If you have any questions about whether the publication you have produced should be deposited with the National Library, contact the Legal Deposit Librarian.
Printed publications covered by Legal Deposit
- almanacs, calendars and diaries that have text, not just dates
- annual reports
- books and booklets
- brochures, pamphlets and leaflets
- calendars of tertiary institutions
- company profiles
- conference papers and proceedings
- directories
- discussion documents
- guidebooks
- histories of families, groups, districts and organisations
- kits containing printed text
- loose-leaf publications and all updates
- magazines, journals and ongoing publications (serials)
- maps, charts, plans and tables
- microfiche and microfilm
- newsletters of all kinds
- newspapers
- prospectuses
- reports
- sheet music
- supplements
- working papers
- yearbooks.
Electronic documents covered by Legal Deposit
- any off-line or internet equivalent of any document covered by Legal Deposit for printed materials
- any off-line or internet version of any document covered by Legal Deposit for printed materials
- multimedia CD-ROMS
- resources on CD/DVD
- navigational maps
- music recordings
- talking books
- documentaries, television series and animated features.
Printed and electronic documents not covered by Legal Deposit
- blank forms or labels, programmes and timetables
- in-house material such as training manuals, teaching or course notes and minutes of meetings
- offprints such as excerpts from publications, separately printed
- press releases
- reprinted or reissued publications with no alterations to text or illustrations
- trade advertising.
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