National Library of Australia
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The National Library of Australia is the country's main reference library, located in Canberra, and serves as a central repository for Australian knowledge and cultural materials. It matters because it preserves and provides access to important documents, publications, and records that reflect Australia's history, culture, and heritage for researchers, students, and the public.
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Original National Library building (1934), demolished 1968 The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act 1960 for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people", thus functioning as a national library. It is located in Parkes, Canberra, ACT.
Created in 1960 by the National Library Act, by the end of June 2019 its collection contained 7,717,579 items, with its manuscript material occupying 17,950 metres (58,890 ft) of shelf space. The NLA also hosts and manages the Trove cultural heritage discovery service, which includes access to the Australian Web Archive and National edeposit (NED), a large collection of digitised newspapers, official documents, manuscripts and images, as well as born-digital material.
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