Australia: “Funding Pledge Saves National Library’s Trove From Closure Threat”

From The Sydney Morning Herald:

The National Library of Australia’s beloved online portal Trove has been saved from the threat of imminent closure after a cash injection of $33 million from the Albanese government.

The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age revealed last year the archive’s funding was due to expire at the end of June, meaning the portal was at risk of being shut down.

Trove is the single point of entry to the collections of hundreds of Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries and archives. The community platform attracts 22 million visits each year and includes the definitive collection of digitised Australian newspapers.

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The government will provide the library with $33 million over four years in the May federal budget, as well as $9.2 million in indexed ongoing annual funding.

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