Libraries Australia, a service that enables anyone with an Internet connection to select from more than 40 million items held in over 800 libraries across the nation, was launched at 12.30pm Monday 27 ...

“The Australian Web Archive [AWA] is one of the biggest in the world. And when we say big, we mean enormous,” says director general of the National Library of Australia, Dr Marie-Louise Ayres. The new ...

Heather L. Robinson has a library card for the Hepburn Library Network. Public engagement with library programs and events has increased by one million. Loans of books, DVDs and other items are at ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Australia’s cities are investing in new libraries designed for ...

Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in ...

Other services are increasingly telling clients that their local library can help them, and staff there are coming under pressure Lizzie Flaherty works in a library, but she’s not a librarian.

Library visits in the United States have almost halved over the past decade. But in Australia, they’re up 10% compared to a year ago, according to a new report. In fact, our public libraries are ...