Introducing OCLC’s framework and tools to address the challenge of descriptive backlogs in archives and special collections.

NSLA members met in person for the first time in over a year! Here’s a summary of their discussion highlights.

Meet Maria Savvidis: librarian at the State Library of NSW, NSLA’s Oral History Network lead, and President of Oral History NSW.

NSLA and OCLC Research co-hosted a discussion session about the CARE Principles and how they may apply in the Australian context.

CEOs of NSLA libraries held their third online meeting of 2020 in late November to discuss responses to COVID-19, evaluating the first stage of the Culturally Safe Libraries Program, web archiving, and the future of LIS education.

NSLA’s incoming Chair, Dr Marie-Louise Ayres, and Deputy Chair, Vicki McDonald, got together for a chat about their long relationships with NSLA and their thoughts on the coming two-year term.

Anna Raunik is the Executive Director of Content and Client Services at the State Library of Queensland and the convenor of NSLA’s Heads of Collections advisory group. We asked her about her career, her passion for data and what she sees on the horizon for libraries working with technology.

Members convened online for their mid-year meeting, Discussions included our continuing responses to Covid-19, project funding, and finalising the NSLA strategic plan for 2020-2023.

For NSLA libraries, the COVID-19 pandemic has called for a common collecting effort unlike any in living memory.

The National edeposit service’s 100,000th deposit is a tribute to these times, now preserved in perpetuity.