On Tuesday 25 October 2005 the State Library of Western Australia and the Western Australian Local Government Association hosted a Forum to explore best practice in service delivery, investigate resource-sharing and collocation opportunities and stimulate thinking on the future role of public libraries. The Forum is the first step towards developing strategies that will put a newly created vision for public libraries into practice.

You can view presentations from the Forum:

• Sue Sutherland - Director of Policy and Information Democracy, National Library of New Zealand
  Local Government Budget Allocation for Libraries (694 KB PDF file)
  Explanatory Notes (23 KB PDF File)
  
  
• Fatimah Sulaiman - Senior Manager, Public Library Services Group, National Library Board, Singapore
  Online Services (4.3 MB PDF file)
  
  
• Mal Bryce - Chairman, iVEC and Chairman, Telecentre Advisory Council
  From Collocation to Integration (412 KB PDF file)
  
  
• Adele Kenneally - Glenelg Libraries Library Manager
  Learning Communities and Regionalisation in Victoria (351 KB PDF file)
  
  
• Sandi Taylor - Manager Strategic Partnerships, Indigenous Library Services, State Library of Queensland
  Indigenous Knowledge Centres (1.53 MB PDF file)
  Explanatory Notes (28KB PDF File)
  
  
• Sharan Harvey - Manager, Brisbane City Council Library Services
  Future Roles of Public Librarians (1.16 MB PDF file)
  

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