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Today’s featured library is #Jerilderie Library, part of Western Riverina Libraries. #ALibraryADay #NSWPublicLibraries

#JerilderieLibrary opened in 2009 and has a combination of historic and modern influences.

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Jacob Yarka Lewis, 1912

Jim Gerald, Melbourne, 2 June 1951, by Gordon F. De Lisle

This #InternationalPicnicDay we'd love to know your favourite picnic spots in #Sydney? 🧺

This dreamy scene @therocks was painted by Roland Wakelin in 1952: https://t.co/hgnBz9aeB4

See it on display in our #PaintingsFromTheCollection exhibition: https://t.co/NtMlARaGfq https://t.co/R51xZXABRp

Amazing news! @nakkiahlui’s perceptive, surprising and laugh-out-loud play ‘Black is the New White’ (@AllenAndUnwin) has just won the $10,000 biennial #RussellPrize for Humour Writing.

Read the judges’ comments: https://t.co/se2nTPnBfU https://t.co/LgM3vPfjUa

📚 Books
📔 Magazines
📰 Newspapers
📖 Research journals
🗃️ Family history resources

You can get all of this and more for free online when you have a Library card.

Find out how at our webinar on Thursday 24 June at 10.30am. Register here: https://t.co/8fZCpiWZcd https://t.co/4WIX3TtfiL

Today’s featured library is #Inverell Shire Public Library, part of @InvShireCouncil. #ALibraryADay #NSWPublicLibraries

#InverellLibrary is a vibrant and proactive social hub, providing a range of services to the community.

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Join us tonight as we celebrate humour writing in all its forms! Special guest @Jan__Fran will be in conversation with the winner of the 2021 #RussellPrize for Humour Writing from 7pm.

Book your spot: https://t.co/Xm6LF6EJDe

See the shortlist: https://t.co/iDf9k0DruP https://t.co/xCaMsUtUq9

Thank you so much to our amazing #RussellPrize junior judges! Find out more about their top pick 'Wombat' by Philip Bunting (@ScholasticAUS) here: https://t.co/HZNVFod9Ub https://t.co/XrIX0qU528

Congratulations to Philip Bunting, the winner of the inaugural $5,000 Humour Writing for Young People Award. The judges praised ‘Wombat’ (@ScholasticAUS) for its ‘captivatingly rhythmic prose’ and ‘marvellous’ illustrations. #RussellPrize

Read more: https://t.co/cEkqMh8mvC https://t.co/YswCy6itAF

Announcement coming soon! Join us as we celebrate the winner of the inaugural Humour Writing for Young People Award at 10am (AEST).

Here’s a reminder of the brilliant books that made the shortlist. #RussellPrize

Register for the online event: https://t.co/IdBsnw8Osf https://t.co/r6vtzlFcG9

Today’s featured library is #Ingleburn Library - Greg Percival Library, part of @campbelltownnsw. #ALibraryADay #NSWPublicLibraries

Nestled in the heart of #Ingleburn, they provide a range of resources (including cake tins), programs and technology.

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Happy Bloomsday everyone! Here's our first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, published in 1922. #Bloomsday2021

View catalogue record: https://t.co/GRRIYQdD9j https://t.co/T6oITCuKJ5

Balloon Ascent, Wonderland theme park, Tamarama Beach, Sydney, c. 1908

Join us for a very special #BListBookclub event with @SquigglyRick and @bri_lee_writer on Thurs 24 June at 6pm! Rick will be chatting to Bri about her latest book 'Who Gets to be Smart' (@AllenAndUnwin).

Book here: https://t.co/E4Z8kEJWMC https://t.co/Fj3qmqxh6D

Today’s featured library is #Iluka Library, part of Clarence Regional Library. #ALibraryADay #NSWPublicLibraries

#IlukaLibrary is a classic village library offering book club, chess club, Storytime Knit Wits and catching up with locals.

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We love hearing good news about #SLNSWfellows!

2017 CH Currey Memorial Fellow Dr Breda Carty has been made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her service to people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Read her story 'Claiming space' here: https://t.co/BSfXkm8w7r https://t.co/Vw75rBpfF5

Today’s featured public library is #HurstvilleLibrary, part of @Georges_River. #ALibraryADay #NSWPublicLibraries

#HurstvilleLibrary recently installed a Media Lab with amazing tech and equipment, available to borrow from the Digital Tool Library.

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"The opposite of kindness is not cruelty or malice. It is reason," says Rick Morton, the author of ‘My Year of Living Vulnerably’ (@HarperCollinsAU).

@SquigglyRick shares his thoughts on kindness in our new issue of #Openbook magazine.

Read the story: https://t.co/CM3cESqhuy https://t.co/c16Nc0XLJb

Modelling of shoes for David Jones, 1953, by Max Dupain and Associates

Boy fishing, Narrabeen camp war workers holiday, 26 January 1944, by Alec Iverson

Boy getting his hair washed, Narrabeen camp, 26 January 1944, by Alec Iverson

Sydney University, 1869-1873, by Walter Chaffer

Panorama of Watson's Bay, c. 1872, American & Australasian Photographic Company

Frances Burke (designer) in her studio, 3 June 1952, Australia, by Gordon F. De Lisle

Theatre attendant, Plaza and Regent Theatre, Sydney, 1937

Roy Kendrick , July 1950

Antonia, merchant ship, by M. Cooper

Professor Curtain's Barber's Saloon, Hill End, c. 1872

Spiritualists, Balmain, 31 May 1939, by Ray Olson

1922 Hudson Super Six touring car, with three men beside it

Gasson's Cheap Book Stall and Lending Library, 178 Elizabeth Street South, 1900

Caravan park, St Marys, Sydney, 21 May 1956

"Horrie Dargie and his boys", c. 1950

Strong man, Australia, 20 May 1938

Motorcycle rider posing with a Calthorpe racing bike, ca. 1935

Kids Crafting 101 - Preschool Color Collage Art Activity

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