Just over a year ago our outstanding team of volunteer cataloguers began to contribute records to Libraries Australia so our collection could be more widely accessed and researched. Already 6418 titles have been added. Our aim is to have the whole of our book collection catalogued in the next year.
Trove progressively harvests records from Libraries Australia making our collection fully searchable from their site.
Records in Trove are linked to a National Union Catalogue (NUC) Symbol. NUC Symbols are issued and maintained by the National Library of Australia. Every NUC Symbol is unique and allows Trove to identify the organisation holding the item. A NUC Symbol is added to each incoming record by the Trove harvester. Our NUC symbol is TLMI.
We have now added a Trove search widget to our sidebar so the reader can browse or search our collection. The search parameters have been set up to limit your search to books with our NUC symbol.
If the search box is left blank you will be taken to a complete list of our titles. If a search term is entered the results will include only items held in our collection.
UPDATE August 2020. Regrettably Trove has withdrawn the Search Widget following their 2020 site upgrade. It served us well for three years, but we are no longer able to offer this feature on our blog.
The Trove story - from their site
Trove's origins can be traced back to a project launched by the National Library of Australia in August 2008. Its aim was to build a portal for all of the Library’s online discovery services, including the Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts, Picture Australia, Libraries Australia, Music Australia, Australia Dancing, PANDORA web archive, ARROW Discovery Service and the Australian Newspapers Beta service.
Today Trove is transformed, growing far beyond its original purpose and becoming many things to many people: a community, a set of services, an aggregation of metadata, and a growing repository of full text digital resources. Trove is a platform on which new knowledge is being built. It is a collaboration between the National Library, Australia's State and Territory libraries and hundreds of cultural and research institutions around Australia, working together to create a legacy of Australia’s knowledge for now and into the future.
Visit the Trove site to learn more about this outstanding service.
The Trove story - from their site
Trove's origins can be traced back to a project launched by the National Library of Australia in August 2008. Its aim was to build a portal for all of the Library’s online discovery services, including the Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts, Picture Australia, Libraries Australia, Music Australia, Australia Dancing, PANDORA web archive, ARROW Discovery Service and the Australian Newspapers Beta service.
Today Trove is transformed, growing far beyond its original purpose and becoming many things to many people: a community, a set of services, an aggregation of metadata, and a growing repository of full text digital resources. Trove is a platform on which new knowledge is being built. It is a collaboration between the National Library, Australia's State and Territory libraries and hundreds of cultural and research institutions around Australia, working together to create a legacy of Australia’s knowledge for now and into the future.
Visit the Trove site to learn more about this outstanding service.
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