Tuesday, 14 August 2012
A number of Australian libraries have been shortlisted for the 2012 Museums Australia Multimedia & Publication Design Awards. The annual awards recognise excellence in design and communication in the museum...

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
SLV team named Innovator of the Month The Learning Services team at the State Library of Victoria (SLV) has been named ‘Innovator of the Month’ by the Victorian Government’s Department...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Total expenditure on public libraries in Australia has grown by 26% since 2006, according to the 2010-2011 Australian Public Library Statistical Report, released last month. According to the report, which...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Chris Szekely, chief librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, won two awards at the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children’s Book Awards, held in Wellington on...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
The Federal Government has allocated funding from its Regional Development Australia Fund (RDAF) to library projects in Benalla, Dandenong and Melton, all in Victoria. Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development,...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
WritersWA has announced it has been ‘able to reinstate our popular Writers on the Road program for 2012’ as a special initiative of the National Year of Reading, with funding...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Christchurch City Council in New Zealand has closed the South Library and Beckenham Service Centre after receiving the results of an engineering evaluation which concluded that the building which...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Victorian Government has continued to allocate funds to rebuild and renovate the state’s libraries as part of its Living Libraries Infrastructure Program, worth $17.2 million over four years. Several...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Auckland Libraries has announced the launch of a new program aimed at attracting teenagers to the city’s libraries. The program, called ‘Fuse’, is a series of challenges, events and activities in...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
The Victorian government announced on 4 July that it would provide $300,000 towards the $461,000 it will cost to assist in the relocation of Wonthaggi Library to a new site....

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Majority of funding restored to New York libraries The New York City budget for fiscal year 2013 was approved on 28 June, and included the restoration of US$89.5 million (approximately...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
The State Library of Victoria has acquired two Persian manuscripts following a successful public appeal to assist with the purchase. The appeal to raise $100,000 was launched to coincide with...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
‘The first outdoor library in the southern hemisphere’ was launched on 5 July at the Tungamah Hotel on behalf of the Goulburn Valley Regional Library Corporation (GVRLC). The Victorian Minister...

Tuesday, 3 July 2012
The City of Sydney is investing $25 million in a new library for the Green Square Town Centre development in southern Sydney. The 3000 sq metre library, to be located...

Tuesday, 3 July 2012
The diary of a WWI soldier was donated to the NSW State Library this week. Gunner Norman Pearce was from the town of Parkes, NSW, and was a surveyor’s assistant...

Tuesday, 3 July 2012
As of 1 July, all outstanding fines for ACT library members have been removed, and library members will no longer be fined for items up to 28 days overdue, Libraries...

Tuesday, 3 July 2012
The State Library of Queensland has created a new website called Design Online to promote the exchange of ideas about design in the Asia Pacific region. Members of the design industry,...

Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Sydney’s Mosman library has been granted $30,000 from the NSW state government to create an online resource for collecting and displaying information about the wartime experiences of local service people...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Penguin has launched a pilot program in the US to lend its ebooks through libraries, reports Publishers Weekly. Penguin has partnered with US technology company 3M (using its cloud library)...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Several funding announcements have been made in the past week as part of the second round of funding for the Victorian Government’s Living Libraries Infrastructure Program, worth $17.2 million over...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Ryan Stokes, son of businessman Kerry Stokes, has been appointed chair of the National Library of Australia Council. Stokes’ three-year appointment, which begins in July this year, was announced by...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Browser-based ebook reader OverDrive Read will be offered to schools, libraries and organisations in Australia and the UK by Softlink, as part of its distribution agreement with OverDrive. OverDrive Read is...

Tuesday, 26 June 2012
The recipients of the 2012 State Library of Victoria creative fellowships have been announced. Recipients of $12,500 for three months’ study are: Angela Cavalieri, who will produce a series of...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Several German, Italian and Estonian community newspapers, published in Australia, are now available online through the National Library of Australia’s Trove discovery service. Under the library’s Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program,...