The Libraries Board of South Australia, which is responsible for the administration of the State Library of South Australia and the South Australian Public Library system, began a publishing program in 1962. As a contribution to the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, it planned to publish in facsimile editions some early and scarce works relating to South Australia in the collection of the State Library. The first works in the series received an enthusiastic response, and the Board expanded the scope of the series to include facsimiles of major source works of Australian history and exploration generally, in the Australian Facsimile Editions series. Books in the series, which were printed and bound within the State Library of South Australia, were published until 1979. From 1999 the Friends of the State Library of South Australia have published a similar series, called Australian Parliamentary Editions.
The Libraries Board also issues a range of bibliographies, including the Bibliographies of Australian Writers Series, and other research publications in the field of Australian studies.
