NSLA Board meets in Tasmania
Libraries Tasmania hosted the NSLA Board meeting in the beautiful city of Launceston during its ‘Tasmania Reads’ week.
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Libraries Tasmania hosted the NSLA Board meeting in the beautiful city of Launceston during its ‘Tasmania Reads’ week.
An annual summary of NSLA’s work, membership and financial status.
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.
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.
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.
