Alia national 2014 Trove at 5: are we there yet
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Today I want to ask of Trove - 5 years old this November - Are we there yet? 
Who is we? And where is there? In this audience - of Australian librarians - we is 'you', we is 'us'. It is you that for decades have shared a river of bibliographic metadata to Libraries Australia and its predecessors, a river that flows effortlessly through to Trove so that our national collection can be discovered by all - including those who don't yet know that they need something in one of our libraries. It is NSLA libraries, cooperating for more than 20 years on the Australian Newspapers Plan, seizing the opportunity to unlock the value in carefully held, preserved and microfilmed newspapers, unleashing them on a hungry Australian public. NSLA libraries have funded half of the 13 million + pages of newspaper content currently available through Trove - a massive investment in a funding environment not known for its rivers of gold. It is your libraries, digitising your unique treasures - pictures, maps, archives, sound recordings, rare books, 19th century serials - and making sure that they can be discovered in Trove. It is your local studies collections, your historical societies - you in touch with your local communities - that have lobbied and fundraised to get local newspaper titles digitised and available through Trove. It is librarians at Australian universities who have made sure that Australia's research data sets and research outputs are contributed to Trove, so that the general public can easily find publicly funded research on just about any topic. And of course 'we' is also our community of Trove users. Today I want to tell you something about what we learned about our audience last year, when we conducted the first full and independent evaluation of Trove customer satisfaction, what that has told us about where we are now, and the questions it raises for our next 5 years. 
We were delighted to learn that use of Trove is absolutely in proportion to Australian population distribution - giving us, probably for the first time - truly national reach. This is hugely important to the National Library of Australia - home of Trove. We may be a stone's throw from the heart of Government, but we are not sandwiched between Flinders Street and Southern Cross stations, and we are a long, long way from most Australians. Directory: sites -> default -> files -> publications publications -> Table of Content forward introduction publications -> Theology beacon dictionary of theology publications -> Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless Technologies Georgia Institute of Technology publications -> Housing Counseling Research in Chicago publications -> Communicating with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Audiences publications -> New Brunswick Info Sheet on First Nations Child Welfare publications -> Paap’s Electronic Newsletter 14 November 2008 Volume 11 Number 22 towards ‘smart’ subsidies in agriculture: lessons from recent experience in malawi publications -> Information support of pedagogical process for the children experiencing difficulties with acquisition of preschool educational programs publications -> Asus’ ZenFone ar has Google’s augmentted and virtual reality baked in — but not combined Download 8.7 Mb. Share with your friends:
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