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Historical Development of Urbanism in Sydney, NSW, Australia (Sydney TimeMap)

This dataset does not contain any resources hosted on data.gov.au. It provides a link to the location of the National Library of Australia Freedom of Information (FOI) disclosure log to aide in …Show full descriptionThis dataset does not contain any resources hosted on data.gov.au. It provides a link to the location of the National Library of Australia Freedom of Information (FOI) disclosure log to aide in information and data discovery. You can find the FOI Disclosure log here and the Agency's Information Publication Scheme here. The data.gov.au team is not responsible for the contents of the above linked pages.

Trove is a discovery experience focused on Australia and Australians. It supplements what search engines provide. Useful for researching in the fields of the social sciences, literature, local or family history, and helps with school assignments.

A clickable interface linking the user to the Rare Map Digitisation Project at the National Library of Australia

In the 2020 financial year, 1286.9 million Australian dollars was spent on public library services across the country. In the 2010 to 2020 time period, the annual expenditure has risen constantly year on year with the exception of a slight drop in 2018.

Nearly 900 Western Australian newspaper titles are held by the State Library. These range from the manuscript newspapers of the early 1830s up to currently published titles. Selected Western Australian newspaper titles are available digitally through Trove, a service provided by National Library of Australia in partnership with state libraries, including the State Library of Western Australia. Currently, there are 110 Western Australian newspaper titles available. This file includes the title, dates of publication, other titles (former and later) area of publication and some notes about individual publications.

Proceedings of the Second National Forum on GIS in the Geosciences, 29 - 31 March 1995, held at the National Library of Australia.

The National Library of Australia operates the "http://trove.nla.gov.au/people">Trove People and Organisations zone which allows users to access information about significant people and organisations (parties) as well as related biographical and contextual information.

The Trove People and Organisations dataset is based on the Australian Name Authority File, a unique resource maintained since 1981 by Australian libraries which contribute their holdings to "http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au">Libraries Australia. The Trove People and Organisations zone plays an important role in exposing records about parties and linking to them in libraries and other collecting institutions. The data also provides links to resources by and about a party and relationships between parties.

To further enrich the service the Library is collaborating with organisations that already make available information about people and organisations in their specific domains and linking to them.

The API to this dataset provides access to 885,000 identities.

The dataset includes email and interview responses that capture the public library services outlooks of state and local governments in all Australian states. The interviews were in the form of personal interview, telephone interview and posting or emailing the survey instrument to potential respondents. In Western Australia the data was collected from local government elected members in that state and elsewhere, and from senior members of the Australian library profession. No data was collected from Tasmania, South Australia and Australian Capital Territory did not participate in the study. Most responses were from Queensland and Western Australia. Victoria and New South Wales responses were below expectations.

Picture Australia is an Internet based service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time. When you do a search on Picture Australia, thumbnail images are retrieved from participating institutions on the fly and inserted into the search results.

Picture Australia provides access to images that cover all aspects of Australiana:

• Artworks include paintings, drawings, prints and posters of abstract art, fine art and portraits
• Photographs capture people, places and events
• Objects include sculpture, scrimshaw, bark, costume, weapons
• Images may be in black and white or full colour.

This dataset contains metadata from all participating institutions (except for those from the State Library of Tasmania).

The National Library of Australia operates the Trove People and Organisations zone which allows users to access information about significant people and organisations (parties) as well as related …Show full descriptionThe National Library of Australia operates the Trove People and Organisations zone which allows users to access information about significant people and organisations (parties) as well as related biographical and contextual information. The Trove People and Organisations dataset is based on the Australian Name Authority File, a unique resource maintained since 1981 by Australian libraries which contribute their holdings to Libraries Australia. The Trove People and Organisations zone plays an important role in exposing records about parties and linking to them in libraries and other collecting institutions. The data also provides links to resources by and about a party and relationships between parties. To further enrich the service the Library is collaborating with organisations that already make available information about people and organisations in their specific domains and linking to them. The API to this dataset provides access to 885,000 identities.

Information about WA public libraries including: name, street and postal address, phone number, latitude, longitude and elevation from sea level. Show full description

The primary aim of the survey was to gain a 'snapshot' of what Australian libraries were doing with blogs and wikis. Methodology: An online survey. The population was Australian university, public and special libraries. The sampling frame was constructed from university library websites, State Library public library listings and the National Library of Australia's listing for special libraries. Branch libraries were treated as individual entries. Entries that were not relevant to the survey content, for example prison libraries, were removed from the sampling frame. To produce the correct sample sizes, every 10th library was sampled. The response rate was 21%. Once the data was weighted, the data was analysed using SPSS 13.0. Funding Body: Ray Choate Scholarship, Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA).

Legacy product - no abstract available

This data set relates to a survey of Australian public library service managers, conducted in August 2020 by researchers from Charles Sturt University. The survey sought to understand how public libraries in Australia were affected by and responded to the COVID-19 crisis.Three files are included: a PDF version of the survey, an XLSX file with all survey responses, and an XLSX file detailing the data coding. The data coding file also includes infromation about the distribution of the survey, and explains why free-text responses are not included in the published data set.

Legacy product - no abstract available

This dataset contains bibliometric data sourced from Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC) in January 2017. This data is from 63 Australian public library collections and includes details on: - OCLC title number - OCLC subject division category - Title - Author - Language - Audience - Library of Congress call number - Dewey call number

The associated files contain 25,000+ data points with all details of the subject categories across the 63 libraries analysed. Results show a range of distinct similarities across the collections of all libraries. An aggregated analysis of this data across the 63 public libraries is presented.

This open data file contains the text strings searched in the State Library’s online catalogue each month with the total number of times each text string was searched during the month.

The State Library’s online catalogue is openly available at http://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au. Users search the catalogue remotely and onsite in the library to find digital and physical collection materials and access subscription databases. State Library collections include photographs, newspapers, video, audio, books, online training, music, maps, 3D objects, journals, websites and more. At the end of the month, the raw search data from the catalogue is exported and analysed to count recurring searches.