Editing National Library of Australia (section)

==History and foundation==
In 1901 the [[Parliamentary Library of Australia|Commonwealth Parliament Library]]<ref name=libaus>{{cite web | title=Commonwealth National Library (Australia) – Full record view | website=Libraries Australia Search | url=https://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/search/display?dbid=auth&id=36531066 | access-date=2 May 2020}}</ref> was established to serve the [[Federation of Australia|newly formed Federal Parliament of Australia]]. From its inception the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library was driven to development of a truly national collection. In 1907 the Joint Parliamentary Library Committee under the Chairmanship of the Speaker, Sir [[Frederick William Holder]] defined the objective of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library in the following words:<ref name=burmester>{{Cite web|title=History of the National Library collections until 1980 (extract from Burmester) {{!}} National Library of Australia|url=https://www.nla.gov.au/history-of-the-collections/burmester-extract|website=nla.gov.au|access-date=2020-05-02}}</ref>

<blockquote>The Library Committee is keeping before it the ideal of building up, for the time when Parliament shall be established in the Federal Capital, a great Public Library on the lines of the world-famed [[Library of Congress]] at Washington; such a library, indeed, as shall be worthy of the Australian Nation; the home of the literature, not of a State, or of a period, but of the world, and of all time.
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From 1923, two forms of name were used concurrently: Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, to designate the national and parliamentary collections respectively.<ref name=libaus/>

In 1957 the Paton Committee recommended a National Library as an independent [[statutory body]].<ref name=henderson/>

In 1960 the National Library of Australia was created<ref name=libaus/> by the ''National Library Act 1960'',<ref>{{cite web | title=National Library Act 1960 | website=Federal Register of Legislation | date=29 April 2011 | url=https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2011C00245 | access-date=2 May 2020}}</ref> and each library became a separate entity.<ref name=libaus/>