Funding for the country's largest digitised archive has been announced, after months of the National Library of Australia calling for more financial support.
abc.net.au/news/funding-for-trove-announced-by-federal-government/102177488Funding for the country's largest digitised archive has been announced, after months of the National Library of Australia calling for more financial support.The federal government says the future of the National Library of Australia's database, Trove, has been secured
National institutions have been calling out for funding over the past few months after little funding increases under the Coalition In the May federal budget, $33 million dollars will be included for the NLA, plus a $9.2 million cash injection specifically for TroveThe NLA, which runs digital archive database Trove, will be separately allocated funding of more than $9 million — a move the government said would secure the future of the service for years to come.
"Whether you're using it to look up a bit of family history, or for academic research, Trove is an incredibly important part of our national cultural institutions." In its statement, the government said it was cleaning up the "mess" left behind by the former government, and that the essential services — such as Trove — had been neglected in previous budgets.
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