Guidelines

ILRS code charges are normally increased automatically by CPI each year from 1 July. No increase has been applied for 2026-27 while service types and prices are reviewed.

This document replaces Australian Interlibrary Resource Sharing (ILRS) Code 2025 | ALIA Library

The Interlibrary Resource Sharing (ILRS) Code sets out best practice standards for Australian libraries providing Resource sharing services. It is designed to benefit Australian libraries and their users by providing greater predictability, consistency, and flexibility in obtaining materials.

In this submission, ALIA supports the goals of the review: a practical renewal of the classification framework rather than a wholesale redesign, with the aim of achieving a simpler and more consistent approach across all media.

ALIA also strongly supports the conclusions drawn from the stakeholder consultation – that classification decisions should be grounded in evidence of harm rather than morality; that clearer signposts should be provided for the most harmful content; and that guidelines should be made more accessible with streamlined processes.

The ILRS Code has been endorsed by the Australia Library Peak bodies including Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA), the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and the National Library of Australia.

The ILRS Code has been endorsed by the Australia Library Peak bodies including Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), National and State Libraries Australia (NSLA), the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and the National Library of Australia.

The Guidelines for Australian Health Libraries (the Guidelines), provide a framework for health librarians to deliver the best possible health library and information services to their clients. 

The fifth edition of the Guidelines builds on the solid base of previous versions, retaining the same four broad Guideline Areas, divided into more specific criteria against which individual libraries may be assessed. This edition contains a number of important revisions and improvements.

These guidelines are intended to assist principals, school administrators and teacher librarians in the appropriate allocation of time enables teacher librarians to effectively deliver of school library services and programmes.

As part of the Interlibrary Resource Sharing Code (ILRS) code review the ALIA ILL Advisory Committee revises its Best Practice Guidelines in 2019. The Best Practice Guidelines are intended to work with the ILRS Code. They provide further information on streamlining work practices or ensuring good communication with resource sharing partners.

This document is the 2021 edition of the APLA-ALIA Standards and Guidelines for Australian Public Libraries.

This document replaces "APLA-ALIA Standards and Guidelines for Australian Public Libraries (December 2020)".

In August 2020 the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) on behalf of the Australian Public Library Alliance (APLA) engaged I & J Management Services Pty. Ltd. to update the 2016 Guidelines, Standards and Outcome Measures for Australian Public Libraries. The purpose of the project was to establish national standards and guidelines for public libraries that reflect the evolving role of contemporary public libraries and to better recognise the different circumstances in the eight states and territories, allowing for appropriate local interpretation.