Catalogue description Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Arts and Libraries Branch and predecessors: Registered Files (AA, AAM and PL Series)

Registered files of the Department of Education and Science, Arts and Libraries Branch and predecessors relating to all matters pertaining to the arts, in particular the department's financial responsibilities.

Also included in this series are files relating to export control of artworks, archaeological materials and archives, the provision of public libraries, the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964, the Roberts Committee on public library services and the proposed introduction of public lending right.

Local Authority Public Libraries files are in ED 64

For records of the Working Party on Public Lending Right during 1971-1972 see ED 254

Department of Education and Science, Arts and Libraries Branch, 1970-1979

Department of Education and Science, Arts, International and External Relations Branch, 1966-1970

Department of Education and Science, External Relations Branch, 1964-1966

Department of Education and Science, Office of Arts and Libraries, 1979-1982

Ministry of Education, External Relations Branch, 1949-1964

Ministry of Education, Information and External Relations Branch, 1945-1949