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Frontyard library 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 [[Frontyard]].
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 for lending us some bookends
* Isabelle Hore-Thorburn, Eddie Hopely, Kailana Mia Sommer and Peter Williamson for helping cataloging catalogue this mammoth.* Benjamin Forster, ex-Frontyard Janitor, for salvaging the library and tending it valiantly between 2014 - 2022!
[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 ==
The Library & Publications Working Group (all welcome) tends to the ongoing care and exploration of the library, and anything that residents wish to publish under Frontyard's publishing imprint. [https://wiki.frontyardprojects. org/everything/Publishing We can give you an ISBN!] [[Slack|Get in touch with the Library Working Group at the Slack|#library channel in the Frontyard Slack]].
=== Projects ===