Next week is Children's Book Week in Australia.
The winning and honour books of the Children's Book of the Year Awards will be announced Friday 18 August. ALG hosts the Australian digitisation projects site which aims to record and make accessible information about digitisation projects undertaken by Australian cultural organisations. This site has recently been enhanced by the addition of some Principles of digitisation which have been developed by the Digitisation Subgroup of the Corporate Information Technology Working Group. The Group represents nine national cultural heritage institutions in the ACT, and reports to the Federal Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Access to digitisation project information in ALG As well as the Australian digitisation projects site mentioned above, there are currently 25 libraries in ALG with links to their own digitisation projects.