LibraryThing Poll: Best Australian Library Data Sources?

We've unfortunately lost contact with the National Library of Australia for "Add books" copy-cataloging, and while we're exploring our options with them, we want to get feedback from our members who use Australian sources at LibraryThing.

1. What are the best libraries in Australia for copy-cataloging?
2. Are there new Australian libraries we don't yet have access to, that are worth exploring?

Thanks for your help, mates!

1. The State Libraries are invaluable.

2. Been a while, but I seem to recall BONUS+, CAVAL, and Swift Consortium were having issues as well. Getting back into any of them would be immensely helpful. Not sure whether the Swift Consortium is still a going concern, though.

3. James Bennett Pty. is the Aussie answer to Bowker and useful for new titles or as a last resort, but their connection is also not working.

We currently have 63 AUS sources not working and 59 working. AUS sources released 105; not released 18.
We need to probably clean up some of the released/not released for AUS.
Also, where do we stand on the spreadsheet for working/not working sources? A lot of AUS sources seem to need credentials.

Looks like BONUS+ is defunct (maybe taken over by CAVAL?). CAVAL looks to be on Folio now.

If I'm understanding what copy-cataloguing is correctly, maybe this page could help?
As Davidgn said, the State libraries are amazing.

I work in a public library and we only use the NLA Libraries Australia service for copy cataloguing. They have had major disruptions to their service recently as they implemented a new LMS not long ago and now I beleive they have changed a lot of the systems behind the harvesting of other libraries data. I don't think anything could ever compete with the NLA after it is back up and running at full capacity.

The SLNSW has been a good backup while LA has been making changes but it will never have as good a coverage, it would be a useful addition though.

For DVDs and anything film/TV related a connection to AFTRS would be amazing: https://aftrs.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/

>2 davidgn: Working on our Australian sources a bit.

It looks like BONUS+ may no longer exist? I'm directed to the CAVAL site, at least.* Same with Swift Consortium: I'm brought to PLV, Public Libraries Victoria. I reached out to CAVAL and PLV directly. I also emailed Libraries Tasmania and James Bennett.

ETA: Looks like BONUS+ is defunct (maybe taken over by CAVAL?). CAVAL looks to be on Folio now. Ah, yes, thanks @lesmel. I agree.

Emailed AFTRS, too, we'll see what they say. (Fingers crossed.)

Thanks, everyone, for your input on this.

>6 kristilabrie: PLV is SWIFT renamed: https://www.plv.org.au/background/

James Bennett sell their records so I don't think they will want to give them away.

>8 zetetic23: I just figured this out re: PLV/SWIFT, thanks so much!

I was able to update SWIFT to PLV and get it working!

>10 kristilabrie: Nice, they are always a good fallback for new popular books

Thank you for your continuing work on Australian connections! NLA is our national library of legal deposit and Australia's main source of cataloguing records, so it would be great to have it working again. As others have said, they have been in the process of changing the LMS behind the Australian national bibliographic database which is likely to have created some issues.

In the meantime I've been relying on the state libraries (particularly Victoria and NSW) and the PLV collection, but have had to add many items manually lately. Are there any plans to add Amazon Australia?

>12 sallysetsforth: Thanks for your feedback! The NLA's data is now behind an API that we must set up in order to access their records, and includes requirements that involve developer work on our end to implement. I've been working on setting up other sources where we can get them—I got PLV (as you already know) and Libraries Tasmania, which requires some troubleshooting—and I plan on reassessing NLA with the team soon after.

I'll see about Amazon Australia; we'd need an affiliate account with them to set it up, I just need to see how much work that is to do. Thanks for the tip!

I'll work on this for the next couple of weeks and see where we get. I'll post an update here when I can.

Well, I have a really quick update that Libraries Tasmania is now working. :)

ETA: hold on that; I have it working on the backend but it's failing on "Add books". And fixed!

>14 kristilabrie: Please share your tricks if it is something @lesmel, @davidgn or me can use when troubleshooting some non-working sources. :-)

>15 bnielsen: Oh it was really simple! The URL I was given was formatted incorrectly; I needed to remove the leading https:// and the trailing /, which made the searches work again. (Then @ccatalfo had to help me force the updates to Overcat, which weren't going through for some reason.)

>16 kristilabrie: Nice. Thank you!

>16 kristilabrie: I would hardly call a URL that starts with https:// as being incorrectly formatted, although it may be incorrectly formatted for the field you're trying to add it to.

>18 jjwilson61: It was, for the field I was adding it to. :) Thanks!

>19 kristilabrie: And this is exactly the kind of clues I was asking for :-)

>13 kristilabrie: Thanks Kristi!

National Library of Australia is back up. (Also fixed or added dozens more, including National Library of Thailand)