Project status: Closed

How you had YourSay

Thanks to everyone who shared their ideas and feedback on the future of libraries by:

  • posting your feedback online
  • providing your photos, videos and ideas in our online imagining tools
  • attending one of our workshops
  • coming into a branch to see our display and submitting your ideas through our comments box
  • emailing us at library.customerinfo@act.gov.au

A What We Heard Report is now available summarising the feedback we received via all channels.

Your contributions, ideas and feedback will help us write, refine and finalise the Libraries ACT: Imagine 2030 Strategy which we look forward to sharing with you in 2023.


  • Conversation starters

    There are so many possibilities that could be explored throughout our co-design process.

    Questions to inspire you 

  • Share photos, videos and comments

    Imagine if libraries can do anything! We welcome your ideas to help inspire others by posting your photos, videos and comments here.

    Feedback closed 20 May 

  • Case studies

    Read our case studies of libraries from Australia and around the world.

    Read more 

  • Multicultural survey

    Are you a person whose first language is not English? Were you, or your parents, born outside of Australia? If so, Libraries ACT would like to hear from you to help us inform the Imagine 2030 co-design.

    If you need a translating and interpreting service, please phone 13 14 50.

    Complete the survey 

  • Events

    Attend one of our in library community workshops in April to share your ideas. We also have online community workshops as well as peak body and stakeholder workshops in May.

    Find out more 

We are looking at how to create libraries as places that meet changing community needs. Libraries have long been more than physical books but a place of learning, inspiration, digital connection and social interaction. Since the beginning of 2020 with the COVID outbreak, Libraries ACT has responded to the rapid changes in community needs by evolving its digital services to meet increased demand. Moving into the future, Libraries ACT want to explore how the community might change and how they might do things differently to remain relevant and viable to meet those changing needs.

Bring different perspectives together through a co-design process, so we can develop a meaningful plan for the future of libraries in the ACT.