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The National Library of Australia is the country's largest reference library, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people."

History
The National Library of Australia, while formally established by the passage of the National Library Act, 1960, had been functioning as a National Library rather than strictly a Parliamentary Library, almost since its inception.

In 1901 a Commonwealth Parliamentary Library was established to serve the newly formed Federal Parliament of Australia.

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History

The National Library of Australia, while formally established by the passage of the National Library Act, 1960, had been functioning as a National Library rather than strictly a Parliamentary Library, almost since its inception.

In 1901 a Commonwealth Parliamentary Library was established to serve the newly formed Federal Parliament of Australia. From its inception the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library was driven to development of a truly national collection. In 1907 the Joint Parliamentary Library Committee under the Chairmanship of the Speaker, Sir Frederick Holder

Frederick Holder

Sir Frederick William Holder Order of St Michael and St George was the 19th Premier of South Australia and prominent member of the inaugural Australian commonwealth Parliament of Australia....
defined the objective of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library in the following words:

The Library Committee is keeping before it the ideal of building up, for the time when Parliament shall be established in the Federal Capital, a great Public Library on the lines of the world-famed Library of Congress at Washington; such a library, indeed, as shall be worthy of the Australian Nation; the home of the literature, not of a State, or of a period, but of the world, and of all time.

The present library building was opened in 1968.

Collections

The Library's collections of Australiana have developed into the nation's single most important resource of materials recording the Australian cultural heritage. The Library collects Australian materials of all kinds - not just works in print form - books, serials, newspapers, maps, music and ephemera - but also online publications and unpublished material such as manuscripts, pictures and oral histories. The Library has particular collection strengths in the performing arts, including dance.

The Library also has considerable collections of general overseas and rare book materials, as well as world-class Asian and Pacific collections which augment the Australiana collections.

The print collections are augmented by extensive microform holdings.

The Library maintains the National Reserve Braille Collection.

In total, over 5 million items are held.

The Library has digitised over 130,000 items from its collection (the 100,000th being http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3409117) and, where possible, delivers these directly across the Internet. The Library is a world leader in digital preservation

Digital preservation

Digital preservation is the management of digital information over time. Preservation of digital information is widely considered to require more constant and ongoing attention than preservation of other media....
techniques (see ), and maintains an Internet-accessible archive of selected Australian websites called the Pandora Archive

Pandora Archive

PANDORA - Australia's Web Archive is the national Web archiving for the preservation of Australia's online publications. It was established by the National Library of Australia in 1996, and is now built in collaboration with a number of other Australian state libraries and cultural collecting organisations, including the Australian Institute...
.

Asian Collections

The Library houses the largest and most actively developing research

Research

Research is defined as human activity based on intellectual application in the investigation of matter. The primary purpose for applied research is discovery , interpretation , and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the universe....
resource

Resource

A Resource is any physical or virtual entity of limited availability.It may also refer to:*Child and Parent Resource Institute, a psychiatric facility in London, Ontario, Canada...
on Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
in Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, and the largest Asian language collections in the Southern hemisphere

Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is south of the equator?the word sphere literally means 'half ball'. It is also that half of the celestial sphere south of the celestial equator....
, with over half a million volumes in the collection, as well as extensive online and electronic resources. The Library collects resources about all Asian countries in Western

Western world

The term Western world, the West or the Occident can have multiple meanings dependent on its context . Accordingly, the basic definition of what constitutes "the West" varies, expanding and contracting over time, in relation to various historical circumstances....
languages extensively, and resources in the following Asian languages: Burmese

Burmese

Burmese may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to Burma, a country in Southeast Asia* A person from Burma, or of Burmese descent. For information about the Burmese people, see Demographics of Burma and Culture of Burma....
, Chinese

Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
, Persian

Persian language

Indonesian

The word Indonesian may refer to:* Anything of, from, or related to Indonesia, a country in Southeast Asia* A person from Indonesia, or of Indonesian descent....
, Japanese

Japanese language

IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages....
, Khmer

Khmer language

Khmer , or Cambodian, is the language of the Khmer people and the official language of Cambodia. It is the second most widely spoken Austro-Asiatic languages, with speakers in the tens of millions....
, Korean

Korean language

Korean is the official language of North Korea and South Korea. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China....
, Lao

