National and State Libraries Australasia
| National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) Inc. | |
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| Established | 1973, as the State Librarians' Council | 
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| Website | www | 
National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) Inc., is an incorporated association and the peak body that represents the national, state and territory libraries of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. NSLA coordinates collaborative projects, networks and working groups addressing issues sector issues, including: copyright issues, archival collections, collection development, digital preservation, and oral history, with a focus on strengthening respectful and responsive relationships between First Nations library professionals, and tangata whenua. In partnership with the Australian Library and Information Association, NSLA compiles annual statistics on public library activities and usage throughout Australia, statistics on the services of its own collaborating libraries, and collaborates with partner organisations such as the Australian Research Council on research and development projects.
Precursors to the organisation include the State Librarians Council, the State Libraries Council and Council of Australian State Libraries (CASL).
Two pieces of work in recent years have been the design and implementation of the Australia's National edeposit service (NED), an online service for the deposit, archiving, management, discovery and delivery of published electronic material, and the Culturally-safe Libraries Program, which is overseen by a First Nations Advisory Group.