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The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act 1960 for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of ...
The Parliamentary Library of Australia is a significant research and information service that supports the Parliament of Australia.Established in 1901, the library is an integral part of the Department of Parliamentary Services and provides independent, impartial and comprehensive information to members of Parliament, namely members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their staff and ...
As the territory contains Australia's capital city, Canberra (which takes up a significant amount of the territory), the ACT contains many of the libraries which are part of government organisations. National Library of Australia, 6,496,772 items held, largest library in Australia. [1]
The National Library of Australia (NLA) began investigating the potential for a national shared cataloguing network in the 1970s. The idea behind the network was that, instead of every library in Australia separately cataloguing every item in their collection, an item would be catalogued just once and stored on a single database.
The following is an index of lists of libraries in Australia, categorized by state or territory. List of libraries in Australian Capital Territory List of libraries in New South Wales
National Library of Australia (4 C, 5 P) P. ... Pages in category "Libraries in Australia" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
National Library of Australia Council members (30 P) Newspapers on Trove (2 C, 516 P) P. People on Trove (3 P) Pages in category "National Library of Australia"
In 1949, the institute changed its name to the Library Association of Australia, and was renamed again 1989 to its current name of the Australian Library and Information Association and a permanent office was established in Canberra. [1] The Archives section, which had existed between 1951 and 1973, became the Australian Society of Archivists ...