PLVN Great Public Library Tour 5

Poland, Germany& Denmark

19 August - 9 September 2017

Join us at IFLA WLIC in Wroclaw, Poland and then visit some of Germany's best libraries and spend a day at the amazing DOKK1 in Aarhus, Denmark.

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More than Green Sustainability of practice - Public Libraries & the 2030 United Nations Agenda

The Public Libraries Section  in partnership with Environmental Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group (ENSULIB) invites you to submit a program proposal for its...

The rise in usage of electronic resources amongst students and researchers cannot be overstated. Yet despite this, people still associate the library with books and not in relation to online resources. This is according to a new compilation from OCLC Research, The Libr...

Hearty congratulations to Jan for this very well deserved honour in the Australia Day Honours Awards. 

Member (AM) in the General Division: 

Mrs Jan RICHARDS Orange NSW 2800 For significant service to library and information management through executive roles with p...

by Marshall Breeding, January 25, 2017.

This tenth edition of the International Survey of Library Automation aims to provide a candid glimpse into the effectiveness of strategic library technology systems from the perspective of the libraries which use them for their da...

This list is derived from the SWIFT Libraries database. For 2016, the top 10 adult books borrowed are all fiction, dominated by two Lee Child novels (Make Me and Personal) at first and third, with Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train coming in second. Meanwhile on the...

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I am thrilled to share the news of a $13 million funding boost for the Library announced today by the Premier of Victoria to support the Library’s Vision 2020 redevelopment project.

The John and Myriam Wylie Foundation has donated $8 million to reopen the Library’s Russ...

Please find attached the Call for Abstracts and Submission form for our third annual public libraries mini-conference, which will be held at the State Library on 20 April 2017.

Our theme is Transforming Public Libraries.  It refers to both the power of public libraries...

Each year public libraries throughout the world join together to submit titles for consideration in the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the world's richest literary prizes with a €100,000 prize (AUD $142,000).

Victorians have done well in t...