The Sydney Morning Herald is today reporting that Leichhardt Public Library, located in Sydney’s Inner West, has cancelled a planned exhibition about Israel and Palestine -
“Al-Nakba”, a pictorial exhibition about Palestine and Israel,  should have  opened at Leichhardt municipal library last Friday.
But after the police visit on Thursday night, it was suddenly cancelled the next morning.
The exhibition [...]

Thursday the 29th of November is a Day of Action to improve funding for New South Wales Public Libraries. According to an ALIA press release, “funding for these libraries has decreased from 23.6% of the total operating costs of public libraries in 1980 to 7.8% in 2004-05 with further reductions in years since then. The State [...]

As commented elsewhere, a librarian and aussie has won the Ig Nobel prize for Literature! Glenda Browne of NSW, won it:
“for her study [pdf, 173k] of the word “the” — and of the many ways it causes problems for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical order.”

Library folk in NSW are getting their leathers together for a bike ride in October (18 to 21) from Engadine to Kiama. “A fun filled few days where librarians across the state get together to visit rural libraries to generate publicity and have some fun.” A chance to visit a bunch of libraries, hang out [...]

An Australian Information Architecture conference and retreat, featuring an array of well-known speakers, including the NLA’s own Alexander Johannesen will be held this weekend in Sydney: OZ-IA 06.
We want to continue building and sharing the practice of information architecture in Australia and this is our forum to come together and discuss and learn.
Who should [...]

Public libraries throughout Australia face an imminent ‘age wave’ as the baby boomer generation reaches retirement age. Retirees and older people have traditionally been an important target market for public libraries [people over the age of 65 use libraries 5 times as often as the rest of us]. The impact of a greatly [...]