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 **Date**: Friday, 23 February 2024	**Time**: 10.05am
-**Chair**: Eugenia Ng
+**Chair**: Eugenia Ng     **Minutes**: Julie Parkinson
-**Minutes**: Julie Parkinson
 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.
-**Attending**: Eugenia Ng (Burwood), Julie Parkinson (Sutherland), Matilda Wong (Ryde), Joanna Goh (State Library of NSW), Phillip Jones (Canada Bay), Ellen Forsyth (State Library of NSW), Abby Dawson (SLNSW), Rukhshana Hossain (Hornsby Library), Sung Jung Yoon (Strathfield), Ana Tuionuku (Twinnies Publishing), Sujetha Thadakamalla (Fairfield City Open Libraries), Katherine Zhu (Randwick), Helen Williams (Inner West), Fujing Zhao (Ku-ring-gai), Marilyn Shamafil (Bankstown Library), Jenny Zhang (City of Sydney), Jadwiga Krejza (Liverpool City Libraries), Joelmon Zungar (Blacktown), Tupou Tuipulotu (Twinnies Publishing), Ayse Ersoy (Waverley).
+**Attending**: Eugenia Ng (Burwood), Julie Parkinson (Sutherland), Matilda Wong (Ryde), Joanna Goh (State Library of NSW), Phillip Jones (Canada Bay), Ellen Forsyth (State Library of NSW), Abby Dawson (SLNSW), Rukhshana Hossain (Hornsby Library), Sung Jung Yoon (Strathfield), Ana Tuionuku (Twinnies Publishing), Sujatha Thadakamalla (Fairfield City Open Libraries), Katherine Zhu (Randwick), Helen Williams (Inner West), Fujing Zhao (Ku-ring-gai), Marilyn Shamafil (Bankstown Library), Jenny Zhang (City of Sydney), Jadwiga Krejza (Liverpool City Libraries), Joelmon Zungar (Blacktown), Tupou Tuipulotu (Twinnies Publishing), Ayse Ersoy (Waverley).
 **Apologies**: Shauna Miller (SLNSW), Vivien Chung (Willoughby), Stephanie Lee (Bayside), Mary Loveland (Northern Beaches), Stella Tay (Cumberland), Kathy Yang (Ryde), Vanessa Maino (Ryde) and Mary (Ryde).
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 **Matters arising from previous minutes**:
-Helen (Inner West) advised that the withdrawing of identified collections (and subsequent availability) continues to be a work in progress.
+  * Helen (Inner West) advised that the withdrawing of identified collections (and subsequent availability) continues to be a work in progress.
+  * 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.
-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.
 **Confirmation of previous minutes**: Accepted by Helen Williams, seconded Phillip Jones.
-**Guest Speaker**:
+**Guest Speakers**:
 **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/English, Tongan/English and Samoan/English texts are available, in which established Pacific authors are telling their own stories, encouraging readers to be better informed about where traditions come from. Ana informed us that there are 330,000 Pacific People residing in NSW. Twinnies Pacific Bilingual Books are fostering series, myths, history, creative illustration and story animation accompanied by authentic voices, and their publications are being acquired by libraries in high schools and public library services.