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.

RH1 :

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 :

RH3 :

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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