Wednesday, 20 June 2012
The Gascoyne Revitalisation Plan has allocated over $5 million in funding to establish the Carnarvon Library and Arts Centre in Western Australia. The new centre, which received its funding approval...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Australia’s first 24-hour library is one of the City of Sydney’s ‘priority projects’ as part of its efforts to boost the city’s night-time economy. The council has proposed investigating Circular...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
The State Library of NSW has received $15.2 million in funding for the next financial year, announced in the NSW State budget on 12 June. Major investments for 2012-2013 include...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Burke and Wills collection to travel to Mansfield  The State Library of Victoria will bring original collection items from the Burke and Wills expedition to Mansfield in regional Victoria on 5...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
A Whitlam Prime Ministerial Library will be established on the grounds of the University of Western Sydney’s Parramatta campus, with a $7 million grant from the Gillard government. The Female...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Melbourne Library Service’s newest library, the Southbank Library, will open on 2 July. The site on 207-229 City Road, previously the JH Boyd Girls High School, has been transformed to...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Several Australian library professionals were among those recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Arts philanthropist and author Barbara Blackman, who has been an oral historian of the National Library...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
The Great Lakes Council’s Library Service has received yet another round of funding from the State Library of NSW, reports the Great Lakes Advocate. Library manager Chris Jones has been...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
US library takes anti-counterfeit measures At all 42 libraries in the Houston Public Library service, librarians are now examining notes larger than $20 using a special counterfeit detector pen. The...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Three awards designed to recognise the work of historians in increasing knowledge of Queensland history have been announced at the State Library of Queensland during Queensland Week (2-11 June). The...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Instead of running its annual mash-up competition, this year ‘Mix and Mash’, a site run by DigitalNZ, will help organisations and communities in New Zealand run their own open data and...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
National and State Libraries Australasia, the umbrella body for the major libraries in the region, has released its new four-year strategic plan.  The plan extends the program of work begun in...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
A refurbished library was reopened at the Rockhampton campus of Central Queensland University (CQU) on 6 June by Senator Chris Evans, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research. This...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
NLA hosts ‘Patrick White’s Record Collection’ On 17 June the National Library of Australia will host a special event called ‘Patrick White’s Record Collection’, which features soprano Greta Bradman and...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
The National Library of Australia celebrated what would have been Patrick White's 100th birthday on 28 May with a party featuring music, cake and special guests.   White, who died...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Senior US librarian charged with forgery The incoming Oregon state librarian, appointed last October, abruptly resigned last December after being investigated and charged with second-degree forgery for falsely claiming he...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Several schools are scrapping all their physical books in favour of creating digital libraries. According to The Australian, Henley High School in Adelaide donated its 10,000 collection to charity, turning...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
From May 27- June 3 several libraries across the country are celebrating National Reconciliation Week, which aims to build respectful, trusting and positive relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Two new libraries for South African school children A fundraising program run by the library team from Monash South Africa, a campus of Monash University, will see two new libraries...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Spotify launches in Australia Swedish music-streaming service Spotify launched on 22 May in Australia and New Zealand. Spotify provides free access to over 16 million tracks from computers, smartphones, tablets,...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
SLV makes nonfiction ebooks available The State Library of Victoria is making thousands of Australian nonfiction books available through the Electronic Book Library (EBL). Victorian registered library users can borrow...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Major US trade publisher Hachette Book Group (HBG), which has not made new ebooks available to libraries since April 2010, has created a pilot program to bring a selection of their...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Supporters around the world have joined the ‘open access movement’, following Harvard’s call to its academics to publish all scholarly material in open access journals. As previously reported by Bookseller+Publisher,...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Libraries and the 2012/13 Victorian State Budget The 2012/13 State Budget released on 1 May included $12.7 million over four years for the public libraries funding program – 3.4 million...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
On 21 May Arts Minister Simon Crean launched the National Year of Reading Public Library Membership Drive at Queanbeyan City Library. 'Almost half of all Australians are members of public...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The Suncorp Insurance Archive, which chronicles the insurance industry in Australia from 1833-1970, has been donated to the State Library of Victoria. Items enclosed in the archive include Australia’s earliest surviving...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has released a background paper on digital lending (elending) in libraries as part of its work on its 2011-2012 Key Initiatives....

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Twenty historical Australian video clips released online have attracted more than 1.5 million viewings in one month. The ABC archive clips were released under a Creative Commons licence to Wikipedia...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
The government has increased its funding to the National Library of Australia (NLA) in the federal budget announced last night. The NLA will receive an additional $700,000 in funding for...