Welcome - Oriana Acevedo welcomed attendees to the State Library for this meeting
Election of Office Bearers - No nominations were received therefore Wendy Gindi will remain as Chairperson and Shauna Miller will remain as Secretary until December 2013
Apologies Oliver Coady, Anne Hall, Christa Spruce
Previous Minutes - There were no changes recorded for the previous minutes. The minutes were accepted by Kemal Serdar and seconded by Yan Ping
Meeting Dates and Venues for 2013 meetings
- February 7th, Randwick Library (confirmed)
- May 9th, Auburn Library (tbc)
- August 8th, State Library of NSW (tbc)
- 7th November, State Library of NSW (tbc)
Guest Speakers
Rita Basso–Octopus Kids Rita spoke to the meeting about Octopus Kids and the books and toys that they can supply in Arabic, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. They are a local company situated in Leichhardt. For more information contact Rita at rita77@tpg.com.au or on 04010501829
Australian Bureau of Statistics Anne Bartlett, Assistant Director - NSW Client Services and Prue Rigg, NSW Census Engagement Officer, ABS
Prue spoke to the meeting about Table Builder. Tablebuilder is a product that allows users to construct tables of data. You can create spreadsheets and graphs using any geographic area levels ranging from a single geographic area to the whole of Australia.
You can register online to use TableBuilder- go to the ABS website- www.abs.gov.au and follow the prompts under CENSUS DATA.
Anne Bartlett spoke about the census data itself and how it is collected and what it is used for. To access the Census results go to 111.abs.gov.au or for further help you can contact the National Information and referral Service on 1300135 070
Review of the Strategic Plan (SP)2012-2016 Oriana Oriana discussed the current SP and objectives that are to be met in 2013. Several topics will require committees to be set up to investigate how to achieve the objectives. Action Rosemary Worley volunteered to develop a template to showcase service initiatives.
Project Promotion SBS Partnership-Project Leader, Mirjana Djukic In order to meet the following objectives in the 2012-16 SPO, Mirjana proposed a marketing plan that would involve networking with SBS Radio.
- Objective #: to raise the profile of multicultural services.
- Strategy 1 : Encourage and support the promotion and marketing of services to the CALD community
- Strategy 2 : To raise the profile of the Working Group and improve communication.
Objective 4: To encourage co-operation and networking amongst public libraries, the State Library of NSW and other organisations.
- Strategy : Encourage co-operation. This project will require participation from members of the working group. The group will need to provide feedback on the draft document (Please see attachment) The objective of this project is to provide a generic message about public libraries including information on multicultural library services. When the document has been accepted by the working group, the text will be translated by members in as many languages as possible. Other documents will be created to highlight activities in libraries calendars of events. Action*:
All feedback on the draft document received. Document should be ready for approval at the next meeting on the 7th of February Document translated by members of the working group
Mirjana and Oriana will meet with the SBS Language Programs Manager.
Grant Application - Noel Willis
One of the strategies of the working group was to obtain grant funding for a renewed multilingual marketing campaign in 2013. To this end, Fairfield City Library will submit a Library Development Grant application which is due on the 23rd of November 2012. The main target of this campaign will be on recently arrived migrant communities such as those from Iran, Afghanistan, Africa, Sri Lanka and others. The proposed medium to be used is billboards at key railway stations over a four week period, which with other collateral such as posters, banners, digital signage etc would extend the life of the campaign. The amount requested is $41,750.00 This is a cooperative application and all Sydney public libraries will be invited to participate in the planning and execution of the campaign, assuming that the funding application is successful.
Abby Dawson, Coordinator Multicultural Bulk Loan report
The Bulk Loan Service is going well. It is on target to issue approximately 5000 more items than last year. There has been a recent promotion of less requested languages using the CRC e-link. These languages include, Kurdish, Slovenian, Burmese, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian. Usage of Kurdish is particularly very low this year with only one request received. This collection may be removed from the State Library's collection and offered to Auburn Library or a suitable community group. Abby also spoke about the possibility that bulk loans could contain more than 20 books in collections large enough to accommodate that. Abby will email libraries for their feedback on this proposal. Abby also reported back that the bulk loans team is undertaking a stocktake of the Multicultural Collection in order to clean up the catalogue and remove numerous records of items no longer on the shelves.
Shauna Miller, Coordinator acquisitions report
The majority of orders have been received by the Cooperative and are now with Zenith being catalogued. It is expected that there will be no outstanding orders by February 2013.
CRC National Multicultural Marketing Awards-Health Information in your Language - Oriana Oriana submitted an entry to the CRC. This is an ongoing partnership between public libraries, My Language and NSW Health communities.
Small Community Project-Embracing Diversity- Burmese community
Oriana will work with Parramatta's Burmese community to support a Canadian based project called Embracing Diversity.
Wilbur-DVD and book distribution
520 copies of the Wilbur DVD was distributed to all NSW public libraries and on the 4th of November the accompanying Wilbur books will also be distributed.
Multilingual Glossary- your public library welcomes you The glossary now includes Burmese, Dari, Dinka, Swahili and Nepalese.
ASIC Credit Outreach Team
Peter Lechlein, from ASIC (Australian Security and Investment Commission) spoke to the meeting about credit legislation and ASIC resources such as Money Smart. A variety of fact sheets are available covering topics such as car loans, home loans, rent, banking credit etc. If libraries are interested in organizing a presentation please contact Peter Lechlein- e: peter.lechlein@asic.gov.au
Other Business
there was no other business
Next meeting February 7th @ Randwick Library
Meeting closed at 1:15pm