On Monday this week, NSLA Directors Vicki McDonald AM FALIA and Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon and Executive Director Simon Polson met with NSLA’s Patron, Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, at Admiralty House

NSLA is delighted to share that Matthew Burgess and Peter Brotherton from the State Library of NSW received the 2025 Angela Dappert Memorial Award for Digital Preservation Research & Practice at the 21st international digital preservation conference (iPRES) in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

This quarter has been busy for the NSLA Official RDA project.  Across September, the MAP Working Group co-leads held focus groups to gather feedback about the draft Metadata Application Profiles (MAPs).  The focus group members were split into two groups – those

Practicing digital preservation in one of the most isolated cities in the world has its challenges, but with the NSLA Digital Preservation Network and a generous bursary from the NSLA Strategic Communications Program I was able to attend the 21st

Australians are turning to their local libraries in record numbers, as cost-of-living pressures highlight the essential role of these community hubs. The Australian Public Libraries Statistical Report 2023–2024, released today by the National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) and the Australian

Samuel Beyer, NSLA Learning Network co-convenor, attended the National Education Summit in Brisbane on July 30–August 1. The summit featured two key conferences, ‘Capacity Building School Libraries’ and ‘AI in the Classroom,’ offering rich insights into the evolving role of

NSLA is pleased to introduce Vanessa Haines (National Library of New Zealand) as our new National edeposit (NED) Program Manager. In this role, Vanessa oversees the development and implementation of the NED Strategic Plan, and works with the Chair and

On Wednesday 11 June, 2025, Aimee Hay, Official RDA Project Manager, Melissa Parent, Metadata Application Profile Working Group Co-lead, and Colleen Hayes, Policy Statement Working Group Co-lead, presented a webinar for ORDAC about NSLA’s Official RDA Project to contextualise Official

Peta Harding (Executive Branch Manager, Libraries ACT) joined the NSLA Board in 2024, taking up leadership responsibility for the nine public library branches in that jurisdiction as well as the important ACT Heritage Library. In this interview, Peta takes the

We are celebrating the twentieth anniversary of The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa’s (NLNZ) contributions to the NSLA collaboration. After participating as an observer since 2003, NLNZ officially joined as a full member of the