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Libraries ACT provides resources for our culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and employs experienced staff, including a Multicultural Learning Coordinator to work with these communities, connect them with the library and the opportunities it offers, and collaborate with them on sharing and celebrating their cultures.
Library resources which offer opportunities to engage with cultural language and heritage include:
• Library Press Display, which provides in-language digital access to hundreds of newspapers and magazines from around the world.
• eBooks and eAudio books available via BorrowBox and digital magazines available via RBdigital.
• Print newspapers in selected languages.
• Music on CD and for digital download.
• World movies on DVD.
• Mango Languages, a language learning app with language learning courses in more than 70 languages.
Both the 2019 ACT ACE Grants Program and the 2018 ACT Mature Workers Grants Program will fund new services designed to improve the accessibility of vocational education and training services for people experiencing barriers.
The new services supporting the development of employability, learning, reading, writing, oral communication, numeracy and digital technology capabilities―under the 2019 ACT ACE Grants Program―are anticipated to begin in mid-2019.
Multicultural affairs—summit
(Question No 2090)
Mrs Kikkert asked the Minister for Multicultural Affairs, upon notice, on 30 November 2018:
(1) How many people were invited to attend the 2018 ACT Multicultural Summit.
(2) How many people (a) belonging to the ACT community, (b) from interstate and (c) from overseas were invited to attend the Summit.
(3) How many people accepted the invitation to attend the Summit.
(4) How many people attended the Summit.
(5) How many people from (a) interstate and (b) overseas attended the Summit.
(6) How many youth representatives (a) attended and (b) were invited to the Summit.
(7) Which groups/organisations were (a) invited to the Summit and (b) were represented at the Summit.
(8) Which groups/organisations declined the invitation to attend.
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