Libraries Australia, a service that enables anyone with an Internet connection to select from more than 40 million items held in over 800 libraries across the nation, was launched at 12.30pm Monday 27 ...

Heather L. Robinson has a library card for the Hepburn Library Network. Public engagement with library programs and events has increased by one million. Loans of books, DVDs and other items are at ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Australia’s cities are investing in new libraries designed for ...

Following a four-year modernisation and digitisation project and a AU$16 million backing from the federal government, the National Library of Australia (NLA) has launched the revamped version of its ...

Other services are increasingly telling clients that their local library can help them, and staff there are coming under pressure Lizzie Flaherty works in a library, but she’s not a librarian.

Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in ...

At the beginning of 2023, the City of Marion Libraries had a problem. As with many public institutions still recovering from COVID-19 restrictions, visitor numbers were down, and the library service, ...

Almost 200 authors and identities, whose number includes a Nobel Prize-winning immunologist and singer-songwriter Paul Kelly, have signed an open letter seen by The Australian and to be delivered to ...

Library visits in the United States have almost halved over the past decade. But in Australia, they’re up 10% compared to a year ago, according to a new report. In fact, our public libraries are ...

At Cumberland City Council in the western suburbs of Sydney, one man — Councillor Steve Christou — persuaded the council to ban books about same-sex parenting from the council's libraries. The change ...