SLQ creates website for design ideas, education
The State Library of Queensland has created a new website called Design Online to promote the exchange of ideas about design in the Asia Pacific region. Members of the design industry,...
Magabala announces partnership with Ubud writers festival
Magabala Books has announced a new partnership with the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia, which will involve a Magabala author participating in the writers festival each year....
Magabala announces new partnership with State Library of Queensland
Magabala Books has announced a partnership with the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) to publish the winners of the kuril dhagun Indigenous writing fellowships. Under the partnership, the winners of the...
BWF 2011 program launched
The program for this year's Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs from 7 to 11 September, was released on 30 July. As previously reported by the Weekly Book Newsletter, Jonathan...
In Brief
BISG membership to maintain 'retailing perspective' following Cain's departureAn official from the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research has told the Weekly Book Newsletter that Minister Kim Carr 'is...
Qld booksellers survive floods; Victorian situation worsens
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter report QLD bookstores close in face of rising flood waters; QWC, SLQ and UQP also closed, the majority of bookstores in Queensland have survived...
QLD bookstores close in face of rising flood waters; QWC, SLQ and UQP also closed
Bookstores in Queensland are among retail businesses that have been affected by the devastating floods currently sweeping across the state. The Weekly Book Newsletter understands that independent bookstore Avid Reader in...
SLQ awards announced
Historian, author and University of Queensland librarian Dr Jeff Rickertt has been awarded the 2010 State Library of Queensland John Oxley Fellowship, worth $20,000. The fellowship will assist his research...
Bligh announces new ‘State of Writing’ initiative: Qld Writers Centre to relocate
Queensland Premier and Minister for the Arts Anna Bligh last night announced a new initiative that will connect various literary organisations in the state. The initiative, A State of Writing,...
Brisbane Writers Festival moves to new SLQ
The Brisbane Writers Festival has announced it will move to the newly transformed State Library of Queensland in 2007. ‘We are thrilled to work together with the State Library to...
New look State Library of Queensland
The new State Library of Queensland building at Brisbane's South Bank was opened to the public on 25 November. The refurbished five-level building includes an ‘Infozone' with a wireless area,...