Library Federation

National Library of Australia Launches Libraries Australia Portal
“Libraries Australia, a service that enables anyone with an Internet connection to select from more than 40 million items held in over 800 libraries across the nation….[was] launched at 12.30pm Monday 27 February at Parliament House, Canberra by Senator Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. This innovative service is an Australian first, opening up the collections of Australia’s libraries to the public. Libraries Australia, developed by the National Library of Australia, is an e-ticket to a world of information consisting of books, journals, newspapers, theses, pictures, music, manuscripts, maps and much more. Many online resources such as digitised images and full text government publications can also be accessed immediately online.”
Libraries Australia [via beSpacific]

This is, it seems, the equivalent of Library and Archives Canada’s AMICUS (“a free catalogue listing the holdings of libraries across Canada”). On this score, you might wish to take a look at the submission of the National Library of Canada to “Innovation in Canada.” Written in 2003, the brief sets out some basic things that need to be done to keep the library abreast of developments. There’s too much bureaucratese for me and not enough inspirational material.

And to wander this thread one further step to the side, isn’t it about time we developed a Law Library of Canada? I broached this idea some time back, but buried it in the middle of one of my more impractical pieces on practice, so to speak.