Activities

Infrastructure

The Library engages in a range of activities to help develop the Australian library and information infrastructure. By 'infrastructure' is meant the physical and institutional arrangements that create and promote access to information resources that reside in libraries and other cultural institutions.

The Library maintains a document - Key Elements of the Australian Library and Information Infrastructure - to help understand what is already in place and to provide a starting point for identifying barriers to access and how to address them.

The Library has set up a cross-program Infrastructure Group that determines future library infrastructure activities. This group developed the Library's Electronic Information Resources Strategies and Action Plan, a document addressing barriers to access to electronic resources in the four areas of collecting, preservation, access and resource sharing.

A key principle underpinning the National Library’s infrastructure activities is the need to provide access to a range of information resources regardless of format.