The New South Wales government supports Information Rights Day and its aim to increase public awareness of information policy issues such as equitable access, access to government information, intellectual property and information literacy.
Information is the world's most rapidly appreciating resource.
During the last ten years new means of disseminating information have emerged such as publishing on disk and online, including the internet. Processes such as these continue to grow in importance and may indeed come to dominate the way we send and receive information. Since 1995 the government has worked to ensure greater access and equity in the delivery of cultural resources for New South Wales communities, responding to the needs of small rural communities as well as those in Sydney and larger regional centres. The, Government is committed to promoting, providing and maintaining library services and information services for the people of New South Wales through the State Library and through cooperation with local libraries and other library and information agencies. The State Library of NSW has established NSW.net in partnership with local government to provide the NSW public library network with high quality, high-speed access to the internet and online services, to facilitate the provision of free community access to the internet and online services and to provide the capacity for local content to be created and managed.