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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