Queensland families with young and yet to be born children received some great news today, with the State Government announcement that the successful First 5 Forever early literacy initiative will continue. A commitment of $20 million over four years was delivered in the 2018/19 budget. First 5 Forever is a family literacy initiative that is … Read more
The LexisNexis legal database now has a new look, with the introduction of Lexis Advance. The cleaner, more intuitive interface is much easier to use and provides access to legal information suitable for consumers, students, researchers and the legal profession. It still contains reliable resources and iconic publications such as Halsbury’s Laws of Australia and … Read more
This week is Library and Information week 21-27 May and the theme for this year is ‘Find Yourself in the Library’. I found myself in the library in a rather roundabout way. My potential place in the library was first suggested to me by my grandmother – whom we called Marnie. I was 15. ‘Why don’t … Read more
This week is Library and Information week 21-27 May and the theme for this year is ‘Find Yourself in the Library’. As a librarian here at State Library of Queensland I often find myself here, from about 9-5 Monday through Friday in fact. All jokes aside though, this theme for me is not just about physically … Read more
New ideas, innovations and discoveries are protected by legal documents known as patents. Belonging to the area of law referred to as intellectual property, the economic and moral protection of ideas and designs has a long history, dating from a Venetian law in the 1400s and adopted into British Law by the Statute of Monopolies … Read more
The State Library is excited to launch our latest project Unstacked. Over the last few months, we have been working with Interaction Designer Elisa Lee and Creative Technologist Adam Hinshaw, and their team to create a new way of visualising the State Library’s collection. The Library has a lot of great content in our collection … Read more
My name is Laura. I don’t know the exact day I first came in to the library but it was probably about 4 or 5 years ago now. My uncle comes here a lot to do research and, because I’m an avid reader, he thought to bring me to SLQ and show me the children … Read more
First 5 Forever’s success relies on reaching families of children 0-5 across Queensland. Providing outreach services, programs and events outside your library can be a very effective and successful way to spread the early literacy message and connect non-library users with the library service. Here are some tips on how to plan, what to pack … Read more
The State Library of Queensland (State Library) is committed to preserving its digital collections for the long term. State Library is currently in the process of migrating our digital content to a new digital preservation system, which will allow us to preserve the integrity and authenticity of our digital collections, in addition to storing, managing … Read more
The Grattan Institute’s next event examines the big state government reforms in school education and what the Commonwealth’s role should be within the reform picture. The Commonwealth’s role in schooling is topical given it recently commissioned a review on ways to achieve excellence in Australian schools (known as … Read more
