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- Nominations open for the Australian Library Design Awards 2024
The Australian Library Design Awards showcase the best in contemporary library interiors and exteriors in Australia, and celebrate the investment in libraries made by our nation’s institutions, corporations, local, state and territory governments. They have been developed in the context of other competitions internationally, including the American Institute of Architects/American Library Association Library Building Awards and the International Federation of Library Association Public Library of… - Trove Planned Maintenance: Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th December
The National Library of Australia is undertaking planned maintenance of its online services from 6pm AEDT Saturday 9 December until 12pm AEDT Sunday 10 December. During this time the following online Partner services will be unavailable: Trove LA Search LA Admin Cataloguing client Australian National Bibliographic Database (Libraries Australia) search Metadata harvesting (all scheduled metadata harvesting activities will be paused during the planned maintenance) Trove… - Midsumma Pride March 2024 call out
The end of the year is fast approaching which means Midsumma and the annual Pride March is just around the corner! The march is happening on Sunday 4 February 2024. PLV Pride is once again registered as a contingent in the march. Let’s make it bigger and better than ever! It’s been a tumultuous year for libraries, with regular queer-focused events being cancelled across the… - National Science Week 2024 Grants Now Open
Individuals and organisations interested in delivering science engagement activities during National Science Week in 2024 (10 – 18 August) can apply for grants between $2,000 and $20,000. Activities can include: in-person activities such as workshops, fairs and theatre online activities with two-way audience participation do-it-yourself (DIY) activities virtual tours other events and activities. National Science Week is Australia’s annual celebration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics… - Interested in submitting a proposal to VALA2024? Get some help here.
Seen the call for submissions for VALA2024, but don’t know if it’s for you? We know that putting together a submission may be daunting, we can help! VALA is running two free webinars that aim to help you pull together your great tech experience into a proposal for VALA2024. We are even doing each webinar twice to ensure you can attend at least once. Join… - Annual Public Lending Right Survey 2023
Public Libraries Victoria has agreed to participate in this year’s PLR survey. More information is included below from PLR, but if you have any questions, please email michelle.mclean@plv.org.au. ——————————————————————————————————— PLR, as you know, is an Australian Government program which makes payments to creators and publishers on the basis that income is lost from the availability of their books in public lending libraries. Payments are based… - descript: opportunity to host exhibition
‘Dèscript’ is a body of work celebrating social connection through vintage texts and paint, consisting of 50 small paintings on vintage book covers, three of which are Braille novels. Each painting is paired with a personal story from everyday people including migrants, scientists, a funeral director, a DJ, a plumber, an activist, a paramedic and a life model. Artist Jennifer Fyfe uses the ‘alla prima’… - First Nations collection description guidelines for the library sector
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