ALIA Multicultural eNews has had a revamp!
Thank you Ennis Chen for leading the workshop in our first committee meeting on the revamp of the eNewslettter.
From 2025 our eNews will be a themed quarterly publication open to contributions.
Issue one is currently open for submissions with the deadline to contribute by Monday March 17th.
Themes and submission deadlines for each issue are:
January to March
Theme: improving multicultural collections, programs and services
Call outs for submissions: from Tuesday March 4th to Monday March 17th – CURRENTLY OPEN
Issue Published – Friday March 28th
April to June
Theme: emerging fields of research in the library sector
Call outs for submissions: from Monday June 2nd to Sunday June 15th
Issue Published – Friday June 27th
July to September
Theme: advocacy work and library collaborations
Call outs for submission from Monday September 1st to Sunday September 14th
Issue Published Friday September 26th
October to December
Theme: diversifying library teams
Call outs for submission from Monday November 24th to Sunday December 7th
Issue Published – Friday December 19th
Each issue will also include:
AI corner – Brief opinion piece on how AI is affecting collections and services, or libraries in general with a multicultural perspective.
Get to know an ALIA Multicultural committee member.
How to contribute
Reach out and share an idea for publication by the closing date for each quarterly issue via the form below. You can also send an email to discuss ideas.
Hi, I am an ALIA librarian member. How do I get access to the ALIA multicultural enews? Thanks!
Hi Marianna,
You can subscribe to our eNews via https://multicultural.alia.org.au/subscribe/
There is a subscribe option at the bottom of the page and this will enable you to subscribe to the blog and eNewsletter posts.