Lao

Lao or Laotian may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to Laos, a country in Southeast Asia.* Lao people . For more information, see Demographics of Laos and Culture of Laos....
, Manchu

Manchu

The Manchu people are a Tungusic peoples who originated in Manchuria . During their rise in the seventeenth century, with the help of Ming rebels , they conquered the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until its abolition in 1911 after the Xinhai Revolution, which established Republic of China in its place....
, Mongolian

Mongolian

Mongolian may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to Mongolia, a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia that borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
, Thai

Thai language

Thai , is the national language and official language language of Thailand and the mother tongue of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group....
, Timorese

Timorese

Timorese may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to Timor, an island in Southeast Asia** Something of, from, or related to East Timor, a country located on the island of Timor...
, and Vietnamese

Vietnamese language

Vietnamese , formerly known under French colonization as Annamese , is the national language and official language language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people , who constitute 86% of Demographics of Vietnam, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese, most of whom live in the United States....
.

The Library has acquired a number of important Western

Western world

Asia

Australian Buddhist Library
Library

A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, books, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual....
Collection
Braga Collection (Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
in Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
)
Claasz Collection (Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India....
)
Coedes
George Coedès

George C?d?s was a 20th century scholar of southeast Asian archaeology and history. Coed?s was born in Paris to a family of Hungarian people-Jewish emigres....
Collection (Indo-China)
London Missionary Society
London Missionary Society

The London Missionary Society was a non-denominational missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicanism and Nonconformism, largely Congregational church in outlook, with missions in the islands of the Oceania and Africa....
Collection (China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
)
Luce Collection (Burma)
McLaren-Human Collection (Korea
Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
)
Otley Beyer Collection (Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
)
Sakakibara Collection ([Japan])
Sang Ye Collection (China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
)
Simon
Walter Simon

Ernest Julius Walter Simon Order of the British Empire Fellow of the British Academy was a sinologist and librarian. He was born in Berlin and lived there, being educated at the University of Berlin, until he fled the Nazis to London in 1934, where he spent all the rest of his life except for brief periods as a visiting professor in various...
Collection (East Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
)
Harold S. Williams
Harold S. Williams

Harold Stannett Williams , OBE, was a remarkable Australian who spent most of his adult life in Japan. Born in Hawthorn, Victoria, he studied medicine at the University of Melbourne....
Collection (Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
)

The Asia

Asia

Manuscripts

The manuscript collection of the National Library contains about 26 million separate items, covering in excess of 10,492 meters of shelf space (ACA Australian Archival Statistics, 1998). The collection relates predominantly to Australia, but there are also important holdings relating to Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
and the Pacific. The collection also holds a number of European and Asian manuscript collections or single items have been received as part of formed book collections.

The Australian manuscript collections date from the period of maritime exploration and settlement in the eighteenth century until the present, with the greatest area of strength dating from the 1890s onwards. The collection includes a large number of outstanding single items, such as the 14th century Chertsey

Chertsey

Chertsey is a town in Surrey, England, on the River Thames and its tributary rivers such as the River Bourne, Chertsey. It can be accessed by road from junction / 11 / of the M25 motorway London orbital motorway....
Cartulary, the journal of James Cook

James Cook

Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....
on the HM Bark Endeavour

HM Bark Endeavour

His Majesty's Bark Endeavour was a 10-gun Royal Navy barque commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his First voyage of James Cook, to Australia and New Zealand in 1769-71....
, inscribed on the Register in 2001, and the diaries of Robert O'Hara Burke

Robert O'Hara Burke

Robert O'Hara Burke was an Ireland soldier and police officer, who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the leader of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria...
and William John Wills

William John Wills

William John Wills was an England surveyor who also trained for a while as a surgeon. He achieved fame as the second-in-command of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentar...
from the Burke and Wills expedition

Burke and Wills expedition

In 1860-61 Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills led an expedition of 18 men with the intention of crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 2,800 kilometres ....
.

