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**Minutes** | **Minutes** | ||
- | **Location: ** | + | **Location**: Max Webber Library, Blacktown City Libraries |
- | **Date: ** | + | **Date**: Friday, 23 February 2024 **Time**: 10.05am |
- | **Chair:** | + | **Chair**: Eugenia Ng **Minutes**: Julie Parkinson |
- | **Minutes: ** | + | Joy Bourke, Manager Blacktown City Libraries welcomed the NSW Multicultural Working Group and reflected on Blacktown’s multicultural community celebration of International Mother Language Day, the extensive and varied program of free events being offered by the library for ‘Multicultural March 2024’, and a project to develop reader’s advisory support from suppliers. |
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+ | **Attending**: Eugenia Ng (Burwood), Julie Parkinson (Sutherland), | ||
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+ | **Apologies**: | ||
- | **Apologies:** | + | **Election of Chairperson**: It was agreed to temporarily fill the position of Chair on a rotating basis for 2024. Thank you to Eugenia Ng (Burwood) for volunteering for our present meeting and to Jenny Zhang (City of Sydney) for accepting the position in May, Katherine Zhu (Randwick) for accepting the position in August, and Ayse Ersoy (Waverley) for accepting the position in November. |
- | **Matters | + | **Matters |
- | **Confirmation | + | Helen (Inner West) advised that the withdrawing |
- | ** Guest Speaker:** | + | Joanna (SL NSW) advised that the State Library is in the process of creating a new website and the updated community language directory will follow in due course. |
- | **Strategic Plan:** | + | **Confirmation of previous minutes**: Accepted by Helen Williams, seconded Phillip Jones. |
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+ | **Guest Speakers**: | ||
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+ | **Ana Tuionuku – Twinnies Pacific Bilingual Books** Ana introduced the group to the Pacific Island publishing company, publishing bilingual books to impart cultural knowledge in a way that can be better understood. Fijian/ | ||
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+ | **Mulong Xie, Research Fellow CSIRO** Mulong launched the Universal Task Assistant (UTA), a smart device assistant created to ‘Bridge People and Technology’ UTA has been created to assist mostly elderly people to learn about and use technology, and it is anticipated that it will be coordinated with the Tech Savvy Seniors program. Once installed, the app can automatically complete user’s tasks on smart devices on any app, teach the user to complete their task step by step on any app, provide app recommendations, | ||
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+ | **Ellen Forsyth – Adult Fiction Stock Quality Health Check and Professional Development** Ellen has reviewed results and created spreadsheets to provide a visual representation of the findings of the Adult Fiction Stock Quality Health Check which will be available on the State Library website (when recreated). When purchasing adult fiction, we are being encouraged to think about acquiring works by culturally and linguistically diverse authors, authors from other countries as well as texts in translation, | ||
**Other Business** | **Other Business** | ||
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+ | **Strategic Plan (Abby/ | ||
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+ | **Update on the 50th anniversary celebrations of Multicultural Services SL (Joanna)** Celebrations start in March this year and we were given a sneak peek of promotional material. Those who provided assistance with translations (covering 43 different languages) were gratefully acknowledged. A kit will be sent to libraries with bookmarks, posters, digital signatures, possibly badges and ideas for how to celebrate the service. | ||
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+ | **Social media campaign for bulk loan service (Abby Dawson)** A social media campaign is being developed for the community language bulk loan service. Draft signage for use with and to promote bulk loans were shared. | ||
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+ | **Spotlight on multicultural services in libraries (Abby/ | ||
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+ | **NSW Dept of Education Resources (Abby)** New South Wales Department of Education has bilingual dictionary resources accessible via Multicultural Education link, student resources. https:// | ||
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+ | **Housing bulk loans collections – (Fujing Zhao, Ku-ring-gai)** Ideas shared on how to manage bulk loans held for customers, including locating books to maximise exposure/ | ||
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+ | **Highlights from the network** Joelmon shared the impressive line up of free events hosted by Blacktown City Libraries during ‘Multicultural March 2024. Marilyn spoke of the success Bankstown Library is having with weekly Chinese author talks, assisting people through Citizenship workshops, creative Harmony Week events including dance and karaoke, English classes and Let’s Talk French. | ||
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+ | **Meeting close**: 12:20pm | ||
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+ | **Next meeting**: Korean Cultural Centre, 255 Elizabeth Street, Sydney on 15 May @ 1:30pm | ||
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