{"id":1376,"date":"2016-12-08T01:23:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2016-12-08T01:23:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:23:27","slug":"indigenous-spaces-in-library-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2016\/12\/08\/indigenous-spaces-in-library-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Spaces in Library Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1377\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2016\/12\/Monica-and-Kirsten.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1377\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1377\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2016\/12\/Monica-and-Kirsten-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Monica Galassi and Kirsten Thorpe from the Indigenous Services Unit launch the Strategy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2016\/12\/Monica-and-Kirsten-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2016\/12\/Monica-and-Kirsten.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monica Galassi and Kirsten Thorpe from the Indigenous Services Unit launch the Strategy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/\">State Library of New South Wales <\/a>(NSW) in Sydney (Australia) recently launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/indigenous-spaces\"><em>Indigenous Spaces in Library Places<\/em><\/a>\u00a0a strategy to provide Indigenous services across the State&#8217;s public library network. The program&#8217;s goal is to create interest and awareness on the way libraries across the state can engage and support Indigenous peoples and communities.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content--our-main-objectives-\">The \u00a0main objectives revolve around the concepts of Welcome, Support, Share, Include, Build and Collaborate and the Strategy (which can be downloaded from the website) provides practical and thoughtful assistance in implementing these.<\/p>\n<p>A cohort of public librarians from across NSW are currently participating in <a href=\"https:\/\/ccca.com.au\/?ReturnUrl=%2fcomponent-overview%3fLCID%3d18275%26ComponentID%3d2750\">Aboriginal Cultural Competence Training <\/a>as part of this initiative with feedback from participants demonstrating strong engagement with the content.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Library of New South Wales (NSW) in Sydney (Australia) recently launched Indigenous Spaces in Library Places\u00a0a strategy to provide Indigenous services across the State&#8217;s public library network. The program&#8217;s goal is to create interest and awareness on the way libraries across the state can engage and support Indigenous peoples and communities. The \u00a0main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9774,22917,22916],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-australia","tag-indigenous-spaces","tag-satte-library-of-new-south-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}