Oral history guidelines
Guidelines for people who want to create or donate oral history recordings to NSLA libraries’ collections.
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Guidelines for people who want to create or donate oral history recordings to NSLA libraries’ collections.
The Australian public libraries statistical report 2021-2022 provides insight into the activities and usage of Australia’s 1706 public library service points.
NSLA’s joint submission with ALIA to the Australian Government’s inquiry into the influence of international digital platforms included recommendations about protection measures, increased transparency and development of a national media literacy strategy.
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.
In this panel session recorded live at State Library Victoria, NSLA board members consider the keys to NSLA’s success as a collaboration, and what’s next for the organisation in its 50th year.
NSLA libraries’ response to the Australian Copyright Enforcement Review 2023 supports an enforcement scheme that recognises the importance of providing legitimate means of accessing and using material.
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, 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.
As a means of maintaining momentum after the formal Culturally Safe Libraries Program, NSLA members in Australia agreed to run an Indigenous cultural capability audit for five years from 2021.
