Senate Order for entity contracts listing relating to the period 1 July 2019 - 30 June 2020
Senate Order for entity contracts listing relating to the period 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020
Pursuant to the Senate Order for entity contracts the following table sets out contracts entered into by the National Library of Australia which provide for a consideration to the value of $100,000 or more (GST inclusive) and which:
a. have not been fully performed as at 30 June 2020, or
b. have been entered into during the 12 months prior to 30 June 2020.
Most of the contracts listed contain confidentiality provisions of a general nature that are designed to protect the confidential information of the parties that may be obtained or generated in carrying out the contract.
Senate Order for entity contracts listing relating to the period 1 July 2018-30 June 2019
Pursuant to the Senate Order for entity contracts the following table sets out contracts entered into by the National Library of Australia which provide for a consideration to the value of $100,000 or more (GST inclusive) and which:
have not been fully performed as at 30 June 2018, or
have been entered into during the 12 months prior to 30 June 2018.
Most of the contracts listed contain confidentiality provisions of a general nature that are designed to protect the confidential information of the parties that may be obtained or generated in carrying out the contract.
Organisational context
The Library s role is to ensure that documentary resources of national significance relating to Australia and the Australian people, as well as significant non-Australian library materials, are collected, preserved and made accessible either through the Library itself or through collaborative arrangements with other libraries and information providers. By offering a strong national focus in all that the Library does, and cooperating with others, the Library supports learning, creative and intellectual endeavour, and contributes to the continuing vitality of Australia’s diverse culture and heritage. Increasingly, library materials are being acquired and demanded in digital form.
To continue providing the Australian people with the service and access come to be expected, the Library needed to increase its capacity to collect digital content. The tools developed during the DLIR program are more robust for importing, managing and preserving such content, and al
Contracts for current reporting period
Senate Order for entity contracts listing relating to the period 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Pursuant to the Senate Order for entity contracts the following table sets out contracts entered into by the National Library of Australia which provide for a consideration to the value of $100,000 or more (GST inclusive) and which:
a. have not been fully performed as at 31 December 2020, or
b. have been entered into during the 12 months prior to 31 December 2020.
Most of the contracts listed contain confidentiality provisions of a general nature that are designed to protect the confidential information of the parties that may be obtained or generated in carrying out the contract.
1 February 2017 - 12:00
In February 2016 the legal deposit provisions in Australia’s Copyright Act were expanded to include digital publications and the public .au web domain. The result of twenty years of advocacy, the new provisions marked a dramatic shift in how Australia collects, preserves and makes accessible the full online publishing landscape.
Legal deposit has been the core of the National Library’s collections and services since it was introduced in Australia in 1912. It remains the most important mechanism by which national and state libraries can preserve the published record of their countries or states. But since the emergence of electronic publishing in the 1980s and online publishing in the 1990s, the Australian legal deposit scheme has been only performing half its role.