A wide range of individuals and families are represented in the collection, with special strength in the fields of politics, public administration, diplomacy, theatre, art, literature, the pastoral industry and religion. Examples are the papers of Alfred Deakin

Alfred Deakin

Alfred Deakin , Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later second Prime Minister of Australia. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Deakin was a major contributor to the establishment of liberal reforms in the colony of Victoria , including the protection of rights at work....
, Sir John Latham, Sir Keith Murdoch, Sir Hans Heysen, Sir John Monash, Vance Palmer and Nettie Palmer, A.D. Hope, Manning Clark

Manning Clark

Charles Manning Hope Clark, Order of Australia , Australian historian, was the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume A History of Australia, published between 1962 and 1987....
, David Williamson

David Williamson

David Keith Williamson Order of Australia is one of Australia's best-known playwrights. He has also developed screenplays for film and television....
, W.M. Hughes

Billy Hughes

William Morris 'Billy' Hughes, Companion of Honour, Kings Counsel , Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, the List of longest-serving members of the Australian House of Representatives, and one of the most colourful figures in Australian political history....
, Sir Robert Menzies, Sir William McMahon, Lord Casey, Geoffrey Dutton

Geoffrey Dutton

Geoffrey Dutton was an Australian author and historian.Dutton was born in Kapunda, South Australia in 1922 and died in September 1998. He was awarded an Order of Australia in 1976....
, Peter Sculthorpe

Peter Sculthorpe

Peter Joshua Sculthorpe Order of Australia Order of the British Empire is a noted Australian composer. He is known primarily for his orchestral and chamber music, such as Kakadu and Earth Cry , which evoke the sounds and feeling of the Australian bushland and outback....
, Daisy Bates

Daisy Bates

Daisy Bates may refer to:* Daisy May Bates , Australian journalist, author, amateur anthropologist and lifelong student of Indigenous Australian culture and society...
, Eddie Mabo

Eddie Mabo

Eddie Koiki Mabo was a Torres Strait Islanders who became famous in Australian history for his role in campaigning for indigenous land rights and for his role in a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia that overturned the legal fiction of terra nullius which characterised Australian law with regards to land and title....
, inscribed on the Register in 2001, and Jessie Street

Jessie Street

Born in Chota Nagpur Division, Bihar, India, Jessie Mary Grey Street was an Australian suffragette, feminist and human rights campaigner.She was a key figure in Australian political life for over 50 years, from the women's suffrage struggle in England to the removal of Australia's constitutional discrimination against Australian Aborigin...
. The Library has also acquired the records of many national non-governmental organisations. They include the records of the Federal Secretariats of the Liberal party, the A.L.P

Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....
. and the R.S.L.

Returned and Services League of Australia

The Returned and Services League of Australia is a support organisation for men and women who have served or are serving in the Australian Defence Force ....
, the Australian Inland Mission

Australian Inland Mission

The Australian Presbyterian Mission was founded by the Presbyterian Church of Australia to reach those "beyond the furthest fence" with God's Word....
, the Australian Union of Students

Australian Union of Students

The Australian Union of Students was the precursor to the National Union of Australian University Students - as a representative body and lobby group for Australian University students....
, The Australian Ballet, the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust

Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust

The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust was set up in September 1954 under the guidance of H. C. Coombs, Governor of the Commonwealth Bank, Sir Charles Moses General Manager, Australian Broadcasting Corporation and John Douglas Pringle, Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald....
, the Australian Institute of Urban Studies, Australian Industries Protection League, the Australian Conservation Foundation

Australian Conservation Foundation

The Australian Conservation Foundation is an Australian non-profit, community-based environmental organisation focused on advocacy, policy research and community outreach....
, and the Australian Council of National Trusts. Finally, the Library holds about 37,000 reels of microfilm of manuscripts and archival records, mostly acquired overseas and predominantly of Australian and Pacific interest.

Reading rooms

The large National Library building is home to various reading rooms and collections. On the ground floor is the Main Reading Room - this is where the bulk of the Library's Internet access terminals are located, and where wireless internet access is available. Services are also delivered on-site from the Petherick Reading Room (for advanced readers) on the ground floor; the Newspaper & Microcopy and Map Reading Rooms on the lower-ground floor, Manuscripts and Pictures on level 2, and Asian Collections on level 3. Limited space is also available for readers at the Hume Annexe.

Facilities

The National Library of Australia hosts the (ANBD) and offers free access through the Search service. The Library also provides details, ISSNs and ISMNs for Australian publishers.

The National Library is also a popular venue for Canberra's climbing community the unique use of roughly cut blocks in the outer northern wall presents a challenging bouldering problem.

Collaborative services

The National Library of Australia provides a national leadership role in developing and managing collaborative online services with the Australian library community, making it easier for users to find and access information resources at the national level.

