First Roundtable on Library and Archives Collections and Services of Relevance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, 4 May 1995
Summary
Paper - State Library of Queensland
This paper provides a summary of the progress the State Library of Queensland has made in relation to the recommendations arising from Session H of the Review Meeting.
The Library Board of Queensland agreed to the establishment of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Committee in March 1994. The first advisory committee meeting took place in May 1994 where issues including the role and membership of the committee were discussed. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Committee reports directly to the Library Board of Queensland and is chaired by Jackie Huggins who is a member of the Board.
Members of the advisory committee include Manfred Cross (Chairman of the Library Board), Des Stephens (State Librarian), Jackie Huggins (Library Board Member and Aboriginal Author), Brian Randall (Manager of John Oxley Library), Robert Pestell (Director of the Public Libraries Division), Kathy Frankland and Loris Williams (Co- ordinators of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Resource Unit), Ysola Best (research officer for Koombumeri Corporation for Culture), Sandra Delany, Eric Law (Aboriginal Co-ordinating Council), and Steve Mam (IINA). Other staff from the library also attend meetings when their input is required.
Over the last year the advisory committee has met on average for two hours bi-monthly. Issues discussed and work carried out by the committee have included :
- Drafting an access agreement for the Tindale genealogies collection
- Discussion of existing collection development policies
- Discussion relating to access to collections in general
- Discussion relating to existing library services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Draft policy on protection and return of significant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Property
- Towards Federation 2001 resolutions
- Discussion relating to the State Library of Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment and Career Development Five Year Plan
- Discussion relating to the Report on the provisions of public library services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Queensland
- Discussion relating to reproduction rights and access to photographs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- The establishment of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Committee has provided a valuable forum for discussion on many issues and it has allowed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to participate in the formulation of library policy.
The State Library of Queensland through the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Committee is currently discussing ways in which information relating to collections relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can be disseminated. The library has also undertaken a review of public library services to indigenous communities the results of which have been documented in a report to the Library Board of Queensland.
It is anticipated that work on providing remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities with access to a series of databases containing information relevant to indigenous people will commence later this year.
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