ATSILIRN (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library and Information and Resource Network) was established after it was recognised that there was a need for a support and information network for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people working in libraries and for those people servicing the information needs of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The Network became an ALIA Group in the second half of 2018 and a meeting was held at ALIA House on 31 January, 2019, to talk about future plans. ATSILIRN also published and maintains the ATSILIRN Protocols for Libraries, Archives and Information Services
Pictured left to right: Ronald Briggs, Lyndall Ley, Alana Garwood-Houng, John Morseu, Margy Burn with the Taonga Mauri Stone - highly prized objects which travel to each International Indigenous Librarians' Forum, wherever it is held in the world.