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The State Library of Victoria today

Heather Evans

Customer Service & Operations Manager

State Library of Victoria

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Massive change in the last five years

SLV21 project aimed to transform us into a 21st Century library more responsive to today’s user expectations

Now we are much larger

Information Centre

Arts Reading Room

La Trobe Reading Room

Cowen Gallery

Onsite we have galleries, programs for new audiences,and 102 internet computers

Online we have adopted some of the innovations and spirit of web 2.0

We offer a much more variedvisitor experience

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• Use databases at home if you are a Victorian user

• Order books in advance

• Order copies and receive them electronically

• Send feedback

• Read and contribute to our blogs

• Access research guides

And you can do so much more from home

• Needs screen dump of research guide

You can look at any of the nearly 300,000 individual heritage items we’ve digitised so far

You can visit SLV websites such as the Centre for Youth Literature’s ‘inside a dog’

• slvch@t offers real time web-based reference service

• We can push through websites and send links

• Transcripts are available

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If you do come in to the Library you’ll find:

Free internet access on Library computers or via WiFi

Experimedia – a place to relax and explore new media

Experimedia – a place to attend Outside-In Cinema nights

Experimedia – a place to take your child to Storytime

Also in Experimedia you’ll find

• The media wall

• iMacs with creative software

• Children’s computers, and…

The PlayPod

We cater for cultural tourism with beautiful exhibitions

We offer activities for school groups based on Victoria’s heritage

• Accessibility audit completed in 2010

• Vicnet works to strengthen communities including people with disabilities e.g. IT Enables Conference

We’ve made our services more accessible to people with disabilities

The assistive technology room

Creative Fellowships

Creation of new works

inspired by the collections

Where to from here for theState Library of Victoria?

We aim to transform our culture - to support innovation, exploration and emerging technologies. We aspire to expose our content through more discovery tools and external online resources, making our content accessible to everyone.

Re-imagining Libraries: Delivering services in a digital world

by Wendy Quihampton, National & State Libraries Australasia

We are approaching a time when the surviving examples of print culture will have to be consolidated to insure their preservation, and that an ethic of protection, rather than access, needs to be adopted by those who will oversee the approaching distillation of our heritage.

Heritage Distillation: Evolving from the Library to the Museum of the Book by Kim Allen Scott, Montana State University

The State Library of Victoria by nature will continue to have a dual role to provide access and to preserve Victorian heritage items.

Keep learningkeep adaptingKeep developing partnerships

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