3.1 Legal deposit
The Libraries Act 1984 requires a copy of everything published in Tasmania to be deposited in the State Library.
This includes any ‘book, periodical, newspaper, printed matter, map, plan, music, manuscript, picture, print, motion picture, sound recording, photographic negative or print, microphotograph, video recording, and any other matter or thing whereby words, sounds, or images are recorded or reproduced’.
Following legal advice obtained by National and State Libraries Australia in 2019, Libraries Tasmania adopted a definition of ‘published’ as ‘made available to the public with the authority of the publisher’.