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Cultural Gifts Program and tax incentives The Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program provides tax incentives to encourage gifts of culturally significant items from private collections to public art galleries, libraries, museums and archives. The National Library has received a large number of books, manuscripts, paintings, photographs, maps, and oral histories from donors who wished to obtain the benefit of a tax deduction. The Library is appreciative of the benefits of the Cultural Gifts Program and we welcome offers of materials from individuals and organisations that are intereste...

National Library of Australia's Jakarta office, Indonesia The National Library of Australia’s Jakarta Office is in the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, The Office's manager is responsible for the Library’s Indonesian Acquisitions Program as well as undertaking a variety of liaison and representational activities in Indonesia. Indonesian Collection Through our office in Jakarta we have created a world class research collection on contemporary Indonesia. We have been collecting material on Indonesia since the middle of the 1950s. Since the office was established in 1971 over 200,000 monograph...

Building our collections The Library has an active acquisitions program to support its mission of maintaining and developing a comprehensive collection that documents Australian life and society. The Collection Development Policy provides the Library with an overall framework for the collecting of Australian and overseas materials. Australian material Legal deposit Copies of all works published in Australia are received by the Library under legal deposit. Commonwealth, State and Territory Government publications are also received by deposit under a variety of special directives and circulars...

How does the Library use donations to its collections? The diversity and depth of the Library's Australian Special Collections owes much to the generous donations of individuals and organisations. Donations help build and enrich the Library’s collections and ensure the nation’s creativity, research and stories are preserved for the benefit of all Australians today and for the future. Research The Library’s special collections are developed to support research and study across a range of subject areas, primarily in the areas of the humanities and social sciences, but also in areas as di...

  The following website collections have been archived by the National Library of Australia using the Archive-It service managed by the Internet Archive. For suggestions on other sites of significance to archive that are not included in these collections, please contact Overseas Collection Development. Archived websites about Indonesia politics and government The Internet Archive comprises websites archived around a theme, and is fully accessible by public. Click on the links to see the front page of each collection on the Internet Archive and there you can find a complete list of featured s...