From Stereotype to Empathy to Inclusion: How Diversity can bring Strength to the LIS Workforce

Adelaide Convention Centre North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia

ALIA Multicultural is joining ALIA Disability to deliver a pre-conference workshop in ALIA National 2024. In this workshop, two ALIA special interest groups, ALIA Multicultural and ALIA Disability, join forces to explore diversity in the LIS workforce and the importance of learning from the Multicultural and Disability sectors when it comes to strengthening inclusion to… Read More »

Enriching library service with Information eXperience Design

Zoom Meeting

Join us for an interactive workshop on Information Experience Design (IXD), where we blend theory with practice to enrich library services. Delve into the theoretical insights from a study on refugees' information literacy, then collaborate with peers to brainstorm innovative library interventions inspired by the findings of the study. This hands-on session offers a unique… Read More »

(Re)imagining the future of multicultural collection

Zoom Meeting

Fifty years on, how should we (re)imagine multiculturalism in Australian public libraries? Public libraries have been stocking multicultural and multilingual items, but library collections and services and how library users access them have greatly changed in the last fifty years. In this webinar, using the case study of a Trove list project and a collaboration… Read More »

Digital Health Literacy for Refugees

Zoom Meeting

You are invited to participate in a Research webinar led by Bhuva Narayan delivered via ALIAMulticultural. Explanation: This is an extension of Health NSW (Multicultural Health Services) project on DigitalHealth Literacy for Refugees. There is some information about the original project here:https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/multicultural/Documents/digital-health-literacy-poster.pdf My project, funded also by NSW Health, is looking at public libraries’ role… Read More »