National and State Libraries Australia
National and State Libraries Australia (NSLA), formerly National and State Libraries Australasia, is the
NLSA also collaborates with partner organisations such as the Australian Research Council on research and development projects. One of its latest major completed projects is the development of the National edeposit service (NED), "an online service for the deposit, archiving, management, discovery and delivery of published electronic material across Australia", which was formally launched in August 2019.
History
State librarians from
From 1992, the organisation became the Council of Australian State Libraries (CASL). During this time, many projects were developed, such as the Distributed National Collection agreement and the AskNow online virtual reference service. With the National Library of New Zealand attending first as an observer and then a member, in 2005, it decided on a change of name to reflect this, becoming National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA). The first NSLA meeting was held at the State Library of Western Australia in September 2006.[1]
At the November 2017 meeting, NSLA developed a new
Description
The NSLA is a national organisation, whose membership consists of the directors or CEOs of the state libraries and the Director-General of the National Library of Australia.[2] It manages a wide range of collaborative initiatives among its member libraries and with other organisations.[1] It aims to improve library services throughout its member libraries by collaboration, and also contributes to public policy affecting the library sector. The Executive Officer and Program Coordinator of the organisation are based at State Library Victoria.[3]
Research, alliances and projects
One of NSLA's ongoing projects is collecting, collating and making accessible a range of statistics pertaining to public library services in Australia, which are available on its website dating back to 1996.[4]
The organisation has been involved in a number of projects funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), such as Climate History Australia and Grey Literature Strategies. It has alliances with the Australian Digital Alliance, Australian Libraries Copyright Committee, Australian Media Literacy Alliance, GLAM Peak and the National Early Language and Literacy Strategy. The individual member libraries also participate in a number of state-wide or national projects.[5]
It runs advisory groups on a number of topics and manages the "Culturally Safe Libraries Program", with the aim of making "programs, services and collections that are accessible, respectful and responsive to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ needs and perspectives".[6]
NED
The NLSA consortium has developed and delivered the National edeposit (NED) service for electronic publications, with the project led by the NED Steering Group, consisting of representatives from each member library. NED was formally launched in August 2019, and is now running in all NSLA libraries. Work continues on the system, with further enhancements are in the pipeline.[6]
Indigenous heritage position statement
In May 2021, NSLA published a position statement on
Member libraries
As of May 2020[update] members are:[2]
Each member library is represented by their
References
- ^ a b c d "History and achievements". National and State Libraries Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ a b "Members". National and State Libraries Australia. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ "About NSLA". National and State Libraries Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ "Annual Australian public library statistics". National and State Libraries Australia. 23 March 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ "Research and partnerships". National and State Libraries Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ a b "Our work". National and State Libraries Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ a b "What is legal deposit?". National Library of Australia. 17 February 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ a b "Legal deposit in Australia". National and State Libraries Australia. 1 June 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ "Position statement: Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP)". National and State Libraries Australasia. 28 May 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021. Text may have been copied from this source, which is available under a Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
- ^ "Homepage". Northern Territory Library. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
Notice: The Northern Territory Library and NT Archives Service have joined forces to become a new branch within the Department of Tourism, Sport and Culture: Library & Archives NT.