NSLA board meets in Tasmania
Libraries Tasmania hosted the NSLA Board meeting in the beautiful city of Launceston during its ‘Tasmania Reads’ week.
Libraries Tasmania hosted the NSLA Board meeting in the beautiful city of Launceston during its ‘Tasmania Reads’ week.
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.
In this discussion, the heads of three Australian libraries considered the responsibilities of libraries both as providers: ensuring access to safe public places, community connections, services and resources; and as collectors: documenting our experiences of crisis or disaster for posterity.
NSLA’s submission in response to a proposed new national cultural policy for Australia contends that supporting the systems and human resources necessary to preserve and deliver Australian content is vital to supporting individual artists and creative workers.
NSLA’s submission to the parliamentary inquiry into Australia’s creative and cultural industries and institutions.
NSLA’s strategic plan for 2020-2023 focuses on three priorities for collaboration: shared digital systems; strengthening community identity; and, building cultural and intellectual capital.
NSLA welcomes the addition of social infrastructure to the audit and recommends consideration of a number of additional challenges to libraries in meeting users’ needs, including: consumer expectations, research infrastructure, reductions in capital funding, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and collections, volunteers.
NSLA’s inquiry submission calls for the recognition of libraries as trusted public institutions that support the collection and preservation of Australia’s diverse cultural heritage and strengthen civic engagement.
NSLA’s submission to the Australian Government’s consultation on the Data Sharing and Release Bill, which aims to balance sharing data held by government with appropriate risk management.
NSLA’s strategic plan for 2018-2020 describes how Australia’s National Library and eight state and territory libraries will work together to achieve shared goals.