Category: Resources

Annual reports

An annual summary of NSLA’s work, membership and financial status.

Indigenous cultural competency principles

These shared principles support NSLA libraries to develop practical and sustainable Indigenous cultural competency strategies appropriate to their community context and workforce requirements.

Working with Community

Guidelines to help the library profession to build mutually beneficial relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities, and to assist library staff engaging with communities to extend and enhance their services and collections.

Position statement: Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP)

NSLA member libraries acknowledge their collective, individual and moral responsibilities to ensure that management and access to First Nations collection materials is culturally informed and respectful, including recognition and protection of the ongoing, communal nature of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) rights.

Oral history guidelines

Guidelines for people who want to create or donate oral history recordings to NSLA libraries’ collections.