State Library of Western Australia
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Alexander Library Building
The Alexander Library Building, in the Cultural Centre of Perth, Western Australia, houses the State Library of Western Australia, J S Battye Library, State Records Office, in the Perth Cultural Precinct in Northbridge in Perth, Western Australia...
, in the Cultural Centre
Perth Cultural Centre
The Perth Cultural Centre is an area of central Perth, Western Australia and the collective name for the buildings of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum, Perth Gaol, Alexander Library, State Records Office, and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts .William Street,...
of Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
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Like all government authorities, the name changes over time, so the identity was for a long time 'Library and Information Service of Western Australia (LISWA)'. The name was changed in 2002 to the 'State Library of Western Australia'. The library is an agency within the Department of Culture and Arts.
The building, and the various agencies are often conflated by users and authorities - the Alexander building houses the
State Library of Western Australia, and it in turn has the J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History and shares the building with the State Records Office of Western Australia
State Records Office of Western Australia
The State Records Office of Western Australia is the Western Australian government authority with responsibility for identifying, managing, preserving and providing access to the State's archives...
Library services
The State Library of Western Australia's Public Library Services section supplies books, audio books, DVDs, CD-ROMs, etc, to the 67 metropolitan libraries in the suburbs of PerthPerth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
and the state's 160 country libraries, all of which are managed by local-government authorities, sometimes in conjunction with other library service providers.
Each local authority is allocated a specific amount for State-Library-supplied items, which is then apportioned between libraries under its control. This funding is expended on adult fiction, adult non-fiction and junior publications listed in the Public Library Services' weekly advance order list (AOL). Local libraries also benefit from ratepayer funds and other income sources.
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