We Play, We Learn, We Belong In 2019, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day celebrates the early years and promotes the importance of early years’ education and care for our little ones. We recognise the critical role that family, community, country and culture play in their development. Children’s Day has been celebrated on … Read more
Grub’s up in the children’s area at Mossman Library in far north Queensland! Thanks to a recent State Library of Queensland Realising Our Potential Micro Grant, the library purchased a new kitchen set and barbecue complete with utensils, saucepans and pretend toy food. Other equipment purchased included a wooden doll house and work bench. The … Read more
Over 700 people ‘came’, ‘saw it’ and ‘did it’ at Tableland’s ‘See It Do It Library Day’ on Saturday 25 May 2019. The full day event was designed promote the diversity of activities on offer to the community, highlighting the library as ‘more than just a place to borrow and read books.’ Activities held on … Read more
What’s your Queensland story? Applications are now open for five research fellowships totalling $60,000 as part of the Queensland Memory Awards. Use State Library of Queensland’s vast resources to uncover and share your stories. Researchers from all backgrounds and disciplines are encouraged to apply. The Queensland Memory Awards include: John Oxley Library … Read more
Increased membership and engagement are common library goals, and at Moreton Bay Regional Council libraries we hope that a renewed focus on community engagement will help us achieve this, as well as deliver on some of our other priorities which include increasing access to our collections and attracting new and diverse audiences. Across our ten … Read more
Dementia Australia describes a dementia-friendly community as a city, town or village where people with dementia are understood, respected and supported, and confident they can contribute to community life. Your library can help create a dementia-friendly community by supporting library staff to understand dementia, and people with dementia and to help people with dementia remain actively … Read more
State Library is excited to announce that the new Service Level Agreement (SLA) for First 5 Forever is now available for 2019-2021. The new SLA will take the place of the old Best Start four year agreement which expires on the 31 December 2018. To continue to participate in First 5 Forever and receive your first … Read more
Help promote libraries and Indigenous Knowledge Centres (IKC) as the natural home for budding artists and scientists. The 2018 Fun Palace at State Library of Queensland (State Library) is being delivered at The Edge on the 6 October from 10am-3pm and we want to offer a unique professional development (PD) opportunity to four public library … Read more
Queensland Multicultural Month (QMM) is held annually in August to celebrate Queensland’s cultural diversity. Join in the state’s largest multicultural celebration that aims to promote Queensland as a unified, harmonious and inclusive community. Queensland is a multicultural success story and QMM is the time to showcase and celebrate our unique diversity that deepens and enriches … Read more
How do you kick off Library and Information Week in the best possible way? Just go ahead and open a new library! But not just any library, in any town, in any region… the library that Livingstone Shire Council Libraries re-opened on the 21st May 2018 was very, very, VERY unique! For starters it has … Read more
