Libraries in Australia - National Library of Australia, Wimmera Regional Library Corporation, Burnside Library (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: National Library of Australia, Wimmera Regional Library Corporation, Burnside library, List of Carnegie libraries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Oceania, Mechanics' Institutes, State Library of New South Wales, Swan River Mechanics' Institute, Yarra Plenty Regional Library, Cultural institutions in Australia, University of Sydney Library, Eastern Regional Libraries, State Library of South Australia, University of Western Australia Library, Casey Cardinia Libraries, City of Sydney Library, Alice Springs Public Library, City of Playford Library Service, Wyndham Library Service, State Library of Tasmania, Women's Studies Resource Centre, Project Gutenberg Australia, Indigenous Knowledge Centre, State Library of Western Australia, J S Battye Library, Auscape International Photo Library, Stanton Library. Excerpt: The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library of Australia, 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." 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 defined the objective of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library in the following words: The Library Committee is keeping before it the...