Abi Beatson, Author at National and State Libraries Australasia

Safe and responsible AI in Australia discussion paper

Joint submission from library and information service-related organisations to the safe and responsible AI in Australia discussion paper

Board meeting outcomes

NSLA members headed west for their July meeting and AGM this year, hosted by CEO and State Librarian Catherine Clark at the State Library of Western Australia in Perth.

Webinar: NED and legal deposit

Join us for an informative webinar as we explore the National edeposit (NED) service in Australia, and delve into the opportunities and challenges in collecting, preserving, and providing access to electronic publications within the evolving landscape of legal deposit.

First Nations first meeting in Darwin

Members of NSLA’s First Nations Advisory Group met for their inaugural meeting in Darwin in May, hosted by Library & Archives NT (LANT).

Webinar: How libraries in Australasia can work with the ILAB Missing Books Register

This webinar provides an introduction to the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers’ Missing Books Register.

Introducing NSLA’s new strategic plan: Leading together

In this Q&A session NSLA Chair and IFLA President-elect Vicki McDonald, and NSLA’s Executive Officer, Barbara Lemon, shares highlights of the 2023-2026 strategy, and insights into the emerging trends that shaped its direction.

Statement from the Chair: NSLA’s 50th anniversary

On 30 March 2023, the NSLA Board came together in Melbourne, fifty years to the day since the very first meeting of the State Librarians Council.

NSLA board welcomes new strategy

When members of the NSLA board came together in Melbourne last week for their first meeting of 2023, there was more than one milestone to be celebrated.

Funding secured for Trove’s treasures

NLSA libraries have welcomed the Australian Government’s recent announcement pledging $33 million over the next four years to maintain Trove, to be followed by ongoing annual funding for the platform. This is the first government commitment to ongoing, secure funding since Trove’s inception.

What is ChatGPT anyway?

The field of AI has periodically had breakthrough moments where gradual advancements in AI software combined with ever more powerful computers reaches a kind of threshold moment where all the small changes add up to something qualitatively different.