OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council Conference 2012, National Library of Malaysia, 3-4 September 2012.

1. Digging deep in Trove:
success, challenge and uncertainty
Dr Marie-Louise Ayres
National Library of Australia

3. Union catalogue for librarians Research
Australian Bibliographic Network
Australian Research online
1981
2005
Web archives
Pandora
Newspapers
Manuscripts 1997
Australian Newspapers
Register of Australian
Archives and Manuscripts 2007
1997
Union catalogue for
public
Pictures
2009 Libraries Australia
Picture Australia
2006
2000
Dance Music
Australia Dancing Music Australia
2003 2005

4. Union catalogue for librarians
Newspapers
Australian Bibliographic Network
1981 Australian Newspapers
2007
Manuscripts Union catalogue for
public
Register of Australian
Archives and Manuscripts Libraries Australia
1997 2006
Web archives
Pandora 2009 Research
1997 Australian Research online
2005
Pictures
Picture Australia
Music
2000 Dance Music Australia
Australia Dancing 2005
2003

5. Achievements
• National collaboration
• Innovation and leadership
• Research infrastructure
• National and international exemplars

7. 2007
The idea…

8. Now…
• 300 million resources
• 50,000 unique users a day
• 10% mobile devices
• 70 million newspaper
lines corrected
• 1.5 million tags
• 42,000 comments
• 28,000 lists
• 140,000 Flickr images
• Forum
• API

10. “To all involved in bringing trove to the internet I say thank you! My research
would be severely lacking if not for this resource. .”
“We're just writing to congratulate you on a job well done - Trove is an absolute
treasure. We're so pleased Australian resources have entered the 21st
century.”
“I want to express my gratitude, and to say how very welcome it is for anyone with
internet access to be able to use your database! As someone teaching at a
university with somewhat modest financial resources for our libraries, I
welcome the access to vital information. I have been telling all of my fellow
scholars about Trove, and will be using it as a model of what can be for years
to come.”
“ Just HAVE to say how much I love Trove!!! You folk have made an amazing
“thing”…My research would be so difficult & time consuming if it were not for
TROVE…If THIS is what a library service is all about, the NLA is the epitome of
“library” unequalled in the world!!”

11. Key success factors
• 30 years of collaboration
→ →
• Lots of practice
• Technology finally caught up
• National leadership
• Trust
• People

12. The Trove team
Excellence in eGovernment
2011

13. Were the successes the ones we expected?
Were the challenges the ones we anticipated?

16. Ask?

17. Challenges
• Increased content = more servers, software
• Increased use = more bandwidth
• Increased profile = higher expectations
– Users want more content
– Users want new services
– Which users do we serve
– Constrained resources
• National or National Library service?

18. 2007
The idea…