A network of local museums is collaborating to preserve valuable heritage collections online as part of a national initiative.
Category: Libraries & museums
Council museums in ‘precarious funding environment’
Local government has found itself responsible for Australia’s growing array of local museums and a new analysis highlights many are struggling with staffing and resourcing.
Libraries need to evolve digitally, says new report
Nearly 90 percent of Australia’s library users think online library services are important, but only 61 percent are satisfied with the online experience they are receiving from libraries. That compares…
Heyfield named Australia’s strongest community
The Commercial Hotel in Heyfield The small Gippsland town of Heyfield, 200 km east of Melbourne, has been named Australia’s ‘Strongest and Most Resilient Community’. The award was given as…
NSW councils underperforming on gender balance (and how to fix it)
NSW local government is performing well. In most areas. But it is lacking in its participation rate of females, particularly in management. This had potentially dangerous consequences for the future…
LGAs only halfway there on digital
The new ANZ Local Government Digital Maturity Index (DMI) contains a number of interesting findings. One of the most intriguing is the fact that most Local Government Authorities do a…
Service NSW – Popular, but expensive
Service NSW, the NSW Government’s ‘one stop shop’ program, is proving popular with the public. But it has been expensive, and will take more than three years longer to recoup its…
Facing local government’s digital dilemma
Tough spending choices for UK local councils.
ScoMo’s Budget boost for local councils
Financial assistance grants unfrozen.
Council chambers could be used as respite cooling centres during NSW heatwave
No blackouts, says government.