The winner of the Miles Franklin Award will be announced on Thursday June 18. Vote for your favourite in my poll and if you’d like to say why you’re making that choice, I’d love to hear from you. I’ll be reading my way through as many of the titles as I can by the award [...]
This review was first published in an ezine, the Fine Print. Lost Libraries reviewed by Paula Grunseit
Restoring the Balance Review by Paula Grunseit The Coretta Scott King Awards, 1970-2004. 3rd ed Ed. by Henrietta M Smith. Chicago: American Library Association, 2004.176p US$35.00 soft ISBN 0838935400 This comprehensive and important book pays tribute to 35 years of Coretta Scott King Awards given to outstanding African-American writers and illustrators in the field of [...]
The Benjamin Andrew Footpath Library is an organisation aiming to empower homeless and disavantaged people through books. The organisation builds libraries in hostels and refuges (for men, women and young people) and operates a weekly footpath library. This article recently published in MiNDFOOD magazine tells you more about the founder, Sarah Garnett and how she [...]
When people think ‘SBS’—Australia’s national multicultural, multilingual broadcaster—they think ‘SBS TV’ but did you know that SBS actually began as a radio network in 1975 five years before SBS TV went to air? SBS Radio Sydney Library Manager Paula Grunseit tells us about SBS radio’s role, charter and diversity. SBS Radio, established in 1975 as [...]
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