Senate inquiry into the role of libraries in the online environment: submission from public libraries Australia.

From: The Australian Library Journal | Date: February 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Introduction

THIS SUBMISSION REPRESENTS THE VIEWS OF A NEWLY FORMED ORGANISATION KNOWN AS Public Libraries Australia. Formed to aggregate the political, service and infrastructure capacity of Australia's 1510 (ABS June 2000) public libraries, Public Libraries Australia will support and represent public libraries on a national basis.

Networked across Australia there are 1510 public libraries. These are well-patronised access points for equitable access to recreational, information and educational support for Australian residents. There were 93.3 million visits made to ...

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