| State Library of Western Australia | |
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 State Library of Western Australia, Alexander Library Building | |
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| 31°56′57″S 115°51′38″E / 31.949057°S 115.860534°E | |
| Location | Perth, Western Australia |
| Type | State Library |
| Established | 1889 |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | Books, journals, newspapers, magazines, manuscripts, personal papers, maps, printed music, sound and music recordings, oral histories, films, photographs and ephemera |
| Size | 1.5 million items, 4,000 linear metres of archives[1] |
| Other information | |
| Director | Catherine Clark (CEO and State Librarian) |
| Website | slwa |
The State Library of Western Australia is a research, education, reference and public lending library located in the Perth Cultural Centre in Perth, Western Australia. It is a portfolio agency of the Western Australia Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, and facilitated by the Library Board of Western Australia.
The State Library has particular responsibility for collecting, preserving and digitising Western Australia's heritage materials. The J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History is the section of the Library dedicated to West Australian historical materials.
- ^ Annual Report 2011-2012 of the Library Board of Western Australia : 60th Annual Report of the Board (PDF), State Library of Western Australia, 2012, archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2013, retrieved 6 February 2013