**Minutes of the Working Group on Multicultural Services Quarterly Meeting held on Monday, the 28th June 2010 at Randwick Library**

__Present__
Shauna Miller State Library of NSW Oriana Acevedo State Library of NSW Alison Watson Zenith Wanda Swierczynska Botany Library Pam Young Western Riverina Libraries Kathy Yang Marrickville Library Wendy Gindi Canterbury Library Victoria Scarf Hurstville Library Mirjana Djukic Ku-Ring-Gai Library Katherine Zhu Randwick Library Jann Debenham Bankstown Library Joelmon Zungar Blacktown Library Wendy Ford Manly Library Ji Ji Kiddle State Library of NSW Noel Willis Fairfield Library Shirley Xing Zhong City of Sydney Library Roman Ciereszko Liverpool Library Kemal Serdar Auburn Library Jacinta Craine Sutherland Library Pauline Chan Parramatta Library Vicki Smith Manly Library Ros Strange Warringah Library Wilma Bancroft Kogarah Library Janelle Anderson Kogarah Library Jane Greville Ryde Library Vivien Chung Willoughby Library Angelina Yeung Willoughby Library Stephanie Lee Rockdale Library Jess Helaratne Multicultural Communication Angharad White Multicultural Communication

__Apologies__ Anne Hall Fairfield Library Dimitri Symeonidis Marrickville Library Danju Wong City of Sydney Library Gail Orchard Newcastle Library Yan Ping Lu Holroyd Library

__Welcome__ Barbara Todes, Manager of Randwick Library, welcomed everyone to the Library.

__Celebration – 27th Birthday__ Party Members celebrated the 27th birthday of the Group and enjoyed the multicultural food and the huge birthday cake. The Birthday gift One hundred and fifteen dollars were collected at Party. The $150 will be invest in a community /charity gift and report back to next meeting

__Minutes of Previous meeting__ The minutes were accepted by Shauna Miller and seconded by Victoria Scarf.

__Matters Arising__

__Living Library Promotional Banner__ Oriana would follow it up with the National Library.

__Library Promotion Banner Review__ Jacinta Craine emailed the members the link of the draft version of the survey (Surveymonkey) a few days before the meeting. There were 10 questions in the survey as Surveymonkey only allowed 10 free questions. Any comments should be sent to Jacinta. She will report it in the next meeting.

__History of the Working Group Project__ The matter would be further discussed in the next meeting in August.

__Travelling Exhibition Update__ Wendy Ford briefly reported about the costing of the Exhibition. The matter would be further discussed in the next meeting in August.

__Mylanguage National Conference 2010 Update__ Oriana reminded that the early bird registration for the Conference would be finished by 31 June 2010.

__Multicultural Health Week 26 July__ Jess Halaratne and Angharad White from Multicultural Communication introduced their services and resources for the Multicultural Health Week starting on 26 July. The Group also suggested if the Multicultural Communication and the Group would help each other to promote the multicultural health services. Mirjana Djukic worked out a sentence to suggest to the Communication to see if they could include it (in different languages) in their promotion materials and their webpage http://www.mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/ publicationsandresources/languages.asp “For more information on this and other health topics in your language visit your local library.” In return, it was suggested to put the Multicultural health Communication Service (MHCS) page in their Health resources or Multicultural resources links or both on MyLanguage webpage if it was not yet on it.

For more details about the services and online resources (e.g. brochures) from Multicultural Communication, please visit their website www.mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au

__Multicultural Health Subset Collection in SLNSW__ Oriana reported that they would group their materials on health in different languages. If the numbers of the items in each language was substantial, the State could loan them out in theme to libraries including a banner that promote this collection.

__Report on Cooperative Cataloguing__ Alison Watson from Zenith prepared a report and distributed it to the members. To improve their service, they would catalogue the titles selected before receiving the actual items in the next financial year. Any suggestions on their service improve should be sent to Shauna.

__Bulk Loan Update__ The State Library is in the process of transferring the Bulk loans team from Access and Information to Public Libraries and Community Learning Division New team on bulk loan will be recruit internally and will be headed by Oriana. Oriana and Shauna have already moved into the new Multicultural Unit at the State Library.

__Selection Meeting 2010 Update__ The selection meeting for Chinese language materials would be changed from 12 to Friday 13 August. Serbian language materials would also be available in the selection meeting held on 2 August.

__Local Multicultural Supplier List__ The local multicultural supplier list is available on the web www.plmnsw.org.au. Go to “Meetings, Working Groups and Events”, then “Multicultural Library Services Working Group” and then “LOTE Suppliers Directory July 2010”.

Meeting closed at 1.35pm

Next Meeting: The date and venue of the next meeting would be changed from Thursday 26 August at Customs House to Tuesday 24 August at Surry Hills.