The digital platform beloved by historians and researchers across the country could cease to operate if new federal funding is not found.
The National Library of Australia is facing a $13 million, or 21 per cent cut to its operating budget from July 2023.
Without additional funding, the Library will struggle to break even and will need to draw down on its cash reserve needed to maintain its heritage building. The peak body representing visual artists, National Association of the Visual Arts, has called for the government to exempt the institutions from its efficiency dividends policy, under which the budgets of Commonwealth entities are reduced each year.
The National Library is the repository of every publication in the country, and Trove holds the digital records of newspapers going back to the earliest publications of the NSW colony. The library has already cut the breadth of its collection, restricting it to the regions of Australia, Indonesia, China, Timor-Leste and the Pacific. Service hours have been reduced to reading rooms and bookshops, at a time when university libraries are also cutting back on services.
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