Publications made available to the Australian public
Legal deposit
Digital and hard-copy Australian published materials
Other information
Budget
A$57,800,000 (2015–16)
Director
Marie-Louise Ayres
Employees
400 (2016)
Website
www.nla.gov.au
Building details
National Library of Australia as viewed from Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra
General information
Status
Completed
Architectural style
Late Twentieth Century Stripped Classical
Address
Parkes Place and King Edward Terrace, Parkes, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Country
Australia
Construction started
1961
Inaugurated
15 August 1968 (1968-08-15) by Prime Minister John Gorton
Cost
A$8 million (1968)
Technical details
Material
Marble, granite, bronze, slate, trachyte, and copper
Design and construction
Architect(s)
Walter Bunning
Architecture firm
Bunning and Madden
Other designers
Leonard French (stained-glass windows)
Mathieu Matégot (Aubusson tapestries x3)
Tom Bass (copper sculpture)
Henry Moore (sculpture)
Commonwealth Heritage List
Official name
National Library of Australia and Surrounds, Parkes Pl, Parkes, ACT, Australia
Type
Listed place
Criteria
A., D., E., F., G., H.
Designated
22 June 2004
Reference no.
105470
References: [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Original National Library building (1934), demolished 1968
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act 1960 for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people", thus functioning as a national library. It is located in Parkes, Canberra, ACT.
Created in 1960 by the National Library Act, by the end of June 2019 its collection contained 7,717,579 items, with its manuscript material occupying 17,950 metres (58,890 ft) of shelf space. The NLA also hosts and manages the renowned Trove cultural heritage discovery service, which includes access to the Australian Web Archive and National edeposit (NED), a large collection of digitised newspapers, official documents, manuscripts and images, as well as born-digital material.
^"NLA Annual Report 2015-2016 | National Library of Australia" (PDF). nla.gov.au. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
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^"CDP – How we collect". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
^"National Library of Australia and Surrounds, Parkes Pl, Parkes, ACT, Australia (Place ID 105470)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
^"Our Building". nla.gov.au. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
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