The National Library of Australia has announced its new “Single Business Discovery Service” in Beta mode.  Despite the wordy name this is a single easy access point to a variety of Australian catalogues, directories and collections.  For this initial version there are a range of data sources including: the Australian National Bibliographic Database, Australian Newspapers, Picture Australia, the ARROW Discovery Service, and Pandora. The new service also provides the discovery interface for the People Australia initiative and some external sources of data such as OAIster, Open Library, the Hathi Trust, the Internet Archive and the Library of Congress tables of contents, publishers’ descriptions and sample book chapters.
This is set to be really useful, so if you have any suggestions or comments please make them – so iwe get the best service possible!

To have a look, a play, and to use it – <a href=”http://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/”>http://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/</a>