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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 Library's 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 material see the National and State Libraries of Australasia Collaborative Lending Principles. Loan period...

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 staff working in a dedicated document supply section. Membership drawn from such diverse library sectors...

  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 have fairly close contact.  I think of them as the aggregator siblings.  All four aggregate metadata ...

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 to acquire materials. Current information on these processes for publishers, creators and donors is ...

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 to aim to preserve a comprehensive record of newspaper publishing from the time of white settlement...