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Government Publications

The University of Newcastle Library has a deposit arrangement which guarantees supply of most Commonwealth material published by the Australian Government. The Publications Register provides access to a range of Australian Government Publications.

Certain categories of material maybe discarded. Categories which may be disposed of immediately are duplicates, extracts, posters and similar ephemera, monographs for which there is a later edition and replacement copies e.g. daily for weekly Hansard and weekly issues for bound volumes of Hansard.

Some publications must be kept until superseded or else for 12 months e.g. directories, calendars, handbooks, career information, notice papers for Parliament and brochures providing information on government services or public education.

The National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) should be notified if there is other material which the Library wishes to discard because of its short term usefulness or inappropriateness for the collection.

Individual NSW Government Departments and statutory bodies are responsible for supplying deposit material to the Library. Publications of the NSW Department of Education and Training are deposited in the Huxley Library ; other State Government publications are housed in the Auchmuty Library.