National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) together with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) have released an updated edition of the Right Wrongs website: abc.net.au/rightwrongs/
On the International Day of Democracy 2023, in a global context of political division and social unrest, National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) calls attention to the continuing role of libraries as free, public spaces for discovery and access to information, in person and online.
A webinar designed for those seeking a fundamental understanding of the current scope of AI technologies being used in NSLA libraries, and of next-generation AI technologies that need to be considered to support future library work.
NSLA members headed west for their July meeting and AGM this year, hosted by CEO and State Librarian Catherine Clark at the State Library of Western Australia in Perth.
Members of NSLA’s First Nations Advisory Group met for their inaugural meeting in Darwin in May, hosted by Library & Archives NT (LANT).
In this Q&A session NSLA Chair and IFLA President-elect Vicki McDonald, and NSLA’s Executive Officer, Barbara Lemon, shares highlights of the 2023-2026 strategy, and insights into the emerging trends that shaped its direction.
On 30 March 2023, the NSLA Board came together in Melbourne, fifty years to the day since the very first meeting of the State Librarians Council.
When members of the NSLA board came together in Melbourne last week for their first meeting of 2023, there was more than one milestone to be celebrated.
NLSA libraries have welcomed the Australian Government’s recent announcement pledging $33 million over the next four years to maintain Trove, to be followed by ongoing annual funding for the platform. This is the first government commitment to ongoing, secure funding since Trove’s inception.
The field of AI has periodically had breakthrough moments where gradual advancements in AI software combined with ever more powerful computers reaches a kind of threshold moment where all the small changes add up to something qualitatively different.
