Guide to department and agency libraries
- Central Library
- Antarctic Division
- Bureau of Meteorology
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
- Supervising Scientist Division
Introduction
This guide provides information about the collections, services and locations of libraries in the Environment portfolio. The collections represent a special resource, and include historic and current material on the environment not available elsewhere.
Further information can be obtained directly from the libraries listed.
Central Library
There are two major libraries in the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities: the Central Library in the John Gorton Building and the Australian National Botanic Gardens Library. There are also small collections located with remote staff in Darwin, Kakadu, Uluru and Booderee.
The Central Library has an extensive collection of material on the environment: with strong collections on environmental policy, air quality, biodiversity, chemicals, coasts and marine, environmental impact assessment, forests, greenhouse, heritage, national parks, state of the environment, sustainable industry and threatened species.
The Library holds a collection of Commonwealth environmental impact statements undertaken under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974, and core collection of National Estate Grants Program and Australian Heritage Research Program reports. It also has a collection about places on the Register of the National Estate including material about how and why places are conserved.
Library publications
- Guide to Australian government environment departments
www.environment.gov.au/about/library/govtdepts.html
The collection is available for use by students, researchers and members of the public provided that prior arrangements are made. The library is open business hours from Monday to Friday and is a member of the ELN gratis network.
Contacts
Phone: 02 6274 1212
Fax: 02 6274 1215
Email: library@environment.gov.au
Address:
Ground Floor, John Gorton Building
King Edward Terrace
Parkes ACT 2600
GPO Box 787
Canberra ACT 2601
URL: www.environment.gov.au/about/library
Australian National Botanic Gardens
The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) Library has an internationally significant collection of botanical material. The library collection includes material on botany, horticulture, plant conservation, biodiversity, orchids, cryptogams and ecology. The collection of the Australian Biological Resources Study is also managed by the library. Special materials available include Index Kewensis on CD-ROM and maps. The collection is available for use by students and researchers provided prior arrangements are made.
Contacts
Phone: 02 6250 9480
Fax: 02 6250 9599
Email: anbg.library@environment.gov.au and clj@anbg.gov.au
Address:
Clunies Ross Street
Black Mountain
Canberra ACT 2600
GPO Box 1777
Canberra ACT 2601
Australian Antarctic Division
The Australian Antarctic Division Library, established in 1950, acts as the nation's primary source of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic information. The library supports the activities of Australia's Antarctic program including its scientific research, policy, management and support operations. It provides library and information services to Antarctic Division staff at its headquarters in Kingston, Tasmania and its Antarctic and sub-Antarctic stations. Individuals conducting polar research are welcome by appointment.
The library is a repository for materials of national significance including the ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) archive of station reports, voyage reports and ship log books, as well as rare and valuable polar materials, Antarctic Treaty information, ANARE Jubilee (1947-1997) oral history tapes and transcripts, and Antarctic historical artefacts.
The artefact collection is maintained and developed as a collection of national significance and items are displayed to publicise ANARE and the importance of Australia's role in the Antarctic.
Collections are located at Kingston head office and the four permanent stations: Macquarie Island, Casey, Davis and Mawson. A remote collection is located at the Glaciology Section at the Antarctic Co-operative Research Centre, University of Tasmania.
The library participates in collaborative resource sharing and consortia including FISHNET, AGLIN, ELN, ERA, IAMSLIC, Libraries Australia and the Tasmanian Library Network.
Contacts
Phone: 03 6232 3516
Fax: 03 6232 3517
Email: library@aad.gov.au
Address:
203 Channel Highway
Kingston TAS 7050
Supervising Scientist Division Library
The Supervising Scientist Division Library provides library services to staff of the Environmental Research Institute of the Supervising Scientist (eriss) and Office of the Supervising Scientist (oss), located in Darwin and at the Jabiru Field Station. The library currently includes approximately 10,000 books and reports, and subscribes to 45 journals. The collection consists mainly of material supporting the research work of the Institute and the supervisory work of the Supervising Scientist Division. The material held in the library is of a highly technical nature and at a tertiary education reading level. Print and non print materials on wetlands ecology, aquatic biology, minesite rehabilitation, environmental radioactivity, health physics, uranium mining, radioactive waste disposal and statistics form the majority of the collection. The library also maintains a database of material published on the Alligator Rivers Region. The library is open to the Public by appointment only. Please contact the Librarian to arrange an appointment. As some of the material held in the Library is confidential, non-Supervising Scientist staff do not have access to the whole collection.
Contacts
Librarian: 08 8920 1133
Fax: 08 8920 1199
Email Joan.Mount@environment.gov.au
Address:
Department of the Environment & Water Resources
Pederson Rd
Darwin Airport
Marrara NT 0812
GPO Box 461
Darwin NT 0801
Bureau of Meteorology
Australia's National Meteorological Library
- maintains a pre-eminent collection of key meteorological books and journals published in the English language
- is the national archive for all meteorological books and reports published in Australia
- provides a high quality information service to staff of the Bureau of Meteorology, government agencies, universities, others with a particular interest in the science of meteorology, and to the general public.
Contacts
Loans: 03 9669 4572
Fax: 03 9669 4611
Email: Library@BoM.GOV.AU
Address:
National Meteorological Library
9th Floor, 700 Collins Street
Docklands VIC 3008
GPO Box 1289
Melbourne VIC 3001
Internet: www.bom.gov.au/library/
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
The Library at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) provides a service of major international significance in the subject areas of natural resource management, especially marine park management.
The Library attempts to provide a proactive and effective information service that supports the overall goal and aims of the Authority, and that meets the information needs of all clients. While the collection's emphasis is the sustainable management of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, other important subject areas are marine protected areas planning and management, environmental impact assessment, national park planning, coral reef ecology, environmental monitoring, environmental law and World Heritage.
The collection holds approximately 9000 monographs, 900 serial titles, and 200 videos, together with a very large cartographic collection of topographic maps, hydrographic charts, satellite images and aerial photography. Access is available to online databases such as DIALOG and INFORMIT online.
The Image Library at GBRMPA comprises a large collection of spectacular photography showing all aspects of life on the Great Barrier Reef. This collection includes over 70,000 colour and black and white images. This unique and comprehensive collection is available for external use as well as supporting the information needs of the Authority and its staff.
The REEF bibliographic database is jointly managed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and RMIT Publishing. REEF indexes material on or about the Great Barrier Reef, and is available online via INFORMIT Online Information Service. REEF is Australia's largest single bibliographic information source on the Great Barrier Reef.
Loans of monographs and videos and document delivery services are possible through the standard procedures and conditions listed in the Australian Interlending Code. Specific conditions apply to external use of the Authority's Image Library. The Library and Images Services is open to the public by appointment. Members of the public are welcome to visit, browse the collection and photocopy material (charges apply).
Contacts
Librarian: 07 4750 0801
ILLs: 07 4750 0701
Email: library@gbrmpa.gov.au (for library-related materials)
images@gbrmpa.gov.au (for image-related requests)
Fax: 07 4772 6093
Address:
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
PO Box 1379 (2-68 Flinders Street)
East Townsville QLD 4810
Australia
URL: www.gbrmpa.gov.au/corp_site/info_services/library
NUCOM Code: QGBR
