Final keynote announcement

The program committee is absolutely delighted to share with you the eighth and final keynote Professor Julian Thomas! Julian will be enchanting our delegates with a talk on digital inequality in Australia. 

Digital inequality in Australia

Profes...

Your definitive guide to Australia’s best writing.

Last week the Wheeler Centre announced the shortlisting for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2017.  It’s a list of 21 exceptional works of fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry and young adult writing, published in...

The Center for the Future of Libraries  (American Library Association) has just announced an international fellowship opportunity :

http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/future/engage/fellowship

They are actively seeking international applicants

Last Thursday we launched a new report Adult Literacy – Victorian public libraries in action at a seminar and roundtable discussion at the State Library.  All hard copies of the report were taken by attendees. We will print more and post at least one to every Victorian...

Call for abstracts now open!

The committee organising the ALIA National Library and Information Technicians’ Symposium 2017, being held at ACU North Sydney, 27-29 September 2017, now invites potential presenters to submit abstracts for papers around the theme, Bridge to...

Published by Express Media, Voiceworks is Australia’s premier youth literary journal, featuring exciting new poetry, fiction, articles, comics and visual artwork by people under 25. Each issue of the journal is produced by an Editor and Designer, together with a volunt...

SRC update

Summer is fast approaching and so is the Summer Reading Club! With only two weeks to go, are you ready? 

The information in this update is provided to assist you with your plotting and planning for your library's Summer Reading Club — soon to be filled with he...

The Australian Ballet Education Program would love to introduce you to our exciting new dance literacy workshop program Dancing Story.

Dancing Story is a workshop for children aged 3– 5 years (pre-school). This interactive workshop has been created for libraries, kinder...

The winners of this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced:

https://www.arts.gov.au/pm-literary-awards/current-awards

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From 5 December 2016, the Justice and Regulation department will introduce: 

New proof of identity (POI) requirements for all Check applicants
The list of acceptable POI documents will expand, adding many commonly held cards and documents. Documents will be cl...