Where to send your print book to fulfil Legal Deposit – Australian libraries
This information will come in handy for Australian authors upon publication of your book.
As discussed in Chapter 24 of Look – It’s Your Book!, within one month of receiving print copies of your newly released title, you need to deposit copies of your book with relevant libraries to comply with the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Legal Deposit).
Here are the addresses you may need.
Begin with the National Library of Australia at this address:
Books – Legal Deposit
National Library of Australia
Canberra ACT 2600
And then depending which state you reside in, send one copy to your home state also.
Legal Deposit
State Library of New South Wales
Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Legal Deposit Officer
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Legal Deposit
State Library of South Australia
GPO Box 419
ADELAIDE SA 5001
Legal Deposit Officer
Northern Territory Library
GPO Box 42
Darwin NT 0801
Legal Deposit (Queensland)
Resource Discovery Unit
State Library of Queensland
P O Box 3488
South Brisbane QLD 4101
Legal Deposit Officer
State Library of Tasmania
91 Murray Street
Hobart TAS 7000
Legal Deposit
State Library of Western Australia
Perth Cultural Centre
25 Francis Street
Perth WA 6000
The ACT does not have current legal deposit legislation but ACT-based authors can send a copy of their book to:
ACT Heritage Library
PO Box 158
Canberra City ACT 2601
Refresh yourself on how to get your book into libraries, how to register for lending rights schemes and how to do library author talks by reading your copy of “Look – It’s Your Book” again. And congrats on producing your book!