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Public Library Survey review: second consultation paper

The second consultation paper for the joint Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and NSLA review of the Australian Public Library Survey.Public libraries are invited to comment on the consultation paper below by 19 April 2013.

NSLA Storage Planning Paper

Discussion paper from the NSLA Storage Management Group on current and future issues in storage planning for NSLA libraries.

Bridging the Gap: Library digital collections, innovation and the user

Bridging the Gap: Library digital collections, innovation and the user, by Matthew Brack

Yes, The Library of Congress Has Video Games: An Interview with David Gibson

Library of Congress blog entry (26 September 2012) about acquiring and preserving video games.

Position statements, 2009-11

Position statements developed by Re-imagining Libraries projects between 2009 and 2011.Note: rich text file (RTF) versions of each document are listed below the PDFs.

Digitisation research report

September 2011

Strategic and operational issues for collaborative web archiving in Australia

Report to NSLA, November 2010.

Libraries in the digital environment

Describes the body of work for libraries in relation to the digital environment, and NSLA's aspirations for the national digital agenda. (August 2006)

Defining stack management

June 2004

Cooperation and influence: history and priorities of the Council of Australian State Libraries

This article describes how the Council of Australian State Libraries (as NSLA was formerly known) has expanded from an initial focus on lobbying Commonwealth Government for funding to supporting a wide range of collaborative initiatives between member libraries and with other organisations in the cultural sector. (Published in Australian Academic and Research Libraries, Vol. 34, No.4, December 2003)

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