2012 Media Releases
Curtin University Library was announced last night as the 2013 winner of the Library Board of Western Australia Award.
A recent report shows that Australia’s public libraries deliver benefits worth nearly three times the cost of running them.
Sixty-five stories which were self-published by the Kadjina Community between 1998 and 2002 are now available online for the first time.
Written in English, Walmajarri and Kriol, the collection is a mix of original stories, modern retellings of traditional stories and illustrated records of traditional knowledge.
Fewer children in WA are at risk of missing out on developing essential literacy skills thanks to a state-wide parenting program which promotes reading to children from birth.
With a flamboyance of flamingos, a hover of hummingbirds and a lounge of lizards in tow, award-winning author/illustrator Patricia Mullins is set to shake up Perth with an explosion of colourful collages which will delight both young and old.
In a Western Australian first, all 60,000 children who started Kindergarten or Pre-primary school last week are set to receive a free Better Beginnings reading pack to encourage home reading habits that are vital for success in school.
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Rhinos in the library!
Original mixed-media illustrations from Patricia Mullins’ children’s book A Crash of Rhinos are now on display in a colourful new exhibition at the State Library of Western Australia.
Fremantle resident Dr Kate Gregory has been appointed by the State Library of Western Australia as the Battye Historian.
