Wednesday, 18 May 2016
The New South Wales state government has sacked almost 400 councillors from 42 councils and placed 19 new councils under administrators and interim general managers as part of its council...

Wednesday, 18 May 2016
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has acquired an inscribed copy of Nobel Laureate Patrick White’s first book, Thirteen Poems, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. White’s mother Ruth published around...

Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Kingston City Council has set aside funds in its 2016-17 draft budget for the planned $9m Westall Hub, comprising a library, child and health services and legal aid, in Clayton...

Wednesday, 11 May 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has released its federal election agenda, which includes calls for action on literacy, unlocking historic documents and government-funded research, and further contribution to...

Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Knox Council in Melbourne has proposed spending $800,000 on a temporary library to replace the current library, which will close to make way for an expanded Westfield Knox shopping centre,...

Thursday, 28 April 2016
The Victorian government has announced $23m in funding in the 2016/17 budget for a second State Library of Victoria (SLV) offsite storage facility in Ballarat. Currently, more than half of...

Thursday, 28 April 2016
Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has announced the new Wynnum Library will open on 24 May, reports the Courier Mail. The library, which was first announced in August 2014, is...

Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Morley Library in Perth will close on 28 April and reopen on 16 May at a nearby community centre to make way for the construction of an Aldi supermarket store,...

Wednesday, 13 April 2016
The State Library of NSW is offering the private sector access to its records and artefacts, in exchange for help digitising the collection, reports ITnews. A tender lodged on 7...

Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Australian trade publication the Urban Developer has named Noosa Shire Council’s Cooroy Library on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast as one of the ‘six coolest libraries’ in the world, reports the Sunshine...

Wednesday, 6 April 2016
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has sent a letter to the Broken Hill City Council in support of a proposal to move its local library into a...

Thursday, 31 March 2016
The NSW government will give Clarence Valley Council a $132,000 grant to fund a new van for its mobile library service, which councillors have criticised for not offering value for...

Thursday, 31 March 2016
Councillors for the City of Parramatta in Sydney have endorsed the design of a $50m glass building to house a new library, as well as council chambers, offices and a...

Wednesday, 23 March 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) advocacy arm Freedom of Access to Information and Resources (FAIR) has released the honours list from its ‘Great School Libraries’ campaign. The 213...

Wednesday, 23 March 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has renamed the Australian Library Journal as the Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association (JALIA), and will cease publication of the...

Thursday, 17 March 2016
Brisbane City Council libraries are inviting suppliers of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems to fit out their libraries to track books, magazines and electronic media, reports the Australian Financial Review....

Thursday, 17 March 2016
Councillors for the Clarence Valley in regional NSW have argued that the council’s $148,000 mobile library service is not providing value for money, reports the Daily Examiner. At a community...

Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Western Australia’s 232 public libraries will receive 62,000 fewer books over the next two years due to state government funding cuts, reports Perth’s Community News. Around $1.6m allocated to purchasing...

Wednesday, 9 March 2016
The Clarence Valley Council in regional NSW has prepared a report recommending its mobile library service be downsized and eventually transformed into a digital-only service, reports the Daily Examiner. The...

Wednesday, 2 March 2016
The City of Perth’s new $60m, seven-storey library on Hay Street in the CBD has opened to the public, reports the West Australian. The 3500 square metre library holds 16,000...

Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Audiobook publisher Wavesound has launched its ComicsPlus digital platform for libraries. The digital service hosts around 18,000 comics, manga and graphic novel titles from international publishers, including lead titles ‘Superman’,...

Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Author Thomas Keneally has delivered the first ebook to the National Library of Australia’s (NLA)  digital collection after new provisions in the Copyright Act 1968 came into effect on 17...