78
edits
Changes
no edit summary
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 were offered to the National Library of Australia in Canberra.
[https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/library-in-bloom/ See Michelle Kelley's essay, Library in Bloom], produced through a [https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/srb-frontyard-writers-residency/ Sydney Review of Books/Frontyard residency in 2018].You can do a residency in the library too!
We would like to thank:
* Marrickville Library 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 library Australia Council collection 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 as well as [https://wiki.frontyardprojects.org/everything/Publishing Frontyard's our common publishing imprint(we have ISBNs!]. [https://wiki.frontyardprojects.org/everything/Publishing We can give The Working Group meets regularly, if you an ISBN!] 'd like to get involved, drop us a message via [[Slack|Get in touch with the Library Working Group at the Slack|our #library channel in the Frontyard Slack]]. === Projects === * [[Weeding]]* [[Organising]]* [[New acquisition policy]]* [[Moving to Slims catalogue]]* [[Catalogue Slack| in the ephemera collection]]* [[Become a lending library]]* [[PublishingFrontyard Slack]]
== Catalogue ==