2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards winners announced; ‘The Biggest Estate on Earth’ wins Victorian Prize for Literature
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage (A&U) has won the 2012 Victorian Prize for Literature, worth $100,000. Gammage, who has spent the past...
Victorian bookshop for sale
Country Tales Bookstore in Bright, Victoria, is currently for sale. Owner Sally Taylor, who opened the independent store in early 2010, told Bookseller+Publisher that she is selling the business as...
SLV seeks community feedback to help ‘plan for the next decade’
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has launched a new community consultation program and is asking Victorians for their views and ideas about the library to ‘aid in its planning for the...
ALIA, VATL call for reinstatement of Victorian TAFE funding
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and the Victorian Association of TAFE Libraries (VATL) have issued a joint statement calling for the Victorian Government to reinstate $170 million in...
Council endorses new Geelong Library design
The Greater Geelong City Council in regional Victoria has endorsed a design proposed by Melbourne architects for the new Geelong Library and Heritage Centre. The new dome-shaped, five-storey building has...
In brief
Renovated Torquay Library reopens The Torquay Library in regional Victoria reopened on 22 September after being closed for renovations for four weeks. According to a statement from the Geelong Regional...
Creative Clunes announces international events
Creative Clunes, the organisation behind the annual Clunes Booktown Festival in regional Victoria, has announced that it is working on four cultural and arts programs with similar organisations in South...
International projects in the works for Clunes
Creative Clunes, the organisation behind the annual Clunes Booktown Festival in regional Victoria, has announced that it is working on four cultural and arts programs with similar organisations in South...
Melbourne Prize for Literature, Best Writing Award 2012 finalists announced
The finalists for this year’s Melbourne Prize for Literature and Best Writing Award have been announced. The finalists for the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature, presented to a Victorian author...
Victorian legal libraries to amalgamate to form Law Library of Victoria
The peak legal authorities in Victoria have signed an agreement to work together to create a new 24-hour library for Victorian judges, magistrates, tribunal members and legal practitioners in 2013. A...
New locations for libraries in Camberwell, Queanbeyan
The Camberwell Library in Melbourne’s east is moving to a new location. The library, located at 25 Inglesby Road, is currently closed while the move takes place. The library will...
Independent bookstores in NT, VIC to close
Absolutely Books in Darwin and Seagulls Bookshop in Melbourne will close within the next three months. Absolutely Books, which is located in Larrakeyah in Darwin's west, will close its doors in October....
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...
Changes to public holiday trading in VIC and ACT
The newly elected Victorian Liberal National Coalition Government is likely to remove the ban on Easter Sunday trading in the state. In a statement released during the recent Victorian state...