National Library of Australia releases Strategic Vision 2025-2033
The National Library of Australia shares its future intentions in a newly released document, Treasured: The National Library of Australia Strategic Vision 2025–2033.
Our Strategic Vision offers a panoramic view of our goals and priorities for the next 8 years. As we focus on serving the full diversity of Australia’s community, Trove continues to play a crucial role in making Australia’s stories accessible.
'The National Library of Australia will make it possible for all Australians to connect with their rich national heritage so they can be free to forge their own understandings of identity, culture and place in the world.’
Our Strategic Vision groups our purposes into three core action areas – Collect, Engage and Enable – and outlines our priorities within each.
Priorities include a focus on First Nations Australians, regional, rural and remote Australians and culturally and linguistically diverse people; minimising our environmental footprint; engaging with publishers and independent publishing communities; and using emerging technologies.
We will also continue to work hard to provide safe and inclusive spaces, online and in our Canberra-based building, as exemplified by our Disability Inclusion Action Plan.
‘Our vision is comprehensively geared towards digital accessibility.’
Read a summary of these action areas on the National Library’s website.
The face of Australian culture
Our collections tell Australia’s stories for Australians. We are driven to transform public access to those stories by bringing our collections online for everyone – all the time and for all time. Our goal is for all Australians to engage with cultural collections without barriers, fostering a strong connection to Australia’s cultural history.
Trove is an essential piece of national cultural infrastructure that provides democratised access to Australian history, culture and knowledge. By sharing our collections digitally through Trove, we are creating a trusted online source for this information in an era of online misinformation.
‘We envision Trove as a platform for the entire cultural sector, supported by services such as National eDeposit (NED) and digitised content.’
Our role in the national cultural policy
The Australian Government’s national cultural policy Revive: A Place for Every Story. A Story for Every Place seeks to reposition Australia’s arts, culture and heritage sectors as central to the country’s future.
Our Strategic Vision outlines the enormous part we play and strongly supports the five foundational pillars of Revive: First Nations First, A Place for Every Story, Centrality of the Artist, Strong Cultural Infrastructure, and Engaging the Audience.
‘The importance of First Nations First weaves strongly through all our work and is evident in our efforts to collect and share First Nations-led stories, with Trove a vital digital resource for this purpose.’
Trove also plays a pivotal role in ‘Engaging the Audience.’
‘Trove exemplifies our leadership in digital heritage preservation and public access to national collections, engaging the public through partnerships and philanthropic initiatives.’
Find the full Treasured: The National Library of Australia Strategic Vision 2025–2033 document.