To celebrate the official launch of the National Year of Reading on Tuesday 14 February, we have a 3D chalk art book out the front of the State Library, next to the black-and-white sculpture. It doesn’t look 3D until you look through a camera…very clever! Come and take a photo and shake the hand of Bunyip Bluegum who is stepping out of the book.
Last month at the State Library…
There were 98,747 visitors to the Alexander Library Building
There were 192,055 visits to our websites
We welcomed 451 new members to the State Library community
Our clients performed 83,114 searches on electronic resources provided from the Alexander Library Building
Our Preservation & Maintenance teams preserved 1372 digital images
There are currently 233 public libraries in Western Australia.
Find, contact or join your local library using the Australian Libraries Gateway or our Guide to Public Libraries in Western Australia – and get reading!
Why not use Naxos Music Library to have a listen to Richard Strauss’s powerful opera Elektra ahead of its opening at His Majesty’s Theatre this week? You can hear excerpts from the opera, or you can listen to the voices of many of the cast (Eva Johansson, Orla Boylan, Elizabeth Campbell, Fiona Campbell, Merlyn Quaife and others) singing a variety of other music. You can use Naxos with your free membership to the State Library, and you can listen in the comfort of your home. And you can discover a whole world of music by listening to over 900,000 tracks.
So the theme this month for the national year of reading is ‘Laugh’. Any books / signs or stuff you have read that has made you laugh out loud??
Driving to work today I saw an old sign for flowers but it had Day and Flowers hidden so it looked like Mothers For Sale…made me laugh. Author of some chortle inducing scenes – Nick Earls, in both Perfect Skin and Bachelor Kisses.
We will be offering two free family history talks at the State Library on Thursday 9 February as part of our Learning program.
Black and White and Read All Over looks at some of the wonderful digitised historic newspapers available through Trove and the Library’s e-resources. Many of these are also available for you to use from home as members of the State Library.
Fantastic Websites is exactly that – a look at some of our favourite family history websites from around the world. Many of them will be familiar to you but you may discover some gems!
For bookings please phone 9427 3111 and visit our Family History Learning page for further details of these and other courses.
The Library Board of Western Australia is pleased to invite nominations for the second annual Library Board of Western Australia Award for Excellence. Managers in all library sectors are encouraged to nominate innovative people or projects for the 2012 Award.
Entry forms, guidelines and selection criteria are available via the State Library of Western Australia website.
The Award recognises excellence and innovation in the library sector by any person, library or organisation in Western Australia.
The Library Board of Western Australia Award for Excellence is intended to recognise a particular service, event, program, piece of research or partnership completed during the past year, rather than long and meritorious service. The Award recognises a broad spectrum of library related work, and is not restricted to libraries and librarians. For 2012, the achievement must have been completed during the previous year 2011.
“This Award is linked to the Board’s leadership role in guiding and encouraging the provision of all library services throughout the State”, said Professor Allen, Chairman of the Library Board.
Prize money of $5000 will be awarded, with the winner announced during Library and Information Week 2012 (21 – 25 May).
Nominations close at 5.00pm on Wednesday 30 March 2012.
For more information please visit this page, or contact Julie Ham on (08) 9427 3304 or via email.
Here at the State Library of WA we’ve started a Reading Wall in the Nook area near the south entrance of the Library. People can write a label to share their favourite quote from a book as part of the National Year of Reading 2012.
But what if you’d like to share online? Add a comment to this post and share your favourite quote from a book! (We’ll keep posting to encourage and you can click on the Reading Wall category to check on all the posts.)
