Thursday, 5 November 2015
Scottish Poetry Library reopens after £500,000 revamp The Scottish Poetry Library, which holds the largest open-access collection of Scottish poetry in the world, has re-opened in Edinburgh following a £500,000...

Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Birmingham library to undergo £2.1m refurbishment Two years after opening, the £188m (A$403m) Library of Birmingham in the UK will renovate its first floor at a cost of £2.1m (A$4.5m)...

Wednesday, 28 October 2015
The $45.5m Geelong Library and Heritage Centre in Victoria will open on Saturday 21 November with a weekend of celebrations. The five-floor library includes a print and digital ‘news lounge’,...

Wednesday, 28 October 2015
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has released a report to help Victorian public libraries improve literacy in the community. Reading and Literacy for All: A Strategic Framework for Victorian...

Wednesday, 28 October 2015
The University of Sydney has become the first university in the southern hemisphere to join the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) Library Partnership. The OLH is ‘dedicated to publishing open...

Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Court rules in favour of Google book-scanning after decade-long dispute In the US, a federal appeals court has ruled that Google has not violated copyright laws by digitising more than...

Wednesday, 21 October 2015
The Tweed Shire Council in NSW’s Northern Rivers region has launched the region’s first seed library at Murwillumbah Library, reports Echo Netdaily. The seed library enables residents to ‘borrow’ seeds...

Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Freedom of Access to Information and Resources (FAIR), the advocacy arm of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), is calling for nominations for outstanding Australian school libraries as part...

Wednesday, 21 October 2015
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has launched a Digital Classroom designed to bring the library’s collection into Australian schools. The new sub-site of the NLA website features videos, images,...

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Wifi hotspot library loans a first for Canada In Canada, the central branch of the Kitchener Public Library in Ontario has launched a pilot program to loan out WiFi hotspot...

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
The State Library of Victoria’s (SLV) annual report for 2014-15 has been released. Key figures for the period include: 1,781,690 onsite visits 3,441,756 online visits 49,147 reference queries handled by...

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Softlink is calling for school libraries to participate in its sixth annual School Library Survey, which will include New Zealand schools for the first time. Teacher-librarians and library staff across...

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
The University of Sydney has announced it will install book vending machines for high-rotation titles on its campus, describing them as ‘the first of their kind in New South Wales’....

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
The Geelong Regional Library Corporation in Victoria will expand its ebook collection by 93% and its digital audiobook collection by 34% in response to a significant increase in digital loans...

Wednesday, 7 October 2015
Argentina proposes 100-year extension on copyright for photography Copyright for photographic works may be extended from 20 years after publication to 70 years after the photographer’s death—an extension of an...

Wednesday, 7 October 2015
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced the nine recipients of its 2016 fellowships. The fellowships, which are open to both emerging and established Australian and international scholars, were...

Wednesday, 7 October 2015
Due to popular demand, Grafton and Maclean libraries in regional NSW will be holding more study nights in the lead-up to the HSC, reports the Daily Examiner. The study nights...

Wednesday, 7 October 2015
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) is calling for applications for its new $30,000 Digital Fellowship. The DX Lab Fellowship is the first of its kind to be...

Wednesday, 30 September 2015
The National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) has released its annual Australian Public Libraries Statistical Report for the period 2013-2014. The report found that total expenditure on public libraries increased...

Wednesday, 30 September 2015
Mobile access to US libraries on the rise In the US, a new survey from the Pew Research Centre has found that while physical library visits are decreasing, mobile access...

Wednesday, 23 September 2015
National Library of Scotland to put eight million collection items onlineDescribed as one of the biggest programs of its kind in Europe, the National Library of Scotland is planning to...

Wednesday, 23 September 2015
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has awarded its 2015 research grant to Heather Brown, assistant director of Paper and Books at South Australia’s conservation program Artlab Australia.Brown will...

Wednesday, 23 September 2015
In Western Australia, Broome Public Library has introduced a ‘Build up Lego Club’ to boost literacy and numeracy skills among children, reports ABC News.Library technician and club coordinator Ian McLean...

Wednesday, 23 September 2015
In Queensland, Sunshine Coast Council’s new mobile library service is equipped with an Australian first—a self-service station that allows borrowers to checkout their own library items, reports My Sunshine Coast....

Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Whyalla Public Library has launched a free English Conversation program for people learning English as a second language, reports Whyalla News.City librarian Catherine McIntyre said the program was ‘ideal for...

Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Vodafone Romania expands digital books initiative to schoolsIn Romania, Vodafone is delivering its Digital Public Library to 300 schools via wallpaper resembling bookshelves, reports Developing Telecoms. Books can be downloaded...

Wednesday, 16 September 2015
The State Library of Victoria has received $10m from the Ian Potter Foundation as a contribution to the refurbishment and reopening of Queen’s Hall, which housed Melbourne’s first public library,...

Wednesday, 9 September 2015
National Library of Ireland hit by funding cutsThe latest annual review of the National Library of Ireland (NLI) has found it is operating with a third of the staffing resources...

Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Judy Atkinson, coordinator of Coffs Harbour Children’s and Youth Services in NSW, has been named the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) Library Technician of the Year, reports the Coffs...

Wednesday, 9 September 2015
University of Southern Queensland (USQ) academic Helen Partridge has been awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grant to study ‘the role of libraries as a service provider in a...