MWG meeting @ Liverpool Lib 26th Feb 2025
Apologies
Stella Tay(Cumberland) Julie Parkinson (Sutherland) Mary Loveland (Northern Beaches) Stephanie Lee (Bayside) Vivien Chung (Willoughby)
Attendees
Eugenia Ng (Burwood),Joanna Goh (SLNSW),Shauna Miller (SLNSW), Abby Dawson (SLNSW), Cathy Zhai (Hornsby Library), Sung Jung Yoon (Strathfield), Svendrini Seneviratne (Fairfield City Open Libraries), Katherine Zhu (Randwick), Helen Williams (Inner West), Fujing Zhao (Ku-ring-gai), Marilyn Shamayil (Bankstown Library), Jenny Zhang (City of Sydney), Jadwiga Krejza (Liverpool City Libraries), Joelmon Zungar (Blacktown), Sharlene Louey (City of Sydney), Paul Nicholas (MRCC Silverwater), Kathy Yang (Ryde), Vanessa Maino (Ryde), Camilia ? (Blacktown), Sharon Smith (Riverina) Judy Hannah (Canada Bay)
Acknowledgement of country – Helen Williams
Matters arising - nil
Abby Dawson accepted the minutes and Joelmon Zungar seconded them
Multicultural Services Report (JG)
Multicultural Bulk Loan stock update Still a long wait for Portuguese junior and Arabic junior and YA. If you have overdue loans or unused loans in these languages, please return them to the SLNSW. Helen Willliams offered loans from their Portuguese collection. Fairfield also offered can borrow books from them as well.
· New stock of books available for French (junior only), Swedish, Maltese, Croatian and Danish.
MARC Records of loans from SLNSW
· The SLNSW is not able to supply MARC records with your bulk loans or long-term loans.
· Our staff processing the loans do not have the security access for that and it is also not practical for the volume of loans we process each day.
· Libraries that want MARC records of titles from the SLNSW collection can choose to get them through one of the following ways:
Option 1 – Australian Libraries Gateway
If your library has a systems administrator who can make changes to your library management system, they can set up the SLNSW catalogue as a target for Z39.50 searches and download SLNSW catalogue records.
This does not require a password and is free of charge.
Z39.50 details for SLNSW: https://www.nla.gov.au/apps/libraries/?action=ZSvcDetails&zsid=74420&orgid=9038
Option 2 - Libraries Australia
If your library has a Libraries Australia subscription, you can source the MARC records from there. Search by Title.
There is a long wait for bulk loans of Portuguese and Arabic books due to lack of available book stock. Joanna encouraged libraries to return books in these languages if they are no longer required.
Logging into SLNSW catalogue
Joanna advised on how libraries can log into the SLNSW catalogue. Log into the SLNSW catalogue using your libraries registered email address and then you set up a password. Once in you can check the loans that are currently checked out to your library. If you require a full list of loans or lost items contact Joanna who can provide you with this information. Joanna Goh.(joanna.goh@sl.nsw.gov.au) Log in to check your State Library of NSW loans
· New guide available to download from the Wiki. https://wiki.libraries.nsw.gov.au/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=state_library_of_nsw_single-sign-on.pdf
· IMPORTANT NOTE: Claimed returned and Lost items are included in the loans list that you see on the catalogue, but they are not obvious.
· We recommend that libraries contact us directly for a complete record of your loans and renewal requests. mc.bulk.loans@sl.nsw.gov.au
Overdue Notices- This has just been turned on. Some libraries may have received overdue notices. This is meant as a courtesy reminder. If you need a more concise list of the loans that are overdue please contact Joanna
Community Language Directory When you search the directory there has been a glitch in the number of holdings and languages It is hoped that this matter will be rectified shortly. Please note DVDs or eresources are not included in these stats. The numbers recorded per library are meant to be indicative and not an actual number of items held
Multilingual Signage Tool . The committee will meet again before the draft list will be circulated to this group for discussion.
Khmer supplier Svenrini from Fairfield is trying to find a supplier of books in this Khmer. If you can help please let her know.
Multilingual Signage Tool Shauna discussed the progress of the meeting with the sub committee (Cathy Zhai, Kathy Yang, Jenny Zhang, Shauna Miller and Stephanie Lee) and they have suggested that 26 words need to be removed, 23 were unsure, and 22 new words/phrases should be added.
General Business
Inner West Library Lunar New Year program included Bilingual Storytimes in Mandarin and Vietnamese; Qigong/Tai Chi class; & Chinese Drumming for children
Liverpool Library Jadwiga – Asked where does the SLNSW get their Language codes from. They use the LC Marc Code list of Languages https://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/language_code.html
Ryde Library Kathy Yang – Spoke about Ryde’s very successful lunar new year program. Their English conversation classes are over subscribed and they will be holding several programs for Seniors Week. In addition they are holding a Reusable nappies workshops and information on Multicultural Health
Canterbury/Bankstown Library Canterbury is preparing Harmony week celebrations this includes Harmony Café and Henna tattoo, World dancing workshops, bilingual story time and face painting A new program called Arabic Women’s Friendship Group will be held twice a month on Fridays from 10am-1pm. We Fishes celebrating Lunar New Year (year of the snake) with more than 110 people attended Bankstown celebration. This included, Chinese & Japanese dancing and singing, calligraphy work shop, Chinese art exhibition finished with food from Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese cultures. On 25 March, they will celebrate Greek Independent Day at Earlwood Library. In our Let’s Go series, this year we are up to Let’s Go Italian, from August to October, this may include a concert, dancing and singing workshop, opening with musicians and performers from the Italian culture.
Blacktown Library – Celebrated International Mother Language Day Annual Multicultural March events will be held in the library. Please contact Joelmon for more details
Bayside Library Started weekly Mongolian group meetings and English classes for this group . As well as information on events and services across the LGA including. Tenancy, domestic violence , as, healthy eating for children and employment services. Bayside also held a cultural crafts programme as well as a Chinese Calligraphy Group.
Randwick • Is holding Multicultural March/ Harmony Week events including • International Film Screening in LOTE • art and craft for children from all over the world and in different cultures Greek rhythm time – new this has increased the number of loans. Possibly starting a new programme in Portuguese. Katherine spoke about Ethnolink and the services they provide including translations, research and marketing https://www.ethnolink.com.au/
City of Sydney Jenny The City of Sydney celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year and had extended lib hours for this period
Fairfield Adult reading programme. One on one sessions They have started Khmer and Vietnamese language classes Celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year including a lion dance workshop and special storytime
The meeting finished at 12.30
** Next meeting will be held on Thursday the 15th of May at the State Library of NSW in the Michael Couch Room, Ground Floor Mitchell Wing. The meeting will start at 10:00am