National Library of Australia Publishing imprint celebrates 50 years National Library of Australia Publishing imprint is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022 – with several special events and publications marking this significant milestone.
Origin of the Library
Our collection originated with the formation of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library in 1901. The Joint Parliamentary Library Committee responsible for establishing the Parliamentary Library stated its objective as
‘keeping before it the ideal of building up, for the time when Parliament shall be established in the Federal Capital, a great Public Library on the lines of the world-famed Library of Congress at Washington; such a library, indeed, as shall be worthy of the Australian Nation; the home of the literature, not of a State, or of a period, but of the world, and of all time.’
The passage in 1912 of the