July 2020 NSLA meeting outcomes
Members convened online for their mid-year meeting, Discussions included our continuing responses to Covid-19, project funding, and finalising the NSLA strategic plan for 2020-2023.
Members convened online for their mid-year meeting, Discussions included our continuing responses to Covid-19, project funding, and finalising the NSLA strategic plan for 2020-2023.
For NSLA libraries, the COVID-19 pandemic has called for a common collecting effort unlike any in living memory.
The National edeposit service’s 100,000th deposit is a tribute to these times, now preserved in perpetuity.
NSLA members joined the millions around the world conducting their business on screen, to discuss issues including the COVID-19 pandemic, staff wellbeing, governance and logistics, and digital library services.
While most of us are still grappling with the magnitude of the sudden changes to our lives, the vital contribution of libraries to our communities has never been more evident.
NSLA CEOs set the program for 2020 at their November meeting, including a collection policy review and scoping for a collaborative web archiving system.
The last NSLA meeting for 2018, hosted by the State Library of South Australia, included business planning for the coming year.
Being a finalist in the ‘excellence in multi-agency partnership’ category at the Australian Government Digital Awards is the cherry on the NED cake.
The National edeposit service (NED) was formally launched in Canberra on Friday, 16 August, by the Hon. Paul Fletcher MP, Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts.
During NAIDOC Week, NSLA libraries and Trove volunteers added AUSTLANG Indigenous language codes to 8017 library records, representing 469 unique languages.
Members of National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) acknowledge the Traditional Custodians and Kaitiaki of the lands on which
our libraries do their daily work, preserving and sharing our collective cultural heritage.
