The National Library of Australia is the most important one in the country. It provides all kind of documents and information on australian material and on non-australian as well. This library is cooperating with some other platforms that share the same goal, so as to provide more information.
The origins of the National Library of Australia go back to the 1901, when the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library served both Federal Parliament and the nation. In 1927 it was moved from Melbourne to Canberra, where it’s located now. In 1960 the National Library as we know it nowadays was born, since it was separated from the Parliamentary Library, and a new building was constructed for it.
It’s web page is very complete and useful, as it offers different ways of helping the user:
- Chatting live with a librarian, from Monday to Friday, at 10.00 am – 7.00 pm.
- Making a reference enquiry: enquiries can be sent online or by post, and they’ll be reponsed within one week.
- Phoning +61 (02) 62621266. The phoning service is available from Monday to Saturday (9.00am to 5.00pm)
Apart from all this services, in its web page we can access to different cultural manifestations. It contains a link to Music Australia, Australia Dancing, Picture Australia, etc. And its calendar can direct us to exhibitions and other conventions that are taking place in the National Library.
The National Library of Australia is strongly conected with PANDORA (Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia), which collects selected australian web resources, preserves them, and makes them available to everybody, through Pandora web site.
Pandora was created by the National Lybrary of Australia in 1996, and it colaborates now with some other state libraries and cultural collecting organisations.
REFERENCES
- National Library of Australia. (2009, October 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13:30, November 3, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Library_of_Australia&oldid=321976063
- National Library Of Australia (oficial web page. 2009). Retrieved 14:35, November 3, 2009, from http://www.nla.gov.au/
- PANDORA. Australia’s web archive (2009). Retrieved 14:37, November 3, 2009, from http://pandora.nla.gov.au/
- National Library of Australia (2009) in Recbib. Retrieved 14:40, November 3, 2009, from http://www.recbib.es/book/national-library-australia
