(5 June 2024) About the role: • Shape and drive the strategic vision for the City of Charles Sturt Library Service, actively championing innovation, collaboration and future-thinking approaches. • Use your strategic leadership capabilities to lead, inspire and mentor teams to achieve excellent outcomes and cultivate a community-centred culture. • Develop, deliver, and evaluate key…
(15 May 2024) The ARDC is pleased to announce the release of a National Persistent Identifier (PID) Roadmap website to support the implementation of the 2024 Australian National Persistent Identifier (PID) Strategy, launched in February this year by the ARDC. The Strategy is a coordinated, comprehensive and collaborative approach to accelerate Australian research and innovation through the universal…
The National Library of Australia is making it easier for Trove Partner organisations to provide inter-library loan and document copying services to their patrons in a way that is fast, efficient and reaches new audiences. (7 May 2024) From mid-2025, Trove Partners will be able to access a new national resource sharing service with all…
(8 May 2024) Asia-Pacific Member States newly inscribed 20 items during the 2024 cycle of the Memory of the World Regional Register at the 10th General Meeting of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP), which was convened from 7 to 8 May, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Genealogical records were…
(6 May 2024) The National Library of Australia has an ambitious mission: to assemble a complete collection of Australian published work. From romance novels to historical inquiry, the National Library is legislated to preserve every published word for future generations to find. The National Library recognises that this encompasses more than works by established…
(29 Apr 2024) Researchers, academics and PhD candidates are encouraged to apply for 9 philanthropically funded scholarships and 5 grants which open for applications on Monday 29 April 2024. ‘National Library Scholarships and Grants provide emerging researchers with an opportunity to deepen their research by working with original documents and unique collections. But they also…
(25 Apr 2024) An AI-generated soldier created by a library to inform Australians about the Anzac experience through an online chat has missed the mark after users discovered they could ask him just about anything and embody various characters. The State Library of Queensland launched the AI chatbot ‘Charlie the virtual veteran’ on Tuesday and invited Aussies to ask…
(22 Mar 2024) While libraries are relatively easy to come by, reading materials for Australians who are blind or vision impaired aren’t as commonly found. The library at Brisbane’s Braille house is the largest in the country and is celebrating its 125th birthday. But despite its age the library received its first bout of…
(25 Feb 2024) On 25 February 2024, the Hon Jason Clare MP, Minister for Education, released the Australian Universities Accord Final Report. The Australian Universities Accord Final Report contains 47 recommendations for Government consideration and aims to create a long-term reform plan for the higher education sector to meet Australia’s future skills needs. …
(28 Feb 2024) James Cook University’s Library is telling the tale of a first-of-its-kind expedition to investigate the Great Barrier Reef nearly 100 years ago. The story, Expedition to the Great Barrier Reef: The story of a ground-breaking scientific mission to Low Isles, Queensland in 1928-1929 and an overview of its legacies, is now available for…