CSIRO Library Services Carol Murray, Manager, CSIRO Library Collection

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CSIRO Library ServicesCarol Murray, Manager,
CSIRO Library Collection
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Todays presentation

• Background on CSIRO research
• CSIRO IMT Library Services
• Document Delivery at CSIRO

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Who we are

• Established in 1926, CSIRO is Australias premier
  science organisation
• CSIRO carries out research and development of
  social and environmental importance in the
  following areas
• Agriculture
• Environment
• Information and communication technologies
• Health
• Advanced materials and manufacturing
• Minerals and energy
• Transport and infrastructure

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CSIRO research

• Initiated by CSIRO in 2003, the National Research
  Flagships program is one of the largest
  scientific research endeavours ever undertaken in
  Australia, with the total investment to 2010-11
  expected to be close to A1.5 billion
• National Research Flagships are large-scale
  multidisciplinary research partnerships that
  harness world-class expertise to tackle national
  priorities such as water, energy, climate,
  health, oceans, minerals, and manufacturing
• CSIROs 17 Divisions are the business units of
  CSIRO which conduct research across the
  Agribusiness, Information, Manufacturing and
  Minerals, and Sustainable Energy and Environment
  sectors

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Some facts

• Worldwide, CSIRO ranks in the top one per cent of
  scientific institutions in 12 of 22 research
  fields
• More than 90 spin-off companies use CSIRO
  generated intellectual property and expertise
• CSIRO is Australias leading patenting
  enterprise, holding over 3,900 granted or pending
  patents
• CSIRO researchers produced nearly 2,000 major
  scientific articles in 2007, and over 8,000
  client reports, plus providing secondments,
  industry workshops, seminars and specialist
  publications
• CSIRO publishes 16 peer reviewed science
  journals, and has a catalogue of over 1,000
  science and popular titles

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Our people

• CSIRO has over 6,500 staff located across 56
  sites throughout Australia and overseas
• There are 39 CSIRO library locations around
  Australia, which function as one library
  collection
• The CSIRO Library Collection is Australiasde
  facto national science collection,comprising
  over 43 kilometresof print materials and world
  rankingelectronic resources

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Site locations
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Snapshot of CSIRO libraries

• 1926 First library established in East
  Melbourne
• 1973 65 libraries around Australia and 170
  library staff. A Central Library in Melbourne,
  with autonomous divisional libraries
• 1984 80 libraries and 180 library staff
• 2005 50 libraries. Decentralised services with
  central coordination
• 2006 CSIRO Information Management Technology
  formed
• 2008 39 library locations, with 75 staff

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CSIRO library resources

• 1926
• 200 serials
• 1973
• 1 million volumes
• 12 monographs
• 27,000 serial titles
• 6,000 subscriptions (A250k)
• Average duplication factor of 2
• 80 subscriptions to Nature

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CSIRO library resources

• 1984
• 1.5 million volumes
• A3M resource budget
• 1993
• 12,000 subscriptions
• A5M expenditure on scientific serials
• Largest spender on printed scientific
• information in Australia

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CSIRO library resources

• Today
• A8.5M acquisitions budget
• 4,000 print subscriptions
• Organisational wide wide access to over 8,000
  electronic journal titles from publishers such
  as
• Blackwell
• Cambridge University Press
• Elsevier
• Oxford University Press
• Springer
• Taylor Francis
• Wiley

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CSIRO Information Management Technology

• CSIRO Information Management Technology
  established July 2006
• The new structure brings together IT, Records and
  Library Services under a single enterprise
  function
• Director, Information Services and Property
• Senior Manager, Information Services
• Manager, Information Specialists
• Manager, Information Support
• Manager, Library Collection

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CSIRO libraries today

• 5 Major Library Centres
• Clayton (Vic/Tas)
• Black Mountain (ACT/NT)
• Queensland Biosciences Precinct (Qld)
• Floreat (WA/SA)
• Riverside (NSW)
• 30 Information Service Points
• Stores
• Black Mountain
• Clayton

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Black Mountain Major Library Centre
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Black Mountain Major Library Centre
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Black Mountain Library Store
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CSIRO Document Delivery Service

• Single service which provides Document
  Delivery/Inter-library Loans across the
  organisation, and externally
• 20,000 requests per annum from internal clients
• 10,000 requests per year from external libraries
• Single contact point
• CSIRO Information Management Technology
• Document Delivery Service
• Private Bag 89
• CLAYTON STH VIC 3169
• Telephone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email docdel_at_csiro.au

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Libraries Australia

• The NBD includes the majority of CSIRO library
  holdings
• CSIRO can supply articles from electronic
  journals to not-for-profit Australian libraries
• Libraries Australia lists CSIRO holdings under
  the name of the individual CSIRO library
• However all CSIRO locations now map to VSCL
  (CSIROs Document Delivery Service) on the LADD
  Rota
• CSIRO Library Catalogue
• http//voyager.its.csiro.au

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CSIRO E-journal holdings on Libraries Australia
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CSIRO Library holdings on Libraries Australia
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CSIRO Library holdings on LADD
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For further information
Contact CSIRO Document Delivery
Service Phone [phone] Fax [phone]
8752 Email docdel_at_csiro.au Web http//www.csiro.
au