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The policy of no longer charging fines for overdue library materials doesnt mean that you can just keep books forever, though.

Libraries are required to understand and accept the following conditions of borrowing material from the National Library of Australia’s collections.

Live theatre is like an iceberg: What’s visible to the audience is only a small slice of the effort it takes to make the show happen.

Penn State’s newest interdisciplinary collaboration, the Center for Neurotechnology in Mental Health Research, strives to combine the expertise of mental health experts with neuroscience techniques being developed at Penn State.

Penn State University Libraries invites Penn State students, faculty and staff to submit their best “Through the Woods” -themed original creative writing to the fall Short Stories writing contest. The contest is open for submissions Monday, Oct. 4, through Friday, Oct. 29.

Borrowing Conditions Libraries are required to understand and accept the following conditions of borrowing material from the National Library of Australia’s collections. Material available for loan Serials and some of the Librarys special collections may not be available for loan. Due to the range of material it is not possible to clearly outline availability. However we will respond quickly if the item is not available. For more information on conditions of lending specific types of materia...

1 January 2010 - 12:00 Libraries Australia Document Delivery (LADD) is a web-based system for interlibrary lending and document delivery between Australian libraries, managed by the National Library of Australia. The LADD system has a broad user base with library members representing government departments, academic libraries, private companies and public libraries. Interlibrary loan (ILL) staff at these member libraries range from volunteers and part-time workers to full-time professional staf...

  In September last year, at the ALIA 2014 conference, I spoke about Trove at 5, and asked ‘are we there yet’, focusing on Trove’s audiences and the work still ahead to extend its reach to a full cross-section of the Australian community.  Today I would like to focus on where ‘there’ is, by comparing Trove to three other cultural aggregators, Europeana Digital NZ And Digital Public Library of America These are the services with which Trove is sometimes compared and with which we hav...

The Library develops its collections by building strong community connections, engaging with issues of contemporary significance and undertaking leadership activities, including innovating to address the impact of changing technologies on collecting and acquisition processes. This section of the policy addresses the strategies, methodologies and range of approaches that the Library uses to acquire material, but does not include procedures, systems and workflows that the Library uses internally ...

25 November 2008 - 12:00 This paper was presented by Pam Gatenby at the IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2008 which was held at the National Library of Singapore. Background to newspaper publishing in Australia The history of newspapers in Australia reflects the history and development of the country, from its colonial origins to its current day membership of the global community. Australia’s history is short compared to most countries so it is not unreasonable for Australian libraries...