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.
NSLA joins cultural organisations across Australia and a growing chorus of voices beyond the sector to ask for future funding to be secured for Trove.
The National edeposit service (NED), launched in 2019, has entered its next phase following the signing of a new Deed of Agreement by member library leaders.
NSLA’s first AGM as an incorporated association was held at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, the National Library of New Zealand.
NSLA, ALIA, CAUL, CAVAL and AIATSIS are collaborating to develop and disseminate sector-wide guidelines that will result in greater confidence and consistency in description of First Nations collections by libraries and publishers across Australia.
We asked Catherine Clark, CEO and State Librarian at the State Library of Western Australia, about making the move from the tertiary sector and where she sees the library in 5 years’ time.
First Nations collections, new recruits and a new look for NSLA.
Members of National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) acknowledge the Traditional Custodians and Kaitiaki of the lands on which
our libraries do their daily work, preserving and sharing our collective cultural heritage.
