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Working Group on Multicultural Services (NSW) Annual report- 202
Profile of the Working Group: The Working Group on Multicultural Services on NSW was established in June 1983. The groups role is to promote the provision of library resources and services to the multicultural community and bring together together the collections and to provide professional expertise, resources and services that meet the needs of the CALD community.
Chairperson: Sujatha Thadakamalla, Fairfield City Open Libraries
Secretary: Jadwiga Krejza, Liverpool Library
State Library of NSW Representatives: Oriana Acevedo, Shauna Miller, Joanna Goh/Abby Dawson
Guest Speakers:
Achievements:
ALIA Multicultural Working Group: Oriana initiated the conversation to form a group that is inclusive of people working in different areas, providing services to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities (CALD). ALIA established and launched ALIA Multicultural in November 2022, with an aim to facilitate networking, support, professional development and resources for the information sector with a focus on culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
Visit the webpage ALIA Multicultural for more information on the news, events and resources, including research and community information – resources across the states and ACT.
Oriana Acevedo, Multicultural Services Consultant, SLNSW announced her retirement in June 2023. She has been an inspiration to many librarians, especially multicultural service librarians with incredible enthusiasm and spirit always looking at projects to improve the services we offer to the diverse community of New South Wales. We will miss her. Multilingual glossary: Looking at wider review of the glossary to update with new terms.
Tibetan Language Collection Launch: In collaboration with the State Library NSW, Northern Beaches Council launched Tibetan language collection at Dee Why library.
Strategic Plan:
Multicultural Excellence Awards-winners:
The Multicultural Excellence Awards are awarded annually by the Working Group on Multicultural Library Services (WGMLS), a working group of the NSW public libraries network. The awards recognise a public library service and an individual practitioner for demonstrated excellence in the delivery of multicultural library services. This years awards were presented to: • Albury Council Library • Ryde Council Library