Picture Australia

is an Internet based federated search service that allows you to access many significant online pictorial collections at the same time. Over 40 cultural agencies have made in excess of 1,000,000 images in their image collections accessible through Picture Australia.

When you do a search on Picture Australia, thumbnail images are retrieved from participating institutions on the fly and inserted into the search results.

Picture Australia began in 1998 as a pilot project called ImageSearch, involving the Australian War Memorial

Australian War Memorial

The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national war memorial to the members of all its Australian Defence Force and supporting organisations who have died or participated in the wars of the Australia....
, the National Library of Australia, the State Library of New South Wales

State Library of New South Wales

State Library of Tasmania

The State Library of Tasmania is the organisation which runs the library system in the state of Tasmania, Australia. The State Library operates as part of the Department of Education, Tasmania, and maintains close ties with Tasmanian schools and senior secondary colleges....
and State Library of Victoria

State Library of Victoria

The State Library of Victoria is the central library of the States and territories of Australia of Victoria , Australia, located in Melbourne. It is on the block bounded by Swanston Street, La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Russell Street, Melbourne, and Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Streets, in the northern centre of the Melbourne central busi...
.

Following the very strong support received in response to the prototype, it was decided to expand into a new service to include more libraries, galleries, museums, and archives. The service was launched on 4 September 2000 by the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Mr Bruce Scott, in a ceremony at the National Library of Australia and saw significant growth in usage almost immediately. The National Archives of Australia

National Archives of Australia

The National Archives of Australia is a body established by the Government of Australia for the purpose of preserving Commonwealth Government records....
and the University of Queensland

University of Queensland

The University of Queensland is one of Australia's premier learning and research institutions. The University is a founding member of the national Group of Eight, an alliance of research-strong, mostly "Sandstone universities" committed to ensuring that Australia has higher education institutions which are genuinely world class....
Library also joined the service in time for the launch.

Picture Australia won an Australian Financial Review 2000 Australian Internet Award in the Arts category on 28 November 2000.

In early 2006, in an effort to increase contemporary content, Picture Australia embarked on with flickr.com

Flickr

Flickr is an and video hosting service website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository....
.. The program "People, Places and Events" was successful and a new project called "Ourtown" was established to gain access to images of Australian life and to source contemporary views of historic images in the collection.

Libraries Australia

is a resource-sharing service coordinated by the National Library of Australia for Australian libraries and their users. It is used for reference, collection development, cataloguing and interlibrary lending. The heart of Libraries Australia is the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD) which records the location details of over 42 million books, journals, newspapers, pictures, maps and more, which are held in over 800 Australian libraries, including academic, research, national, state, public and special libraries. There are now links to over 700,000 digitised collection items available from Libraries Australia.

You can access Libraries Australia from home, work, school, university or from any personal computer with an internet connection.

Libraries Australia is free, easy to use, and extremely flexible. It allows you to:

• Find information through a simple search
• Get instant access to many digitised items
• Borrow through your local library, or order from another library
• Locate contact details and library locations across Australia

Australian Newspapers

is a free online service enabling full-text searching of historic newspaper articles published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s, when copyright applies. The service is managed by the National Library of Australia, in collaboration with the Australian State and Territory libraries.

On 25 July 2008 the Australian Newspapers Beta service was released to the public. The Beta service contains over 3 million articles from 1803 onwards and more content is being added on a regular basis.

PANDORA

Pandora

[Image:Pandora.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"The Creation of "[A]NESIDORA" on a white-ground kylix by the Tarquinia Painter, ca 460 BC In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman....
, Australia's Web Archive, is a growing collection of Australian online publications, established initially by the National Library of Australia in 1996, and now built in collaboration with nine other Australian libraries and cultural collecting organisations.

The name, PANDORA, is an acronym that encapsulates its mission: Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia.

The purpose of the PANDORA Archive is to collect and provide long-term access to selected online publications and web sites that are about Australia, are by an Australian author on a subject of social, political, cultural, religious, scientific or economic significance and relevance to Australia, or are by an Australian author of recognised authority and make a contribution to international knowledge.

Music Australia

is an online service that showcases Australia’s musical culture across contemporary and historical periods, from the earliest published music to the latest hit. It is a free resource discovery service, hosted by the National Library of Australia that helps people to find, explore and locate all types, styles and genres of Australian music – whether created, performed or published in Australia or by Australians, or associated with Australia’s musical culture.

