The members of the group are experienced reference librarians from the state, university and special library sectors, and National Library representatives. Julie made an extremely valuable contribution to the work of the group. The group reviewed the functionality and useability of the KineticaWeb interface for reference and end users. The review included a comparative evaluation with similar products. A number of the group's recommendations have already been implemented and others will be included in future development of the service.
End users have many needs for information from a bibliographic service.
In addition to easy high quality searching they often have a need to download records into bibliographic software packages such as Procite and Endnote. The Group explored the current output options from the Kinetica and found the format was not ready for easy transfer for this purpose. The summary of recommendations includes a section on formatted outputs and marking records for convenient use in bibliographic packages. The National Library has provided library users in its reading rooms with access to KineticaWeb since the commencement of the service and has conducted a trial of end user access. La Trobe University made the KineticaWeb service available to academic staff and postgraduate students as a trial from November 1999.