Educational Lending Right (ELR) is an Australian cultural program administered by the Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. ELR has two objectives:

  • to make payments to Australian creators (authors, illustrators, translators, compilers and editors) and publishers on the basis that income is lost from the availability of their books in educational lending libraries; and
  • to support the enrichment of Australian culture by encouraging the growth and development of Australian writing and publishing.
    ELR complements the existing Public Lending Right (PLR) program for books held in public lending libraries.

Curriculum Corporation, through its SCIS Unit undertakes the annual school library survey on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts .SCIS is responsible for promotion of the survey, for distribution of survey to schools, and collection of results. At the conclusion of each survey, Curriculum Corporation provides a detailed report covering the methodology, results and recommendations. An annual summary report for the last survey period is publicly available. Learn more...

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