The educational sector is usually the first to decry large language models and AI, due to worries about cheating. The State Library of Queensland, however, has embraced the technology in controversial ...
As the library turns 200, lead curator Elise Edmonds and her team have picked out 200 objects from the 6m in its collection for a new exhibition ...
A controversial book which has been slammed worldwide for exposing children to 'gay porn' has been ripped from an Australian city's library shelves for the first time. Bundaberg Regional Council on ...
The bicentenary of a library founded in 1826 under governor Ralph Darling – books set against the dust of a penal outpost – ought to invite a measure of historical perspective. But at the State ...
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 ...
Softlink is one of the largest digital ebook distribution systems for libraries in Australia. It is one of Overdrive’s main business partners and does fairly brisk business in schools, libraries, and ...
E-readers are more and more popular – but Australians are slow to take up the option of borrowing e-books from public libraries. Steve Walker, CC BY-ND What place do e-readers – and in particular ...
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — Sydney’s Jewish Museum and descendants of survivors saved by Oskar Schindler are angry that a carbon copy of his famous list was sold to the State Library of New South Wales.
The Australian Library and Information Association has told librarians to keep some con­tro­versial events “offline so people cannot find it there’’. It warns that some protesters are tracking ...
The library of an Australian university was evacuated last week because of a suspected gas leak which turned out to be something much different. Around 550 people evacuated the University of ...
A survey of the most borrowed books from Australian public libraries in 2015 shows that crime and cooking dominate readers' interests. The survey, conducted by the Australian Library and Information ...
SYDNEY, April 7 (Reuters Life!) - A list of Jews saved from the Nazi death camps during World War II by the German industrialist Oskar Schindler has been found in research notes at an Australian ...