engaging with communities: what indigenous services has done to make the state library of nsw more...

Engaging with Communities:

What Indigenous Services has

done to make the State Library of

NSW more accessible to

Indigenous Australians

Nathan Sentence

26 August 2015

Establishment of the Indigenous Services Branch

Implementing the ATSILIRN

Protocols

• Content and perspectives

• Intellectual Property

• Accessibility and Use

• Description and Classification of Materials

• Secret or Sacred Materials

• Offensive Material

• Governance and Management

• Staffing

• Education and Training for Professional Practice

• Awareness of Aboriginal and Torres Islander Peoples and Issues

• Copying and Repatriation of Records

• The digital environment (ATSILIRN, 2012)

http://atsilirn.aiatsis.gov.au/

Rediscovering Indigenous

Languages Website

Community Engagement

Framework for consultation: National State Libraries of Australasia’s recently developed Community Consultation Framework Working with Communities (2013)

Above: Far Out! presentations across NSW with Learning Services

Above: Darryl Baldwin presenting at the Hidden Gems Symposium

Left: ”Word of the Week” from the Indigenous Services Tumblr Page

Future of the Project

• On going consultation with community

• Continuing digitisation

• Developing the education component

• Creating awareness

• Enhancing user experience

Events and Exhibitions

• NAIDOC Week

• Seniors Week

• Yabun Festival

• 50th Anniversary of the Freedom

Rides @ The State Library

• Far Out with Learning Services

• Family History Workshops

Engaging with Communities:

What Indigenous Services has

done to make the State Library of

NSW more accessible to

Indigenous Australians

Nathan Sentence

26 August 2015