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Processing and describing our collections Processing On acquisition, all items in the Library's collection are accessioned and recorded on the Library's Integrated Library Management System (ILMS). The Library currently uses the Voyager system. In addition, for manuscript and large picture archives, the collection management system Archive Space is used for the accessioning and detailed description of this material. All material is then catalogued according to the Library's Collection Description policy, with different levels of description employed for various categories of material. Descri...

1. Policy aim and scope   This policy provides a statement of the National Library of Australia’s current approach to describing its collections of Australian and overseas resources, both published and unpublished.  It covers all collection description activities undertaken in relation to the Library’s collections by Library staff as well as externally supplied descriptions from volunteers and other third parties such as publishers.  It also covers automated contributions to resource description and data enrichment, such as the aggregation of data from multiple sources in Trove. This p...