With only six months worth of funding left, library’s director general faces ‘very big decisions’ on the future of Trove
“From an academic institution point of view, it could be really significant. But Trove is also used by the broader Australian population – by local historians, by family historians, researchers, by people trying to find out about their own families, their own histories.”
“From the very beginnings of the National Library’s work in the digital space, and we’ve been in this space now for well over 20 years, we have had one great driver – democratising access to our collections and the collections of other cultural institutions and making sure that they’re available to all Australians regardless of where they live, who they are, and their ability to pay,” she said.
In 2016, the Turnbull government slashed a further $20m in funding collectively from the National Library, the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Australian Democracy, the National Film and Sound Archive, and the National Gallery of Australia.
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