Category: Libraries & museums

e-Lending has opened up significant opportunities for public libraries, but the news isn’t all good.

The first council library in NSW is going strong after the better part of a century.

Yarra City Council has developed an Australia-first ‘grab-and-go’ library app.

There is a pressing need for a defined state government policy which provides a trigger for the construction of new libraries in new and expanding communities in the same way that there are policy provisions for schools and hospitals.

Local government is failing to ensure council libraries are delivering value for money.

The federal government’s per capita expenditure on the arts has dropped over the last ten years.

A Melbourne library is getting a full-time social worker in a sign of the changing role of libraries.

The WA State Library has paid $14,000 at auction for a letter by AC/DC frontman Bon Scott.

The NSW election will be a pivotal one for local government, the head of the state’s peak body for councils says.

Recommendations not to move the Powerhouse Museum to western Sydney have alarmed the council at the centre of the stoush.