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Consumer Reports (CR), formerly Consumers Union (CU), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy.
The State Library of New South Wales, along with New South Wales Parliamentary Library and University of Sydney Library are entitled to "receive a copy of every book first published in New South Wales within two months of publication. 'Book' is defined in the Act as any book, newspaper, pamphlet, leaflet, music, map, chart or plan separately ...
Bowerstown offices of Consumers' Research, built 1934–35. In 1927 Schlink and Chase, encouraged by the public response to the publishing of their book Your Money's Worth, solicited financial, editorial, and technical support from patrons of other activist magazines to support the creation of an organization to offer consumers the unbiased services of "an economist, a scientist, an accountant ...
The public libraries in New South Wales are operated by local councils, in some cases cooperatively as "regional libraries". [9] There are 89 library services which operate more than 350 public libraries across the state. [10] All NSW libraries are governed by the Library Act 1939 [11] and managed financially by the State Library of New South ...
Bladen was transferred to the Public Library of New South Wales in 1896 (State Library of NSW) where he continued the work until the Records project ceased in 1902 for financial reasons. [6] Bladen was appointed head of the Library’s lending branch before being appointed Principal Librarian from 1907-1912.
The Department of Customer Service is a department of the New South Wales Government that functions as a service provider to support sustainable government finances, major public works and maintenance programs, government procurement, information and communications technology, corporate and shared services, consumer protection, and land and property administration of the government in New ...
Consumer Reports was established in 1936 to advance the Consumer Movement through product testing and advocating for consumer rights. Today the organization employs 500 people to conduct experiments at its laboratories, report the results, do journalism on consumer issues, and present the consumer perspective in policy discussions.
The Library Council of New South Wales is the governing body of the State Library of New South Wales, as described in The Library Act 1939 (NSW). [1] The Library Council also has specific responsibilities to monitor the operation of public libraries in NSW which includes inspections and the payment of financial subsidies.