Public libraries in Australia are experimenting with inventive ways to attract new members — but a lack of funding means they must do more with less.

In one of Australia's hottest towns, the library is an important air-conditioned public space offering a no-cost respite from ...

Other services are increasingly telling clients that their local library can help them, and staff there are coming under pressure Lizzie Flaherty works in a library, but she’s not a librarian.

Heather L. Robinson has a library card for the Hepburn Library Network. Public engagement with library programs and events has increased by one million. Loans of books, DVDs and other items are at ...

SYDNEYSYDNEY — Australian researchers sifting papers belonging to the author of “Schindler’s List” discovered a yellowing roll of 801 men saved from the Holocaust by the German industrialist – the ...

SYDNEY, April 7 (Reuters Life!) - A list of Jews saved from the Nazi death camps during World War II by the German industrialist Oskar Schindler has been found in research notes at an Australian ...

A new study has revealed that Australia's public libraries are struggling to adequately support people with print disabilities, leaving a significant portion of the population without access to ...

Softlink is one of the largest digital ebook distribution systems for libraries in Australia. It is one of Overdrive’s main business partners and does fairly brisk business in schools, libraries, and ...

Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in ...