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About us
Libraries Australia is a resource sharing service coordinated by the National Library of Australia for Australian libraries and their users. It is used for reference, collection development, cataloguing and interlibrary lending. The heart of Libraries Australia is the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD), which records the location details of over 42 million items held in most Australian academic, research, national, state, public and special libraries.
The Libraries Australia service replaces earlier systems, Kinetica and the Australian Bibliographic Network (ABN) - which was created in 1981 to foster resource sharing by Australian libraries.
Libraries Australia is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Assistance is available via email or by telephoning the Help Desk.
Charges
Libraries Australia is a subscription based service. For information see our current charges. A free search service is also available for all Australians to use.
Libraries Australia Advisory Committee
The Libraries Australia Advisory Committee provides advice on strategic and policy issues affecting the delivery of the Libraries Australia service and the broad direction of service development. The National Library gives considerable importance to the views of the Libraries Australia Advisory Committee.
The current membership of the Committee and the papers of the Libraries Australia Advisory Committee are both available.
Expert Advisory Groups
Standards on the various services provided by Libraries Australia will be maintained through Expert Advisory Groups. The role of these groups is to provide advice to the Libraries Australia Advisory Committee on a specific topic as needed. There is currently one Group:
The work of previous Expert Advisory groups is still available.
Libraries Australia Training Service Providers
Accredited Libraries Australia Training Service Providers, schedule training on Libraries Australia Services in most capital cities and some regional centres. Libraries Australia also produces manuals, guides and online help to assist people use the Libraries Australia services.

