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Annual Report 2017–2018 of the Library Board of Western Australia 66Th Annual Report of the Board 2017–2018 ANNUAL REPORT | PAGE STATE LIBRARY of WESTERN AUSTRALIA 2 2017–2018 ANNUAL REPORT | PAGE STATE LIBRARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1 Annual Report 2017–2018 of the Library Board of Western Australia 66th Annual Report of the Board 2017–2018 ANNUAL REPORT | PAGE STATE LIBRARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 2 Statement of Compliance The State Library of Western Australia Hon. David Templeman MLA Minister for Culture and the Arts COVER IMAGE The State Library building in the In accordance with Section 61 of the Financial Management Act 2006, and in fulfilment Perth Cultural Centre of obligations imposed on the Board by the Library Board of Western Australia Act 1951, we hereby submit for your information and presentation to Parliament the Annual Report of the Library Board of Western Australia for the year ended 30 June 2018. Perth Cultural Centre This Report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Financial 25 Francis Street Management Act 2006, Treasurer’s Instruction 903 and the Annual Reporting Framework Perth Western Australia 6000 2017–2018 issued by the Public Sector Commission. CONTACT US This annual report can be made T (08) 9427 3111 available in other formats on request. T 1800 198 107 It may be copied in whole or in part for non-commercial purposes provided (Western Australian country callers) that the State Library is appropriately F (08) 9427 3256 acknowledged. Annual reports for E [email protected] previous years may be found at s slwa.wa.gov.au Dr Margaret Nowak AM Ms Sonja Heath W slwa.wa.gov.au Chairman Member The State Library of Western Australia acknowledges the traditional owners of Library Board of Western Australia Library Board of Western Australia statelibrarywa country throughout Western Australia and their continuing connection to land 6 September 2018 6 September 2018 and culture. We pay our respects to Elders HOURS OF OPENING past, present and emerging. The Library is honoured to be located on Whadjuk Monday to Thursday 9:00 am to 8:00 pm Country, the ancestral lands of the Friday 9:00 am to 5:30 pm Noongar people. Saturday and Sunday 10:00 am to 5:30 pm Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Public Holidays Closed readers are advised that this document may contain images of deceased people. 2017–2018 ANNUAL REPORT | PAGE STATE LIBRARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1 Contents SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION 2 SECTION 4: SIGNIFICANT ISSUES IMPACTING THE AGENCY 39 Chairman’s Report 2 Chief Executive Officer’s Report 3 SECTION 5: DISCLOSURES AND LEGAL COMPLIANCE 40 Executive Summary 4 Ministerial Directives 40 Other Financial Disclosures 40 SECTION 2: AGENCY OVERVIEW 5 Employment and industrial relations 41 Enabling Legislation 5 Governance Disclosures 41 Responsible Minister 5 Other Legal Requirements 42 Library Board of Western Australia 6 Government Policy Requirements 44 Formal Committees of the Board 8 Agency Structure 9 SECTION 6: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 46 Organisational Chart 9 Performance Management Framework 10 SECTION 7: KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 88 Shared Responsibilities with Other Agencies 11 SECTION 8: ESTIMATES 92 SECTION 3: AGENCY PERFORMANCE 12 The State Library treasures the stories of Western Australia 12 SECTION 9: APPENDICES 96 The State Library champions literacy and learning 22 Staff Members 97 The State Library cultivates creative ideas 26 Staff Achievements 98 The State Library leads the development of the Volunteers 99 Western Australian public library network 31 Service Delivery 100 Strategic Culture 34 Stock 101 2017–2018 ANNUAL REPORT | PAGE STATE LIBRARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 2 SECTION 1 I am pleased to acknowledge our first Earlier in the year, Margaret Allen, Chief Peers: Mr Robert O’Connor QC; Ms Anne Executive Officer and State Librarian, Chairman’s Report Banks-McAllister AM; Ms Susan Parker; was awarded a Public Service Medal Mr Neil Bradley; Ms Elizabeth Frayne; Dr in the Australia Day Honours List “for Many of us take for granted being able to read something like this Pamela Statham Drew and Mr Nick Drew; outstanding public service to the libraries annual report. Indeed, while there are many in the community who Ms Margaret Allen PSM, a donor that wishes sector in Western Australia”. Appointed have excellent literacy proficiency, sadly almost half of working to remain anonymous and The Friends of to her position in 2004, Margaret aged Western Australians do not have the literacy skills needed to Battye Library Inc who became our first has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to libraries and librarianship, meet the demands of everyday life and work. Platinum Peer. A special thank you to the Peers and I look forward to recognising early childhood literacy, Indigenous heritage, copyright and information Research has confirmed that there are Library. It is important to see the library others in the future as we work together science education. links