Union catalogues reveal information about the collections of more than one library. They are a way for groups of libraries to share information about their collections in a consistent way, both for cataloguing and inter-library loan purposes.
Australia's National Bibliographic Database (NBD) is a national union catalogue of the catalogued holdings of the participating Australian libraries, maintained by the National Library of Australia. The NBD is accessible through the KiNETICA service, and it comprises catalogue records created by Australian libraries, records from other national bibliographic agencies (internationally), as well as information indicating the holdings of these items by Australian libraries. Libraries, other organisations and individuals may register to use KiNETICA. KiNETICA customers may elect to pay a subscription or a fee based on the number of searches they undertake.
To increase resource sharing, a number of libraries cooperate to develop other regional or consortia catalogues. For example:
| Kinetica CJK Service |
The Kinetica CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) Service aims to support Australia's closer relationship with Asia by providing Australian libraries and their clients with improved access to the distributed national collection of Chinese, Japanese and Korean materials. |
| Australian University Museums Online (AUMOL) |
The AUMOL database is a union catalogue listing the research collection holdings of museums in Australian universities. Currently, holdings from four universities can be searched on the AUMOL database. |
| COOL-CAT |
Cooperative Action by Victorian Academic Libraries (CAVAL)'s Operated On-Line CATalogue, a combined catalogue of Victorian academic, research and special libraries, including the State Library of Victoria. |
| CSIRO Library Catalogue |
Combined catalogue of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Library Network. |
| LibLink |
Victorian libraries on the Web - union catalogue of a group of Victorian public libraries and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. |
| LOTE Holdings Database (pilot project) |
Selection of transcriptions and translations of basic catalogue data of fiction and non-fiction books, CDs, audio tapes and videos for a number of different community languages from Victorian public libraries with holdings in languages other than English (LOTE). |
| MurrayLink |
MurrayLink is a cooperative venture which enables the searching of the library catalogue of each, or all of the six participating Victorian public libraries. |
| National Teaching & Learning Database (NTLD) |
The NTLD is the national on-line catalogue system providing information about and access to on-line educational courseware content resources- 'learning objects' - for Australian post-secondary education. |
| Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts (RAAM) |
Records describing non-government archives held in Australian archival repositories and libraries. In some cases it also includes some information about the contributing repositories and libraries and additional information about most of the repositories represented in RAAM is available in the Directory of Archives in Australia. |
| SCIS: Schools Catalogue Information Service |
The Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) is a cataloguing database of over 820,000 bibliographic records for educational resources in school libraries. It is unique in its extensive coverage of school learning resources. Over 8,500 schools have access to the data via subscription to SCISWeb. Regular evaluation and coordination of catalogue standards ensure that the database is responsive to the curriculum needs of schools. |
| WEBCAT |
The UNILINC libraries shared system catalogue - member libraries are from the higher education sector and a variety of specialised organisations. |
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