‘Drones and Phantoms’ wins ALS Gold Medal
Jennifer Maiden’s poetry collection Drones and Phantoms (Giramondo) has won the 2015 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal. Maiden’s book was chosen from a shortlist of five titles. Announced at the...
Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury sign with Wheelers ebook platform
ALS Library Services has announced that ebooks from Pan Macmillan and Bloomsbury are now available to Australian and New Zealand users of the Wheelers ePlatform library lending service. ALS managing...
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Bathurst Library signs with Wheelers ePlatform Bathurst Regional Library in New South Wales is now offering ebooks to its patrons via the Wheelers ePlatform library lending service. Library manager John Cumberford...
HarperCollins, Walker Books sign with Wheelers ebook platform
ALS Library Services has announced that ebooks from HarperCollins, Walker Books and Dark Horse Comics are now available to Australian users of Wheelers ePlatform library lending service. ALS managing director...
New publishers sign with Wheelers ebook platform; 50,000 ebooks now available
Ebooks from Faber & Faber and Really Blue Books are now available from Wheelers ePlatform library lending service, represented in Australia by ALS Library Services. ALS managing director Patricia Genat...
ALS Gold Medal 2012 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2012 ALS Gold Medal, presented 'for a work of outstanding literary merit published in 2011', has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:People of Earth (Christopher Edwards,...
ALS Gold Medal 2012 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2012 ALS Gold Medal, presented 'for a work of outstanding literary merit published in 2011', has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:People of Earth (Christopher Edwards,...
ALS launches ePlatform ebook lending service locally
Library supplier ALS has launched the ePlatform ebook lending service in Australia. Launched locally at the SWITCH public libraries conference in late November, ePlatform offers local content from publishers including Allen...
‘That Deadman Dance’ wins ALS Gold Medal
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Picador) has won this year's Australian Literary Society Gold Medal.Scott received the medal at the opening of the Annual Conference of the Association for...
Johnston, Genat to take up new roles on ABA Management Committee
Duncan Johnston and Patricia Genat have been appointed to the positions of first vice president and second vice president of the Australian Booksellers Association Management Committee. ABA President Jon Page...
ALS Gold Medal shortlist announced
The shortlist for the ALS Gold Medal, Australia's oldest literary award, has been announced for 2009. The titles in the running are:Her Father's Daughter (John Clanchy, UQP)The Spare Room (Helen...
Big names in running for Gold Medal
Several big names are in the running for the Australian Literary Society's 2008 Gold Medal. The award for an 'outstanding Australian literary work', which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year,...
Genat joins ALS
Patricia Genat has joined South Australian library supply business ALS Library Services as managing director. She has also taken an equity position in the business.Genat left her position as managing director...
‘Carpentaria’ wins ALS Gold Medal
Carpentaria, the 2007 Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Alexis Wright has been awarded the 2007 Australian Literatures Society (ALS) Gold Medal for ?an outstanding literary work published in the...