ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 60 | December 2002
Memorandum of Understanding with National Library of Indonesia
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| Pak Dady Rachmananta, Director of the National Library of Indonesia with His Excellency Mr Ric Smith, Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, at the signing ceremony |
On 8 October 2002 the National Library of Australia (NLA) finalised a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Library of Indonesia at a signing ceremony in Jakarta. Seventy guests attended the function held in the auditorium of the National Library of Indonesia. Mr Ric Smith, the Australian Ambassador, witnessed the signing of the document by Pak Dady Rachmananta, Director of the National Library of Indonesia. Ibu Mastini Hardjoprakoso and Pak Hernandono, the two former directors of the National Library, were among guests of honour at the ceremony.
The Memorandum of Understanding formalises the close relationship that has existed between the two libraries for at least the last 30 years, since the time that the NLA’s office was established in Jakarta in the early 1970s. The collaboration is facilitated by the presence of the Library’s Regional Officer in Jakarta, and it encompasses a number of activities, including the sharing of advice, acquisitions, exchange of publications, bibliographic control, preservation and interlibrary loans. Recent activities have also included participation by the National Library of Indonesia in the NLA’s Regional Cooperation Program and the contribution of rare Indonesian items to the Library’s Treasures from the World’s Great Libraries exhibition in Canberra.
The signing of
the Memorandum of Understanding with the National Library of Indonesia complements
the signing earlier this year of a Minute on Cooperation between the Jakarta
offices of the National Library of Australia and the Library of Congress. It
is hoped that a similar agreement may be reached in the future with the KITLV
(The Netherlands’ Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology) office in
Jakarta.
—Oliver
Mann
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