Start dateBetween 1st January 2012 and 31st December 2012Date qualifiercircaFormatSQLDescriptionAurora is library management software used by the City of Sydney for their library catalogue since 2012. Prior to that the City used Horizon by Sirsi Dynix. Sydney Reference Collection materials were originally catalogued in Aurora to facilitate library functions, including acquistions and public access. This material was moved to the new archives management system in 2019. An item barcode is a unique number, a BibID is for a whole record and may have several items attached to it. Version history7.9.11 2017; 7.2.22 2017; 6.2.24 2016; 5.5.14 2015; 8.5.14; 2018Vendor (product)Aurora Information Technology 2012-2018Vendor (support)Aurora Information Technology 2012-2018System functionsManages circulation, cataloguing, acquisitions, serials, public access functionsRetention requirements (notes)Library materials are not subject to disposal schedules. However, some council records are included in the Sydney Refernece Collection. These are currently being removed and added to the archives collection. Method of containing dataManaged in the system by library staff and library ITLocation of systemThe catalogue was cloud hosted on a Rackspace server in St Leonards. It was managed by AIT, but accessed through the desktop version of Aurora.Archivist noteCall number, Title, Author, Pub Date, Publisher, place of publication, Barcode, Notes, Series, Collation, Isbn, Format, subjects, Bib ID, web, location
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Public access noteAccess to all items was available via an online cataloguePublic access statusOpen to public access
