The State Library of Western Australia is located within the building known as the Alexander Library Building, in the Cultural Centre of Perth, Western Australia.
Like all government authorities, the name changes over time, so the identity was for a long time 'Library and Information Service of Western Australia (LISWA)'. The name was changed in 2002 to the 'State Library of Western Australia'. The library is an agency within the Department of Culture and Arts.[1]
The building, and the various agencies are often conflated by users and authorities - the Alexander building houses the State Library of Western Australia, and it in turn has the J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History and shares the building with the State Records Office of Western Australia
The State Library of Western Australia's Public Library Services section supplies books, audio books, DVDs, CD-ROMs, etc, to the 67 [2] metropolitan libraries in the suburbs of Perth and the state's 160 [3] country libraries, all of which are managed by local-government authorities, sometimes in conjunction with other library service providers.
Each local authority is allocated a specific amount for State-Library-supplied items, which is then apportioned between libraries under its control. This funding is expended on adult fiction, adult non-fiction and junior publications listed in the Public Library Services' weekly advance order list (AOL). Local libraries also benefit from ratepayer funds and other income sources.
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