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ARC Funded Projects
The Role of Public Library Services for a Changing Rural Australia
Designing for communities with communities
Australian Public Libraries and Social Capital: An Exploratory Study
Public libraries supporting people experiencing homelessness
‘Value of Libraries’ Projects
Designing for communities with communities: Co-designing public libraries
Public libraries supporting people experiencing homelessness
Evaluating public library community engagement and impact
From Scrolls to Gadgets & Multimodal Learning
A critical investigation into gap between health libraries’ expectations and early career health librarians’ skills and knowledge
Voices of change: Harnessing LIS Student Insights to Transform Information Literacy Education with Gen AI and Universal Design for Learning
Essential connections: School and public library co-operation for children
Information seeking behaviours of prisoners
Community engagement and marginalized communities
Co-designing an intergenerational arts program for CALD Australian communities (funded by Arts and Health Alliance)
Understanding the information journeys in various real work and complex life situations
Exploring the overlap of information, leisure and wellbeing through beekeeping and apitourism as serious leisure
A critical investigation into gap between health libraries’ expectations and early career health librarians’ skills and knowledge
Multi-species Information Science
School library research projects
Evaluating Critical, Digital and AI Literacy in Primary School Education
Libraries, archives, and records placements from four perspectives
An analysis of digital safety net and service costing for public libraries
‘Making Collections More Visible’ Projects
Libraries, Power, and Policing
Evaluating the Library of Congress genre/form terms
Hazel Smith, poet without language: A digital archive and retrospective
Knowledge Bank of Australian and New Zealand School Libraries
Open access policy intent, development, and maintenance at Australian universities
‘The Virago Archive’
Completed Projects
Australian public libraries during the COVID-19 crisis: Implications for future policy and practice
Australian public library mission statements
Information seeking behaviours of prisoners
Libraries and librarianship in Indonesia: The past and present
Understanding the changing nature of information literacy in Australian high school education
Bonsai Growing as a Form of Serious Leisure and a Source of Wellbeing
First-language reading and wellbeing
Greening libraries: Sustainability in libraries
Embracing the cultural identity of burgeoning ethnic groups in regional public libraries
The impact of public library closures during COVID
Juvenile justice libraries
Social cataloguing revisited
Usage patterns of public libraries’ resources
Librarian role development in the digital era
Knowledge Bank of Australian and New Zealand School Libraries
From books to bots: Scaffolding ethical and critical use of generative artificial intelligence
Investigating school students’ strategies for evaluating online information
Unpacking librarians’ pedagogical competence in university information literacy programs: A pilot study
Understanding the needs of public library users in a COVID-changed Australia
Researchers
Dr Waseem Afzal
Dr Sindiso Bhebhe
Dr Mary Carroll
Dr Helen Cheung
Dr Anita Dewi
Dr Tina Du
Krystal Gagen-Spriggs
Dr Jane Garner
Dr Kasey Garrison
Dr Philip Hider
Dr Hamid Jamali
Dr Kit Kavanagh-Ryan
Dr Mary Anne Kennan
Dr Deborah Lee
Dr Yazdan Mansourian
Dr Kay Oddone
Dr Asim Qayyum
Dr Holly Randell-Moon
Dr Monique Shephard
Dr Niloofar Solhjoo
Dr Vi Truong
Dr Simon Wakeling
Dr Joy Wallace
Dr Sabine Wardle
ARC Funded projects
The Role of Public Library Services for a Changing Rural Australia
Project aims and background
Outputs from the project
Project Blog
Designing for Communities with Communities
Project aims and background
Outputs
Project blog posts
Blog post March 2023
Blog Post April 2024
Blog Post Nov. 2025
Australian Public Libraries and Social Capital: An Exploratory Study
Project aims and background
Outputs from the project
Public libraries supporting people experiencing homelessness
Publications
LRG Blog
Codesigning public libraries project launches its Toolkit
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