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Contribute to ALIA Multicultural eNews
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:...
Happy First Anniversary of Trove lists project!
On 4 March 2024, ALIA Multicultural created the first two Australian Literature translation Trove lists: Australian Fiction translated into Chinese and Australian Non-Fiction translated into Chinese. We aim to promote Australian Literature to the broader community, especially to the CALD community. In the beginning, we included Australian literature published in Chinese between 2014 and 2024 only as a test run. We received a lot of positive feedback, so we dropped the time limitation and...
(Re)imagining the future of multicultural collection – ALIA Multicultural webinar 25th October
Join us in a recap of the future of multicultural collection, delivered by Alice Chik and Joey Chung on 25 October 2024. 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 with NSW...
Enriching library service with Information eXperience Design – ALIA Multicultural webinar 28th June
Webinar delivered by Dr Ellie Sayyad-Abdi Join us in a recap of this interactive workshop on Information Experience Design (IXD), facilitated by Dr Ellie Sayyad Abdi on June 28th, 2024. We blend theory with practice to enrich library services. Delve into the theoretical insights from a study on refugees’ information literacy, and collaborate with peers to brainstorm innovative library interventions inspired by the findings of the study. Read the study and take a quick look at the findings...
ALIA National Conference: A Reflection
Reflection on representing ALIA Multicultural at ALIA National by My Van Nguyen Dang In May this year I was given the opportunity to attend and speak at the National ALIA Conference in Adelaide. I was representing my organisation along with 2 colleagues, presenting about one of our most long running community programs, the Talking Faith? Forum. Then Mare (Convenor of ALIA Multicultural) asked if I could represent our ALIA Multicultural group on a panel discussion, I was reassured that another...