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Using RLIN in the Australian National Gallery Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Joan Bruce*
Affiliation:
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
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Abstract

The Australian National Gallery Library has used RLIN since January 1985. It is used primarily as an online bibliographic database, to trace publications on particular artists and as a means of verifying references supplied by library users. It is also used, but less frequently, to verify bibliographic details of items to be acquired for the Library; other more occasional use is made of RLIN as a source of catalogue records, to identify locations of items the loan of which is to be sought from overseas, to verify name headings, and as a source of information used in stock selection. Of the special files, Scipio has proved most useful as a source of information on sales catalogues. RLIN does not present insuperable problems to the remote user, although an offline print facility and extended access hours would both be helpful.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1989

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