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- | **Working Group Multicultural | + | |
+ | **Working Group on Multicultural | ||
**Minutes** | **Minutes** | ||
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**Location: | **Location: | ||
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**Date: 23** November 2023 | **Date: 23** November 2023 | ||
**Time:** 9:15am | **Time:** 9:15am | ||
- | **Chair:** Sujatha Thadakamalla | ||
- | Attending: Oriana Acevedo (State Library), Shauna Miller (State Library), Joanna Goh (State Library), Abby Dawson (State Library), Thanoja Fernando (Wollongong City Libraries), Faranak Kazemimajd (Wollongong City Libraries), | + | **Chair:** Sujatha Thadakamalla |
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+ | ** Minutes**: Jadwiga Krejza | ||
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+ | Attending: Oriana Acevedo (State Library), Shauna Miller (State Library), Joanna Goh (State Library), Abby Dawson (State Library), Thanoja Fernando (Wollongong City Libraries), Faranak Kazemimajd (Wollongong City Libraries), | ||
**Apologies: | **Apologies: | ||
Minutes from previous meeting were accepted by Thanh Luu (Canterbury Bankstown) and seconded by Kathy Yang (City of Ryde). | Minutes from previous meeting were accepted by Thanh Luu (Canterbury Bankstown) and seconded by Kathy Yang (City of Ryde). | ||
- | **Business arising from previous meeting:** contact Ross Balharrie regarding online resources available for the multicultural community via libraries | + | **Business arising from previous meeting:** contact Ross Balharrie regarding online resources available for multicultural community via libraries |
- | **Chair and secretary nominations: | + | **Chair and secretary nominations: |
- | **ID Support | + | **ID Theft Services |
The presenter recommended to use the Password Strength Tester and checking your credit score for unusual transactions: | The presenter recommended to use the Password Strength Tester and checking your credit score for unusual transactions: | ||
Passwords | NSW Government | Passwords | NSW Government | ||
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By phone 1800 001 040 | By phone 1800 001 040 | ||
- | **Library AV:** Shane Clancy from Library AV gave a presentation on the services | + | **Library AV ** they are providing |
**Annual report Chair Sujatha.** | **Annual report Chair Sujatha.** | ||
https:// | https:// | ||
- | **50th anniversary of Multicultural Services SL NSW:** Abby is writing an article | + | **50th anniversary of Multicultural Services SL NSW:** Abby is writing an article |
- | She would like members of the group to share the experiences and memories, newsletter’s articles about the service to share with her. The celebrations are planned for the whole year. Email below: | + | She would like members of the group to share the experiences and memories, newsletter’s articles about the service to share with her. |
- | + | Abby is also writing an article about the history of the service and its impact for communities in NSW. | |
- | //Dear everyone, | + | She would like to get some quotes from public library staff, and hopefully community members who use the service to bring the story to life. |
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- | As I mentioned at the Working Group Meeting last week, next year is 50 years of the multicultural bulk loan service for public libraries and as part of the celebrations, | + | |
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- | I would like to get some quotes from public library staff, and hopefully community members who use the service to bring the story to life. | + | |
It doesn' | It doesn' | ||
It would also be great if you have any feedback from your community about what it means to be able to access books in their own language. | It would also be great if you have any feedback from your community about what it means to be able to access books in their own language. | ||
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+ | **Community language directory: | ||
- | **Community language directory:** Joanna Goh- the directory needs to be updated. Specific branches | + | **Glossary review:** There has been some requests by libraries for new phrases |
- | **Glossary review:** it is difficult to download the signage in other font, and the cost of new translations are very expensive. Joanna suggested that if new words or phrases need to be added then library staff with the appropriate and preferable recognized language skills could create and check any of the spelling | ||
**Information session:** | **Information session:** | ||
- | + | Shauna | |
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- | Oriana | + | Shauna spoke about the changes to terms of reference, representative from Library managers. |
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- | Shauna spoke about the changes to terms of reference | + | |
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Helen – Inner West; the library will be withdrawing Nepalese, Arabic and Gujarati collections. | Helen – Inner West; the library will be withdrawing Nepalese, Arabic and Gujarati collections. | ||
She was also asking for a suggestion for a magazine’s suppliers e.g., Greek language. Shauna will create the list of suppliers. Group to send information. | She was also asking for a suggestion for a magazine’s suppliers e.g., Greek language. Shauna will create the list of suppliers. Group to send information. | ||
**Dates for next year meetings:** | **Dates for next year meetings:** | ||
- | Thursday, 23rd February - Blacktown Library | + | * Friday 24th February - Blacktown Library |
- | Thursday, | + | |
- | Thursday, 22 August – Liverpool | + | |
- | Thursday, 21 November – State Library | + | |
+ | * | ||
+ | Meeting Closed: 12:30pm | ||
- | + | **Oriana' | |
- | **Oriana farewell:** Oriana asked libraries to support the Multicultural | + | |
She is very proud of the establishment of the Working Group and what the group achieved over the years. | She is very proud of the establishment of the Working Group and what the group achieved over the years. | ||
- | She also stressed the importance of current | + | She stressed the importance of the current |
- | The multicultural services that the library | + | The multicultural services, that the libraries |
- | She will still be at the State Library until her replacement is appointed. | + | |
She is planning to be involved with her local community and Fairfield library. | She is planning to be involved with her local community and Fairfield library. | ||
- | Oriana was presented with farewell gift and a special card, which were by current members of the previous | + | Oriana was presented with farewell gift and a special card, from past and present |
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- | Meeting Closed: 12:30pm | + | |
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