National Year of Reading 2012
Love2Read Café
“Play with words” on Saturday afternoons
at the Love2Read café
Visit the Love2Read Café this summer!
This exciting initiative for the National Year of Reading is an outdoor reading room based on one in Bryant Park in New York.
The Love2Read Café is out the front of the State Library, and has brightly coloured chairs, tables, and book trolleys with a range of reading materials for all ages and interests.
There are also programs and events suitable for all ages. Look out for author talks, children’s activities, word game Saturdays, screenings of classic films based on books on the Big Screen on Sundays at 5pm, and live music.
The Café is open from Saturday 21 January to Sunday 26 February 2012.
It will be closed on 26 January for the Australia Day holiday, and from 9 -13 February to accommodate a music festival in the Perth Cultural Centre.
Monday – Thursday 10:00am – 7:30pm
Friday 10:00am – 5.00pm
Saturday and Sunday 10:30am – 5.00pm
Here's a link to the Love2Read Café program brochure or check the events page for upcoming sessions.
Our Story
Readers have had the opportunity to vote and have their say about which of the shortlisted books best reflects our State.
The shortlisted titles for Western Australia were:
Elizabeth Jolley, The Newspaper of Claremont Street
Sally Morgan, My Place
Howard Pederson & Banjo Woorunmurra: Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance
Kim Scott, True Country
Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones
Tim Winton, Cloudstreet
and the winning books for each State and Territory will be announced on Tuesday 14 February at the official launch of the National Year of Reading.
Readers can then take a journey around Australia through the pages of the eight books and come away with an even greater depth of understanding about what it means to be Australian.
The National Year of Reading: what's it all about?
Australian libraries and library associations are supporting the National Year of Reading in 2012, linking together all the great things that are already happening around books, reading and literacy and giving them an extra boost, with inspirational programs and events taking place across the country.
Libraries are partnering with government, the media, writers, schools, publishers, booksellers, employers, child care providers, health professionals and a whole host of other organisations that share our passion for reading.
Margaret Allen (second from left),
Chair of the National Year of Reading
Founding Partners, and staff of the State
Library of WA, show off the range of
e-book readers available.
The National Year of Reading 2012 is about children learning to read and keen readers finding new sources of inspiration.
It's about supporting reading initiatives while respecting the oral tradition of storytelling.
It's about helping people discover and rediscover the magic of books. And most of all, it's about Australians becoming a nation of readers.
The State Library of Western Australia is proud to be a founding partner of the National Year of Reading 2012.
For more information, or to sign up for the monthly e-newsletter, please see: http://www.love2read.org.au/
Page last updated: Monday 16 January 2012
