Services available
Te Puna members have access to a number of services to help them manage and maintain their individual catalogues, and share their bibliographic and holdings records with other member libraries through the NZ National Union Catalogue (NUC).
Read about the scope of the National Union Catalogue (doc, 266KB)
These services include:
Bibliographic records of NDHA items in the NUC
A monthly service providing a file of bibliographic records for National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) items that have recently been added to the NZ National Union Catalogue (NUC). These are records for preserved New Zealand digital items that are freely available and can be downloaded directly into your catalogue.
Each MARC21 format record (with UTF-8 character encoding) includes a permanent link to the item in the NDHA so that, once included in your catalogue, your customers can quickly and easily access the digital item.
This is a free service.
Initial files
Four files of bibliographic records for items added to the NUC from the NDHA. This covers the period from November 2008 (when the NDHA started) to the end of October 2011 (when this service started):
- NDHA - NZ websites - November 2008 to October 2011 (.mrc, 5.7MB)
- NDHA - NZ maps - NZMS13 (.mrc, 3.7MB)
- NDHA - NZ maps - NZMS290 (.mrc, 73KB)
- NDHA - All other items - November 2008 to October 2011 (.mrc, 26.9MB)
Ongoing files
Files of bibliographic records for NDHA items subsequently added to the NUC:
- NDHA - NZ websites - April 2012 (.mrc, 122KB)
- NDHA - All other items - April 2012 (.mrc, 1MB)
- NDHA - NZ websites - March 2012 (.mrc, 188KB)
- NDHA - All other items - March 2012 (.mrc, 1.6MB)
- NDHA - NZ websites - February 2012 (.mrc, 189KB)
- NDHA - All other items - February 2012 (.mrc, 1MB)
- NDHA - NZ websites - January 2012 (.mrc, 105KB)
- NDHA - All other items - January 2012 (.mrc, 436KB)
- NDHA - NZ websites - December 2011 (.mrc, 156KB)
- NDHA - All other items - December 2011 (.mrc, 884KB)
- NDHA - NZ websites - November 2011 (.mrc, 165KB)
- NDHA - All other items - November 2011 (.mrc, 2.3MB)
Synchronising records with the NUC
The NZ National Union Catalogue (NUC) is kept up to date by synchronising its bibliographic records and holdings statements with those from member libraries and the OCLC's WorldCat.
Batch loading
Bibliographic records and holding statements of member libraries are batchloaded to the NZ National Union Catalogue (NUC) on a regular basis by the National Library. This service is included as part of the Te Puna membership fee.
Information about the service is available in the policy on batch loading of catalogue records and their holdings from New Zealand libraries. To discuss having your library's records batch loaded, please contact Te Puna services.
Batch loading using OSMOSIS
OSMOSIS is a database processing software, developed by The Marc of Quality (TMQ), which enables holdings from your library's catalogue to be moved across to the NUC with very little effort on your part. OSMOSIS uses ‘sequential snapshots’ of your library’s catalogue to identify additions and deletions of material held. Criteria for participating in OSMOSIS includes the ability to provide a MARC record export.
OSMOSIS is available to Te Puna members for an additional cost. For more information, please contact Te Puna services.
Synchronising NUC records with WorldCat
The NUC's records are synchronised with OCLC's WorldCat on a nightly basis. This service is included as part of the Te Puna membership fee.
Enhanced tables of contents for selected records
The National Library supplies table of contents data for selected New Zealand and Pacific records - currently for monographs published between 2005 and 2009. These can be downloaded in Dewey-sequenced files.
Table of contents data is now added on all new cataloguing records and will be available through the NUC.
Download the new table of contents data
Supply of MARC records
We can supply MARC records to member libraries who are moving from a non-MARC to MARC library system, and want to import records to improve the quality of their OPACs.
We can also supply records to non-member libraries.
To discuss your requirements, please contact Te Puna services.
Email discussion list
As part of the Te Puna membership package, members can join the TePuna-L email discussion list. This enables members to share information and discuss matters relating to Te Puna services, and be notified of the release of new records files.
