Library Board of Victoria Annual Report 09–10 Library Board of Victoria Annual Report 2009–10 1 Accountable Officer’s declaration In accordance with the Financial Management Act 1994, I am pleased to present the Library Board of Victoria’s Annual Report for the year ending 30 June 2010. John Cain President, Library Board of Victoria Library Board of Victoria Annual Report 2009–10 Published by the State Library of Victoria 328 Swanston Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Also published on slv.vic.gov.au © State Library of Victoria 2010 This publication is copyright. No part may be reproduced by any process except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968. Authorised by the Victorian Government 328 Swanston Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Printed by Impact Digital Units 3–4, 306 Albert Street Brunswick 3056 2 Library Board of Victoria Annual Report 09/10 Contents 04 Vision and Values Financials 05 Highlights of the year 48 Auditor General’s report 08 Report of operations 50 Risk attestation 20 Financial summary 51 Library Board of 21 2009–10 Key Victoria letter Performance Indicators 53 Financial report for year 22 Service Agreement with ended 30 June 2010 the Minister for the Arts 58 Notes to the 24 Government Priority financial statements Areas 2009–10 26 Output framework 29 Library Board and Corporate Governance 36 Library Executive 37 Organisational structure 38 Reconciliation of executive officers 39 Financial management 40 Public sector values and employment principles 41 Statement of workforce data and merit and equity 42 Environmental performance 43 Diversity and access 44 Freedom of information 45 Whistleblowers Protection Act 2001 46 Consultancies 47 Disclosure index 3 Vision and Values Vision Collaboration Respect We strive to create an open Victorians will have ready access We work together and with partners, and caring community by valuing to a comprehensive collection of sharing knowledge and resources and supporting individuals, Victorian documentary material and to advance universal access and acknowledging the strength to worldwide information resources to information. of diversity. to enrich their cultural, educational, Engagement social and economic lives. We work to understand, connect and Values meet the needs and expectations of our communities in the most The Library’s work in achieving appropriate ways. this vision is informed by the following values: Excellence We provide an outstanding service Innovation at all times in a professional and We recognise and embrace new ethical manner. technologies, ideas and opportunities to improve, grow and develop as individuals and as industry leaders in a challenging environment. 4 Library Board of Victoria Annual Report 09/10 Highlights of the Year The Library Board of Victoria the ABC Fora portal. This coverage 2009 endorses the ICT Disaster Recovery reinforces the Library’s role as a Plan in conjunction with the State significant location for national debate. July Library’s Business Continuity Plan. The 2009 Victorian Premier’s Literary The Hon. John Cain and the The ICT Disaster Recovery Plan Awards are presented at a gala Library’s Manager, Public Libraries, incorporates a shared services dinner held in association with the participate in the Public Libraries model with Museum Victoria. Melbourne Writers Festival. National Summit, convened in Canberra by media coverage of the awards attracts the Australian Library and Information September $977,383 in media value. This is the Association, to begin work on a The Library Board of Victoria’s final year in which the awards are national framework for Australian Advisory Committee on Public administered by the Library. public libraries. Libraries meets in the Latrobe Valley The 2009 Redmond Barry Lecture is as a demonstration of its concern October presented to a capacity audience and support for library services in Ten archaeological objects from the by Professor Fred Mendelsohn AO, bushfire-affected areas. Glenrowan Siege dig site, on loan Honorary Senior Research Fellow The touring version of the State from the City of Wangaratta, are at the Florey Neuroscience Institute, Library’s exhibition The Independent installed in The Changing Face of on ‘Our Plastic Brains: Implications Type: Books and Writing in Victoria Victoria exhibition. for development, adaptation is launched at Traralgon Library. and regeneration’. The State Library’s Shared Leadership Developed in partnership with Public Program is extended to Victoria’s The Library continues to gain national Libraries Victoria Network, the public library leaders of the future. broadcast coverage of its collections exhibition will travel to 18 public Twenty participants attend the first and staff. A particular highlight: library services around Victoria ten-day program and complete the Library is featured in an ABC over two years, with the support learning projects designed to documentary, Ned Kelly Uncovered, of Major Touring Initiative funding support the development of the which is televised on ABC1 and from Arts Victoria. public library network. attracts $345,000 in media value. The Library’s new search engine, Museum Victoria becomes a shared Staff workshops are held to determine called Search, is released. It provides services customer of the Library, priority actions for Environmental a friendly interface for user discovery, going live with the Voyager Integrated Sustainability projects, with a very and is designed to empower users Library System. This arrangement enthusiastic response. to locate what they want more easily, provides Museum Victoria’s Library whether in print or online. with access to their own Voyager August The 2009 Stephen Murray Smith bibliographic database to manage their library collection and enables Voting opens online for the Centre lecture is presented by Professor the them to offer web access to their for Youth Literature’s international Hon. Gareth Evans AO QC, President catalogue, their staff and the general awards for teenage literature, the Inky Emeritus of the International Crisis public. The project takes advantage Awards, with the winners announced Group, on the subject ‘The Challenge of the economies of scale offered by in November 2009. of Nuclear Disarmament’. the shared services model. Literary Melbourne: A Celebration The 2009 Keith Murdoch Oration is of Writing and Ideas is published in delivered by Hugh Evans, Director association with Hardie Grant Books, of the Global Poverty Project, and with funding from Arts Victoria. broadcast nationally on ABC2 TV and made available online through 5 November December February Wholly collection-based and written ‘Til you drop: shopping – a Melbourne Research Guides are launched. by Children’s Literature Librarian History is officially opened by Lady These online publications are Juliet O’Conor, Bottersnikes and Southey. This exhibition celebrates designed to support user self- Other Lost Things: A Celebration of Melbourne’s passion for shopping sufficiency, improve access to Australian Illustrated Children’s and explores the city’s social history Library collections and improve Books is published in association through retail and the Library’s users’ information literacy. They with The Miegunyah Press. collections. The exhibition will be document librarians’ knowledge of open until the end of October 2010. both resources and research strategy. The Library hosts three major events for the communications, The Camperdown Chronicle is The Hon. John Brumby MP, Premier library and education sectors the first regional title to be digitised of Victoria, formally hands over the that explore the challenges and under the Library’s Digitising 2009 Victorian Bushfire Message opportunities presented by the Victorian Newspapers program. Book Collection to the State Library technological revolution. More Under this program, 50 Victorian of Victoria. Following the devastating than 500 delegates attend The Big regional newspapers will be 2009 Victorian bushfires, the people Issues: Public libraries, learning, digitised and made accessible of Australia were invited to express technology and social inclusion; on the nationwide Australian their sympathy and support by writing New Media in Government; and Newspapers service, hosted by messages on pages that were made Perpetual Possibility: Challenges the National Library of Australia. available at many venues throughout of learning with new media in the country, including the Library. connected communities. The Library receives two Arts Portfolio Together with messages sent from Leadership Awards in the Growing around the world, these pages The Library presents a special Global Communities category – for the were assembled to form 60 bound forum on the subject of ‘Ned Kelly Somali Book Fair, and for Orthographic message books. Unearthed’. A large audience Mapping for the Harari language. hears from a panel of specialists An Audience Development award is The 2010 Rare Books Summer School that includes historian Clare Wright, granted for the Library’s audience is held at the Library, offering a range author Ian Jones, archeaologist development strategy for students of intensive five-day courses for Adam Ford, historian Alex McDermott from disadvantaged schools. librarians, collectors, academics and curator Elizabeth Marsden. and researchers from Australia and New Zealand. Vicnet launches the PLEASED 2010 website – a high-quality web portal The Open Access Program is for public library staff with information January launched to provide