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Annual Report 2007-08
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Annual Report

The Annual Report records the Library's many achievements during the year. It also provides information about the structure, operation and governance of the Library, and includes the year's financial statements.

Annual Report 2007-08

This year's annual report can be viewed by downloading the PDF documents below or consulting a hard copy version of the report in the Library's Information Centre. The report will also be available soon through our Online Shop.

   Full report PDF 6.8mb

   Section 1: Cover, Contents, Key reports, Vision and values (p1-9) PDF 1.6mb

  • Cover
  • Table of contents
  • President's message
  • CEO's year in review
  • Vision and values.

  Section 2: 'The Medieval Imagination' (p10-17) PDF 635kb 

  Section 3: Key reports (p18-27) PDF 886kb

  • Highlights of the year 
  • Financial summary
  • Key performance indicators
  • Service agreement with the Minister for the Arts
  • Government priority areas
  • Output framework.

  Section 4: Collections, content and information resources (p28-37) PDF 938kb

  • Digitisation of the collection
  • Digital storage and management capacity
  • Building the collection
  • Conservation and preservation
  • Physical storage
  • Expansion of online resources.

  Section 5: Access and engagement (p38-49) PDF 682kb

  • Reconfiguration of the Library's online and onsite service model
  • Marketing
  • Research and statistics: online services and trends
  • Customer research and feedback
  • Events and exhibitions
  • Vicnet: Reshaping the business model
  • Developing targeted learning services for students
  • Communications
  • Publishing
  • Creative fellowships.

  Section 6: Infrastructure, skills and partnerships (p50-61) PDF 565kb

  • Redefining our role as leaders in the library sector
  • Building commercial and philanthropic relationships
  • State Library of Victoria Foundation
  • Identifying opportunities for collaboration
  • Strengthening corporate capability
  • Financial management
  • Major contracts
  • Victorian Industry Participation Policy
  • National competitive neutrality
  • Compliance with building and maintenance provisions of Building Act 1993
  • Library redevelopment
  • Technology services
  • Web services
  • Applications development and services.

  Section 7: Library Board and corporate governance (p62-79) PDF 944kb

  • Library Board and corporate governance
  • Library Executive
  • Organisational structure
  • Reconciliation of Executive Officers
  • OH&S performance measurements
  • Public sector values and employment principles
  • Statement of workforce data
  • Office-based environmental impacts
  • Diversity and access
  • Freedom of information
  • Whistleblowers Protection Act 2001
  • Disclosure index.

  Section 8: Financial statements (p80-95) PDF 948kb

  • Auditor General's report
  • Risk attestation
  • Financials
  • Notes to the financial statements.

  Independent auditor's report PDF 167kb

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Visit our annual reports archive to view reports from previous years.

 
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