You can access and navigate a rich store of information on Australian music, musicians, organisations and services, all from a single access point. You can find music scores, sound recordings, websites, pictures and films, multimedia, kits and objects, and archival collections and other music-related material held by a large number of Australia's cultural institutions or described by specialist music services. Music Australia covers both heritage and contemporary music, and includes all formats, styles and genres.

Australia Dancing

The portal, hosted by the National Library of Australia, provides users with access to both current and historical information about dance in Australia.

The primary zone, the directory of resources, describes dance research materials held by the National Library of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive

National Film and Sound Archive

State Library of New South Wales

The State Library of New South Wales is a large public library owned by the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in Macquarie Street, Sydney, Sydney near Shakespeare Place....
). Some of this material is directly accessible in digital formats, such as digitised pictures. Some information is available as electronic finding aids, such as online descriptions of the contents of manuscript and ephemera collections. Progressively more material is being made available in these ways. ScreenSound Australia holdings are described according to their first preservation formats only, digital betacam videotape, 35 mm film, and so on. Other formats are usually available and users are encouraged to consult the National Film and Sound Archive

National Film and Sound Archive

The National Film and Sound Archive is Australia?s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of audiovisual materials and related items....
online catalogue for further information.

The directory service is supplemented by other pages enabling discovery, location and access to information about dance in Australia through links to other relevant sites, and through current industry information provided by Ausdance and available on the Ausdance website.

Resource material listed in the directory is generally available for on-site research purposes, although some material may be subject to certain restrictions requested by donors. Public or commercial use of the material may be subject to further or different restrictions. Enquiries should be directed to the holding institution.

Australia Dancing is an initiative of the National Library of Australia in partnership with key collecting institutions and the peak industry and advocacy body for dance in Australia - Ausdance. In its initial stages it was generously funded by the Australia Council. Its aim is to make Australian dance materials accessible to local, national and international communities, and to build the Australian Dance Collection.

AskNow

is a virtual reference service of National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) in partnership with public libraries and is managed by the National Library of Australia. The service is staffed by more than 160 librarians in Australia and New Zealand. It aims to provide high quality information to users, with the convenience of immediate, online communication. Using purpose-built software, it allows librarians and users to interact in real time.

ARROW

The is an integrated search engine enabling users search for Australian research outputs (e.g. theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures) simultaneously across the contents of Australian university research repositories. The records in ARROW are harvested from the hosting repositories via the Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Each record found through this service will link back to a record in the original repository

Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts (RAAM)

The is a guide to collections of personal papers and non-governmental organisational records held by Australian libraries and archives. RAAM is a successor to the Guide to collections of manuscripts relating to Australia which was published by the National Library of Australia from 1965 to 1995. The project to convert the Guide to a web-accessible database was a cooperative venture initiated by the National Library with the assistance of a grant from the Towards Federation 2001 Working Group on High Priority Cross-Sectoral Projects. New records were added to the existing 6,000 entries in the Guide to create a database of 29,000 records at the time of release in October 1997. This had grown to 37,000 records by December 2000.

Maps of Australia

is an online database which provides a geospatial search interface for catalogue records of over 100 000 maps of Australia held in Australia's libraries, from the earliest mapping to the present. By December 2008, there are about 4,000 map images (digitised maps) on Maps of Australia.

National Directors

1901 - 1927 - Arthur Wadsworth, Interim Commonwealth Parliamentary Librarian
1927 - 1947 - Kenneth Binns CBE, Commonwealth Parliamentary Librarian
1947 - 1970 - Harold Leslie White
Harold Leslie White

Sir Harold Leslie White Order of the British Empire was the Parliament of Australia of Australia from 1947 to 1960, and National Librarian from 1960 until his retirement in 1970, when he was Knight Bachelor....
, National Librarian
1970 - 1974 - Allan Percy Fleming CBE, OBE, National Librarian
1974 - 1980 - George Chandler (Librarian), Director-General
1980 - 1985 - Harrison Bryan AO, Director-General
1985 - 1999 - Warren Horton AM, Director-General
1999 - present - Jan Fullerton AO, Director-General

External links

(NLA
NLA

The three letter acronym NLA can refer to the following:*National Landlords Association, the largest representative body for landlords in the United Kingdom, go to www.landlords.org.uk...
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