Many important Australian books have found themselves out-of-print and hard-to-find. The Untapped project aims to change that, bringing classics to a library near you.
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Literature funding has been cut brutally in recent years and writers' incomes are disastrously low. Yet books shape our national identity, forming an often invisible bedrock for the wider economy.
We know teacher librarians support children's literacy. But school libraries play a more diverse role, including supporting students' well-being.
Policymakers should mandate Canada's national library to archive the entire Canadian web domain so future reserachers can make sense of 2020 and ongoing responses to the pandemic.
What stories will we tell about library collections in the future? As digitization takes over libraries, margin notes and scribbles are still part of the research process.
There's a long history of books being banned from public and school libraries.
Privileged children get to use phones in school while others face bans for 'messing around''.
In our digital age, libraries are spaces for community and connection. The new State Library Victoria proves libaries have an exciting future.
Literacy researchers analyze cross-Canada favourite books for kindergarten to Grade 2 readers, and suggest great "gritty" reads that can help normalize conversations surrounding failure and growth.
Libraries, archives, museums and galleries have finally been included in South Africa's contested new proposed copyright bill.
Today's libraries build communities and provide space for learning new technologies but it is critical that they continue to be about books and reading too.
We commonly think of libraries as repositories of knowledge accumulated over centuries. But the public library also connects people in ways that can enable communities to plan for their future.
The UC libraries let their Elsevier journal subscriptions lapse and now the publisher has cut their online access. It's a painful milestone in the fight UC hopes may transform how journals get paid.
ParentsNext requires places like libraries and public pools to monitor parents' attendance at activities. This undermines their role as spaces of inclusion and support.
In our world of pervasive consumerism, libraries continue to be founded on humanism. Their core purpose as accessible places is vital – yet they are also now popular tourist destinations.
The Ford government's cuts to library services are unwarranted and must be rescinded.
With advancements in technology, libraries are offering much more than something to read. A library researcher offers a sampling of some unexpected items that library patrons can check out these days.
The way books are sorted at the library can be highly political, touching upon issues of race and identity.
Digital publishing hasn't resulted in the free and open access to information many envisioned. Universities are increasingly fed up with a system they see as charging them for their own scholars' labor.
The media trope negates the work done by archivists, who are often well-aware of the existence of 'long-lost' letters, journals and stories.
Top contributors
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Deputy University Librarian, University of California, Merced
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Director of the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University
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Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand
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MacKenzie Smith is a Friend of The Conversation.
University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
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Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Learning Environments, University of Melbourne
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Digital Archivist
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University Historian and Principal Research Fellow, History, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
