NIS and the MG Lay Library (ARRB)

Our aim
Founded in 1962, ARRB’s Library today takes a lead role in national and international land transport information provision and knowledge sharing.

The ARRB Library works to support an informed land transport community, providing leadership and coordination in information provision across all sectors, within Australia and internationally.

Our support and the National Interest Services (NIS) program
The land transport information dissemination and coordination initiatives of National Interest Services (NIS) program are coordinated by the ARRB Library. NIS is financially supported by the following valued members:

– Federal Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development
– Territory and Municipal Services Directorate, Australian Capital Territory
– Roads and Maritime Services, New South Wales
– Department of Transport, Northern Territory
– Department of Transport and Main Roads, Queensland
– Main Roads Western Australia
– Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, South Australia
– Department of State Growth, Tasmania
– VicRoads, Victoria

Your access
NIS supports content provision for the Australian Transport Index (ATRI). This database of information land transport publications:

– contains over 175,000 records and grows by over 300 records a month
– is designed to provide users with Australian and New Zealand land transport publication details while also including information on relevant international material
– is indexed using a specialist land transport-specific thesaurus created and regularly reviewed and updated by the Library
– is freely available online as part of the TRID database, which contains over 1 million records