These shared principles support NSLA libraries to develop practical and sustainable Indigenous cultural competency strategies appropriate to their community context and workforce requirements.
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.
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.
As a means of maintaining momentum after the formal Culturally Safe Libraries Program, NSLA members in Australia agreed to run an Indigenous cultural capability audit for five years from 2021.
As custodians of a large volume of collection materials relating to and created by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, languages and cultures, NSLA’s Australian member libraries acknowledge our collective, individual and moral responsibilities to ensure that management and access is culturally informed and respectful. NSLA libraries support the creation of First Nations-led stand-alone legislation to protect ICIP and IK.
NSLA libraries are committed to supporting the Tandanya Adelaide Declaration’s themes: knowledge authorities, property and ownership, recognition and identity, research and access, and self-determination.
This webinar considered how OCLC Research’s Reimagine Descriptive Workflows community agenda and framework of guidance might be used by Australasian libraries and archives to address harm caused by metadata and collection description practices.
A project in four NSLA libraries to address a lack of data about the nature, description and discoverability of contemporary Indigenous collections in NSLA libraries.
NSLA and ALIA’s joint submission calls on the federal government to work with the national public library network and provide targeted investment in connectivity, a new funding stream for digital programs and, services and skills training for staff working in remote library locations.
NSLA libraries are committed to working in accordance with nationally and internationally recognised protocols to ensure that member libraries provide culturally safe public spaces for all First Nations peoples, whether they are visitors or staff.
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.
