State Library of Western Australia, Alexander Library Building
31°56′57″S115°51′38″E / 31.949057°S 115.860534°E / -31.949057; 115.860534 (State Library of Western Australia)
Location
Perth, Western Australia
Type
State Library
Established
1889; 135 years ago (1889)
Collection
Items collected
Books, journals, newspapers, magazines, manuscripts, personal papers, maps, printed music, sound and music recordings, oral histories, films, photographs and ephemera
Size
1.5 million items, 4,000 linear metres of archives[1]
Other information
Director
Catherine Clark (CEO and State Librarian)
Website
slwa.wa.gov.au
The State Library of Western Australia is a research, education, reference and public lending library located in the Perth Cultural Centre in Perth, Western Australia. It is a portfolio agency of the Western Australia Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, and facilitated by the Library Board of Western Australia.
The State Library has particular responsibility for collecting, preserving and digitising Western Australia's heritage materials. The J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History is the section of the Library dedicated to West Australian historical materials.
^Annual Report 2011-2012 of the Library Board of Western Australia : 60th Annual Report of the Board(PDF), State Library of Western Australia, 2012, archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2013, retrieved 6 February 2013
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