1. Jasmine Cameron's recent paper in Australian Library Review (11(4), 1994) introduced the National Library's intention to visit Papua New Guinea and discussed Pacific collecting in the light of the Library's Collection Development Policy and new corporate Strategic Plan.
  2. Marie Sexton, March 1983, NLA Registry File for PNG acquisitions.
  3. Colin Baker is currently the University Librarian (Matheson Library) at the PNG University of Technology (Unitech) in Lae - formerly College Librarian, Armidale College of Advanced Education.
  4. Conspectus collecting level - as per the NLA Collection Development Policy.
  5. NLA Gift & Exchange Review (1992) - Papua New Guinea / Fiona Bright (Internal doucment, NLA Gift & Exchange Unit).
  6. 'The Activities of the National Library of Australia's Regional Co-operation Program in the Pacific 1980-1994' (Internal document, NLA International Branch, August 1994).
  7. Pan Pacfica run annual acquisitions trips to PNG - their commercial supply services being linked to the success of these trips. The NLA uses Pan Pacifica for the Pacific region, although not for PNG - due to the delays in supply and the fact that Pan Pacifica does not have the subscriptions databases that ISA have for invoicing, claiming etc in PNG.
  8. INNES, Stephen. 'Acquiring official publications from developing countries: a South Pacific perspective' in Australian Academic & Research Libraries, Vol. 25(2), June 1994, p. 89-94.
  9. PNG had legal deposit legislation introduced under the National Library & Archives Act (18 November 1993) and it's administration is an issue which the PNG National Library has yet to resolve.
  10. WINDUO, Steven Edmund. Book trade in Papua New Guinea: a directory 1993 (Port Moresby, PNG: University of PNG, 1993), p. 7.
  11. As above.
  12. COMMNET is a two-year collabortive project between the National Library of PNG (as archival hub), SIL (as academic hub), PNG University of Technology (technical hub), the PNG Department of Education (for literacy and awareness services) and PNG Post and Telikom (for implementation).
  13. Formerly, AIDAB - the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau.
  14. ANU may take on the filming in co-operation with other overseas institutions if masters can be safely acquired from Unitech.
  15. Service to the nation, access to the globe: National Library of Australia stategic plan 1993-98 (Canberra: The Library, 1994).