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Working group Multicultural services in libraries
Minutes
Location: Korean Cultural Centre
Date: 9 May 2023 Time: 1:00pm
Chair: Sujatha Thadakamalla Minutes: Jadwiga Krejza Liverpool Library
Attending: Oriana Acevedo (State Library), Shauna Miller (State Library), Mary Loveland (Northern Beaches), Venessa Maino (Ryde), Ayse Ersoy (Waverley),Stephanie Lee (Bayside), Katherine Zhu (Randwick), Eugenie Ng (Burwood), Matilda Wong (Ryde), Hwiwan Yang (Ryde), Fujing Zhao (Ku - Ring- Gai), Helen Williams (Inner West), Irena Tichackova (Hornsby), Jenny Zhang (Sydney), Sharlene Louey (Sydney), Joelman Zungar(Blacktown Library), Julie Parkinson (Sutherland Shire), Faranak Kazemimajd (Woolongong),Tanoja Fernando (Woolongong), Stella Tay (Camberland), Merui Fittler (Woolongong)Thank Luu (Canterbury Library).
Apologies: Sarah (Canada Bay), Mary Gissing (Newcastle), Kathy (Randwick), Abby (SLNSW).
Before commencing of the meeting, the Working Group was invited to preview the exhibition in the Korean Cultural Centre.
The exhibition, Wordless Picture Books by 7 artists from Korea, tiled - Wonder will be on display 9 may till 7 July 2023. The members of the group were privileged to meet two of the artists and listen to their stories about creating the art works.
The minutes from previous meeting to be accepted by Irena and seconded Helen (Inner West). The minutes from November meeting to be accepted by Irena and seconded Helen (Inner West).
Matters arising from previous minutes.
Multicultural Excellence Award. CAVAL has provided $1,000 award to be given to the winning organisation. Individual Awards winners will receive a certificate, to be recognised for hard work and information sharing.
Ther will be two organisational awards of $750 each. The categories are for library servicing population over 100 000 and another for servicing under 100 000 population.
The original PLN document regarding awarding the prizes will be reviewed to acknowledge the changes.
PLN still to nominate a Library manager to work with Working Group.
NPLA has a new website.
Other Business
Sujatha suggested to approach Ross Barrie to include in the Consortium resources that support the Multicultural community, such as Cloud Library.
Johanne Goh is back in the team - Multicultural Services at the State Library.
Oriana is retiring in June. Good luck Oriana!
New bookmarks about the bulk loans and Multicultural Services are being prepared and will be send to the libraries.
There were difficulties with accessing Library reports on State Library website reported by Sujatha.
Multicultural Heath week - https://multiculturalhealthweek.com/
New collection - Tibetan language.
launch at Dee Why Library on 3 June 2023.
Suppliers seminars cancelled.
Canterbury Library is preparing a special event - Ukrainian celebration to be run in July.
Meeting ended: 3:25pm.
Next meeting: Whitlam Library, Thursday, 23 August 2023, 10:00am start.