The #Frontyard library channel in is an extensive arts collection, founded on the decommissioned Australia Council for the Arts Research Library, and a growing collection of works relating to and generated by people who've spent time at [[Slack|Frontyard Slack]] is used for discussing the library.
== About The Australia Council’s library was decommissioned in November 2014 due to very low usage levels over a sustained period. While the collection ==was small, the Council endeavoured to have key materials remain publicly available through donations to other libraries. Items that were unique to the Australia Council collection were offered to the National Library of Australia in Canberra.
Frontyard has [https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/library-in-bloom/ See Michelle Kelley's essay, Library in Bloom], produced through a non[https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/srb-lending libraryfrontyard-writers-residency/ Sydney Review of Books/Frontyard residency in 2018]. It is founded on the decommissioned Australia Council Research Library and is now You can do a growing collection of material related to, and generated by, residency in the Australian arts community.library too!
''NoteWe would like to thank: The Australia Council’s library was decommissioned in November 2014 due to very low usage levels over a sustained period. While the collection was small the Council has endeavoured to have key materials remain publicly available through donations to other libraries. Items that were unique to the Australia Council collection have been offered to the National Library of Australia in Canberra.''
== * The Australia Council for the Arts and Rachel Smithies and Amanda Coombes in particular for their generous donation of the collection to [[Frontyard]].* Marrickville Library Projects ==for lending us some bookends* Isabelle Hore-Thorburn, Eddie Hopely, Kailana Mia Sommer and Peter Williamson for helping catalogue this mammoth.* Benjamin Forster, ex-Frontyard Janitor & Chief Librarian, for salvaging the Australia Council collection and tending it valiantly between 2014 - 2022!
* [[Weeding]https://www.frontyardprojects.org/library/Decommission%20Remaining%20Book%20Collection%20-%20Incomplete%20%282015-06-12%29.xlsx An incomplete list of items at the time of decommissioning is available]. Not all the items listed are within the collection. == Library & Publications Working Group == * [[OrganisingThe Library & Publications Working Group]]tends to the ongoing care and exploration of the library, as well as [https://wiki.frontyardprojects.org/everything/Publishing our common publishing imprint (we have ISBNs!]* . The Working Group meets regularly, if you'd like to get involved, drop us a message via [[New acquisition policyour #library channel]]* [[Build a reading/writing desk Slack| in the library windowFrontyard Slack]]* == Catalogue == [[Catalogue https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IMTYu5F9psAe4sPoeUukPdNY-qRq-LZaDIjl3eV2DC8/pubhtml View the ephemera collection]catalogue spreadsheet]. BOOKS ARE FOR USE.* [ EVERY READER [Become a lending library]THEIR]BOOK. EVERY BOOK ITS READER. SAVE THE TIME OF THE USER. THE LIBRARY IS A GROWING ORGANISM.* [[Publishing]] (S. R. Ranganathan, 1931)
