Reference Library now in EMu

As I write this post, over 5000 records for our Research Library Collection are being imported into the Bibliography Module of EMu...at last!

Our books have recently been catalogued in Libraries Australia, the National Library Database. These same records are also displayed to the public via the free online combined libraries portal called TROVE. These records have now been imported into the EMu Bibliography Module to enable the physical location of the books to be tracked - as the Library Books will be divided between the Collection Store and the Research Service in the Ballet Centre.

The EMu Bibliography Module has been designed to support citations and references of any sort of material (websites, maps, aerial photography, catalogues, journals) - and not just the material which we hold a copy of.

Each type of publication has its own tab, so choosing "Book" will activate the Book tab, and choosing "website" will activate a different tab with the necessary fields to reference a website.

It is important to understand that all items held in the Reference Library are all classified with the publication type "Archived Resource / Library Holding".

The information that could be imported into EMu was quite minimal: Title, Author, Call Number, ISBN, Publication and Imprint data. Although the EMu records lack some of the additional details that would make records more easily discoverable (no Subjects or Keywords) this has been overcome by providing a hyperlink to the full TROVE record. You can activate this from any Archived Resource Record by choosing the Tools Menu > Resource > Search Trove. (EMu has been configured to copy the Title field to Trove and search for a match). Trove is still the most appropriate place to search for books unless you know the title or author.

So in summary -

• Trove should be used to browse or search for records if you are not sure what you are looking for


• Everything in our library is treated as an Archived Resource / Library Holding in EMu Bibliography


• All other Types in Bibliography are for referencing externally held material


• Library Holding records contain a direct link to the full Trove record (Tools>Resources)

And as always, I'm happy to show anyone how to use this module

Rowena