Policy & planning
Collection
General / All materials
- Collection development policy
- Conditions of loan (for exhibitions)
- Cultural Gifts Program (previously known as the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme)
- Guidelines for the acquisition of portraits
- Guidelines for the discard and retention of library material
- Guidelines for the National Library of Australias reference collection virtual reference collection and material held in the reading rooms
Electronic
- Electronic Information Resources Strategies and Action Plan
- Digitisation policy 2000-2004
- Guidelines for the selection of online Australian publications intended for preservation by the National Library
- National Strategy for provision of access to Australian electronic publications: A National Library of Australia position paper (1996)
- PANDORA - Preserving and Accessing Networked DOcumentary Resources of Australia - Review of progress to June 1997
- Policy on networked Australian electronic publications
- Policy on the use of Australian CD-ROMs & other electronic materials acquired by deposit
- Selection Committee on On-Line Australian Publications (SCOAP)
- Statement of principles guiding Licence negotiation for National Library of Australia
- Statement of principles guiding purchase of electronic products for National Library of Australia
Australian library collecting agreements
The National Library of Australia has collecting agreements with a range of Australian libraries:
Australian National University Library
- Agreement for Japanese materials, 1955 [Formal agreement]
- Agreement on collecting policy in relation to business and trade union archives, 1961 [Formal agreement]
- Agreement re Thai materials, 1995 [Informal agreement]
- Collecting and providing access to Korean vernacular materials, 1996 [Formal agreement]
- Collection cooperation agreement on Chinese provincial and provincial capital city statistical yearbooks, 1988 [Formal agreement]
- Loan of Hallstrom Pacific Collection, 2006 [Formal agreement]
- Pacific collection co-operation [Informal agreement]
CSIRO Black Mountain Library
- Agreement on long term loan of the Zimmerman Entomological Collection, 2008-2018 [Formal agreement]
La Trobe University Library
- Loan of Lacap-Booth, Lopez, Paraguayan, Mendel and Brazilian (Guimares) collections, 1991 [Formal agreement]
- Agreement Between the National Library of Australia and La Trobe University for the Loan of Certain Library Material to La Trobe University, 2001 [Formal agreement]
National Archives of Australia
- Guidelines for handling personal records collections containing Commonwealth records, 1983 [Formal agreement]
Northern Territory University Library
- Cooperative collecting of Eastern Indonesian library materials, 1993 [Formal agreement]
NB* See the Australian Libraries Gateway for other Australian library collecting agreements.
