Seven Little Australians house protected

Ethel Turner's childhood home in Killara will be placed on the NSW Heritage Register. Read the Daily Telegraph report.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20479717-5001028,00.html

Kylie Minogue Launches First Children's Book ...

is a headline on All Headline News.com. It reports the hype surrounding th launch of Kylie's new picture book. I must have missed the hype as I didn't hear about the launch. See http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004954397 for the story

Inside the real Lian Hearn

A Times UK article at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2358181,00.html

Librivox

http://www.librivox.org/ This site provides free audiobooks from the public domain. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the internet.

INTUTE

http://www.intute.ac.uk/

Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best
Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of
UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the
websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the
resources.

New Survey on ALIA pages

Go to http://alia.org.au/employment/workforce/ to complete a survey on the Library and Information Sector Workforce led by Gillian Hallam. It will take up to 30 minutes to complete, but it will provide worthwhile information for the profession.

Vogel Award

Nominees for this year's "The Australian"/Vogel Literary Award have been announced. The shortlisted titles are:

Jeremy Aitken The Bike
Belinda Castles The River Baptists
Jarad Henry Spider Web
Matthew Schreuder Muscle
Anna Westbrook Hey Sugar