Bibliography
This bibliography is a select list of publications consulted in developing this document and referred to in context throughout the text. Readers should also consult the Public Libraries pages of the State Library of NSW website for other useful information.
General Policy Documents
Guidelines relating to section 10
Public library policy 2008–2011; Discussion draft. Library Council of New South Wales, December 2007
Standards
Guidelines and standards for Queensland public libraries
The public library service; IFLA/UNESCO guidelines for development. Prepared by a working group chaired by Philip Gill on behalf of the Section of Public Libraries. IFLA Publications 97. (KG Saur, 2001) (p. 130)
Public library service standards, launched April 2001, revised December 2007. UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2007 (p. 8)
General information (including standards and performance indicator results (scores)
Towards a quality service: goals, objectives and standards for public libraries in Australia. ALIA, 1990, reprinted 1994 (p. 107)
Wisconsin Public Library Standards 4th edition. (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, November 2005; Endorsed by Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries, Wisconsin Library Trustees Association, and the Council on Library and Network Development
Statistics for NSW
Census of population and housing 2006. Australian Bureau of Statistics NSW state and regional population projections 2001–2051, 2005 release, NSW Department of Planning
NSW statistical local area population projections 2001–2051, 2005 release, NSW Department of Planning
Public library statistics 2006/07; public library services in New South Wales. Prepared by Kathy Morrison. State Library of NSW, June 2008. 2004/05 and 2005/06 editions were also used together with Bibliostat Connect NSW public library statistics
Related policies, standards, guidelines and background reading
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander protocols for libraries, archives and information services. Published by the Australian Library and Information Association for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library and Information Resource Network (ATSILIRN)
Access to information in New South Wales public libraries; guideline. Library Council of New South Wales, 27 August 2008
Accessibility [electronic publishing] (Australian Dept of Finance and Deregulation, 2008)
Active engaged valued: older people and NSW public libraries by Mylee Joseph, State Library of NSW, June 2006
Australian Interlibrary Resource Sharing (ILRS) Code, May 2006
Australian public libraries statistical report 2005-2006, compiled by Public Library Services, State Library of Queensland, November 2006
Collection digitisation policy, National Library of Australia (reviewed annually)
Culturally diverse communities and the public library: a review of NSW public library multicultural services; Research report. Prepared by Cultural Perspectives Pty Ltd for the Library Council of New South Wales 2003
Digital practice: guidelines for digitising images in NSW public libraries, prepared by Swinburne Library and Information Service (SLIS) and Practico for the State Library of New South Wales, 2005
Financial reporting, State Library of NSW, 2007. In particular, Public libraries in New South Wales; financial reporting (Spencer Steer Chartered Accountants, 20 December 2004; minor changes 15 August 2007
Free Internet access in public libraries; law and policy, State Library of New South Wales, 30 December 2003
Guidelines for Australian Home Library Services Australian Library and Information Association, 2000
Guidelines for NSW Home Library Service Delivery, Public Libraries NSW – Metropolitan Association Home Library Services Working Group, adopted in February 2003
IFLA/UNESCO Public Library Manifesto, 1994
Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Benchmarking Study. Report by the National Resource Sharing Working Group. National Library of Australia, 2001
Libraries Australia (resource sharing service based on the Australian national bibliographic database)
Libraries Australia Descriptive cataloguing standards
Libraires Australia Subject cataloguing standards
Libraries Australia Document Delivery (LADD) module
MARC Concise format and MARC code lists, available at the Library of Congress website
Mobile libraries. Website developed by the Country Public Libraries Group of Victoria
Mobile library guidelines, by Robert Pestell. The Hague, Netherlands, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, IFLA Round Table on Mobile Libraries, 1991. (IFLA professional report no 28). Also available as ERIC document ED350 014
Multicultural services review, ACT Library & Information Services, May 2003
Patterns of internet access in Australia, 2006. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Catalogue no. 8136.0.55.001, 29 November 2007.
People places: a guide for public library buildings in NSW, 2nd edition, Sydney: Library Council of NSW, 2005
Privacy guidelines for NSW public libraries, Library Council of New South Wales, March 2008
Public libraries in New South Wales financial reporting (Spencer Steer Chartered Accountants (for State Library of NSW), 20 December 2004, minor changes 15 August 2007)
Public libraries South Australia – analysis of public library funding resources. Compiled by ABS Information Consultancy Unit, South Australia, September 2005. ABS and Public Libraries SA, 2005. (p. 9)
Public library objectives and standards. A statement for the guidance of Councils. Revised edition. Library Board of New South Wales, 1969. (p. 24)
Qualifications (ALIA - Australasian Library and Information Association)
Salaries for Australian librarians and library technicians 2007–2008 (salary scales and worklevel guidelines) (ALIA – Australian Library and Information Association)
Standards, guidelines and benchmarks for public library services in Australia and overseas: a guide to resources, compiled by the ALIA Public Libraries Reference Group
Statement on free access to information, Australian Library and Information Association, 2001
Statement on public library services, Australian Library and Information Association, 2004
Sustaining communities: Measuring the value of public libraries. Phase one: A review of research approaches, prepared by Jennifer Berryman for the Public Library Network Research Committee. (State Library of NSW, October 2005)
Taking services into the future: a manual for country public libraries, by John Liddle (JL Management Services). Department for Victorian Communities, Local Government and Regional Services Division, 2003. In three parts: Part 1; Part 2 (Financial management); and Attachments
Top performing interlending operations: results of the Australian benchmarking study, by Tom Ruthven and Susan Magnay. Paper presented by Tom Ruthven at the Interlending and Document Supply 7th International Conference, 1–5 October 2001, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Victorian public libraries key performance indicators. [Prepared by MacroPlan and Practico] Victorian Dept of Infrastructure, Local Government Branch, 1999
Virtual spaces; guidelines for public library websites, prepared by Paul Scully for the Library Council of New South Wales, 2002
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (W3C, 1999)
World Wide Web access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes, version 3.2, August 2002 (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission)
World Wide Web Accessibility, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, June 2008
