Monday 5 to Friday 9 November 2018 (includes travel), Cairns The biannual IKC workshop will be held in Cairns in November 2018 for all IKC staff and their managers. This biannual workshop brings together staff from 24 IKCs situated in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities as Far North as Boigu Island in the … Read more
CBCA Children’s Book Week 18-24 August It’s not long now until the start of Children’s Book Week 2018. Each year across Australia, the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) brings children, families and books together celebrating CBCA Book Week. This year’s theme is “Find your treasure”. The First 5 Forever team are celebrating book week … Read more
Applications close Friday, 14 September 2018. The funding round for multicultural events under the 2018-19 Celebrating Multicultural Queensland (CMQ) program is now open. The CMQ program promotes multiculturalism and supports communities to celebrate diversity and connect and welcome migrants and refugees into a wide range of community activities. What funding is available? Funding of up … Read more
Tumble Book Library is a database especially for children and available for free for all Queensland public libraries, Indigenous Knowledge Centres and State Library of Queensland members. Tumblebooks is another great featured resource for Queensland Multicultural Month with more than 120 ebooks in Spanish and French. There are over 1000 titles for grades K-6, including animated, talking picture … Read more
Kanopy is available for all Queensland public library, Indigenous Knowledge Centre (IKC) and State Library of Queensland members. Offering what the New York Times calls a garden of cinematic delights, Kanopy showcases more than 30,000 of the world’s best films. The world in film With the motto of “thoughtful entertainment,” Kanopy provides patrons with access … Read more
Join in the fun with Children’s Book Week from 18 – 24 August, 2018 with the theme Find Your Treasure. Each year at this time across Australia, the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) brings children and books together for CBCA Book Week. Schools, libraries, booksellers, authors, illustrators and children will be celebrating Australian children’s … Read more
The annual Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) QLD mini conference aims to encourage first-time presenters to have a go, so if you have an idea and would like to see what it’s like to be standing up front at a conference why not submit a proposal? The ALIA QLD Mini Conference 2018 theme takes … Read more
Library staff from across Queensland recently logged on to the Connecting with Collections First 5 Forever webinar. Presenters from different library services shared strategies they use for keeping current with what’s available in the book world for the 0-5s and their families. With new books and stock exchanges always arriving on shelves, how do you … Read more
There are more resources available at State Library of Queensland than Languages other than English (LOTE) to help your library and IKC members get into Queensland Multicultural Month this August. Become a State Library member for online access to Press Reader; a digital newspaper distribution and publishing operator with thousands of recent top newspapers and magazines, … Read more
Highlighting the State Library of Queensland Languages Other than English (LOTE) collection is a great way to celebrate Queensland Multicultural Month in your library. There are more than 70,000 items in the LOTE collection in more than 50 languages. From Albanian to Urdu from Persian to Polish and from Samoan to Tongan you’ll find a … Read more