between literacy and other important sector expand and renew so it can continue to make Western Australian stories aspects of life ranging from employment to provide essential community services. accessible to all. I would like to thank Margaret, the to health and community participation. Executive Team and all of the wonderful With a focus on the future, the Board and Another important role undertaken by Literacy is an essential key to opening the staff and volunteers for their hard work Executive Team have developed a Strategic the Board is to recognise excellence and door to much that enriches our lives. and professionalism during what has been Plan for the State Library to take us from innovation in the library sector. As part of another challenging year. Machinery of The Library Board has decided to tackle 2018 to 2022. We have consulted widely this focus, we announced in May the winner Government changes added complexity to this problem. In July 2017 we launched on this with staff and other stakeholders. of the Innovation and Excellence Award, the agency over the past year. However, our landmark document, Literacy Matters: Due to be released in July 2018, the Plan the City of Armadale for its ConnectivED despite this the State Library has continued State Library of Western Australia Literacy will see the Library continue to be a project. Linked to the launch of the NBN to deliver excellent service and welcomed Strategy 2017–2027. Following this, I am place for everyone where transformation in Armadale, ConnectivED was a pilot visitors through its doors to enjoy a wide pleased to report that we are collaborating is encouraged through knowledge and project to provide free portable internet range of activities, services and programs. with other government and non-government new technologies. access to local, disadvantaged Year 11 and 12 students with aspirations of higher To the Library Board, my sincere gratitude organisations to move this strategy forward. Many of the Library’s programs could education. ConnectivED was an excellent for your dedication and enthusiasm over the By championing literacy the State Library is not be delivered without the support of example of public library innovation in past 12 months. We farewelled Councillor demonstrating the critical role that public partners and donors. In December we were libraries play in our communities. pleased to announce a new partnership the delivery of services and removal of the Keith Yong who left the Board in October divide between those in the community that 2017 and offer a warm welcome to Mr Mark Speaking of public libraries, I was pleased with Minderoo Foundation to fund the From can and cannot afford internet connections Casserly and Councillor Jenny Archibald who to see that a new library opened late last Another View project. This exciting project that have become critical to further joined in May 2018. year in Mandurah, Lakelands Library and retraces and reinterprets Sir John Forrest’s education aspirations. Community Centre, the 232nd public library 1874 trek from Geraldton to Adelaide and I look forward with confidence to the in the State. During the year we also saw will culminate in a major exhibition at the I would like to take this opportunity to next financial year and I take pleasure in State Library in 2019. the relocation of the Karratha Library to congratulate a fellow Board Member, submitting the State Library’s Annual Report the City’s Red Earth Arts Precinct and the December was a busy month for Anne Banks-McAllister, on being awarded for 2017–2018. Bullsbrook Library relocated to the Ethel partnerships and donors as we also a Member of the Order of Australia Warren Bullsbrook Community Centre. It launched our Peer of the State Library of in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for is also wonderful to see libraries offering Western Australia program. This significant “significant service to women through roles Dr Margaret Nowak AM something new, like the opening of the program encourages annual giving to advancing gender equality, particularly in Chairman of the Library Board of Innovation Lab in the Mirrabooka Public the Library. local government”. Western Australia 2017–2018 ANNUAL REPORT | PAGE STATE LIBRARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 3 SECTION 1 and the Arts, the Hon David Templeman building. As well as working broadly in the MLA released the Western Australian community to connect Aboriginal culture and Chief Executive Officer’s Report Public Libraries Strategy which identified history and promote reconciliation, the team five priority areas intended to guide the provides invaluable support and assistance In 2017–2018 the State Library welcomed more than 1.1 million continued transformation of public libraries to Aboriginal people by researching family visitors to the building and over 1.2 million online visitors from across to meet the diverse and changing needs histories to identify ancestral information Western Australia and the world, making us again one of the most of Western Australian communities. A and links and support for Native Title visited cultural organisations in Western Australia.
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