cd-rom, web based and commercial
databases
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ELECTRONIC CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICES
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Each month our users are sent an email that
advises them that their newspaper clippings
bulletin has been updated and gives them the URL.
The subject coverage for the bulletins are
individually tailored for users, and the
bulletins are then generated automatically by the
Library ILMS software
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The Bulletin page is a list of citations with a
link to the image of the article
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The Library maintains a number of different web
pages devoted to current information
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Users are sent an email notice to alert them to
the updated Current Information Service pages
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New books bulletins are generated automatically
by the Library software and updated each night
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An Internet page with links to web sites dealing
with topics of interest is maintained on the
Parliament web site by Library staff
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Automated searches on the newspaper clippings
collection are generated on pre-defined topics
and updated several times a day
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Users are alerted to breaking news stories by
email. These emails are created from articles
appearing on breaking news web sites of the major
media publications in NSW
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Media Monitoring Unit
The Librarys Media Monitoring Unit monitors the
electronic media and we use web pages to deliver
both transcripts and audio files of radio news
broadcasts and transcripts from the television
news broadcasts. Audio files are digitised and
individual requests for copies are delivered by
email.
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