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Keen to add some new titles to your digital bookshelf? Choose between 7000+ #ebooks available for free with your Library card. #ReadAnEbookDay

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#OTD in 1970 Australians opened their newspapers to see something they had never seen in print before.

Two Sydneysiders, John Ware and Christabel Poll, became the first people in the country to openly self-identify as gay or lesbian.

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Thank you for joining us tonight! Learn more about this year's winners and the #MonaBrandAward - made possible by a generous bequest to the NSW State Library Foundation from the trailblazing Australian playwright Mona Brand.

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Senior judge Helen Bowden said, “Kate Mulvany’s writing is bright-eyed, candid and generous… she has produced a huge body of work that is feminist, activist and very entertaining.” #MonaBrandAward @rswwf

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Congratulations to "blazing talent" Kate Mulvany who has won the coveted #MonaBrandAward for her extensive body of work comprising more than 30 plays over a 25-year career. @rswwf

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The judges describe @afeliciaking’s work as “sharp, far-reaching and urgent. It extends and emboldens the representation of Asian women with complexity and resonance.” #MonaBrandAward @rswwf

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The winner of the Early Career Writer Award goes to Anchuli Felicia King for her work ‘White Pearl’ (Royal Court, 2019). #MonaBrandAward @afeliciaking

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We're getting ready to announce the winners of the 2020 #MonaBrandAward – Australia’s only prize for women stage and screen writers. 🎉

This year's prize is being presented in association with @rswwf

Join us at 7pm (AEST) as we announce the winners of the 2020 #MonaBrandAward – Australia’s only prize for women stage and screen writers.

The major prize winner will be in conversation with @bri_lee_writer @rswwf

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Holey Dollar, New South Wales, minted 1813, from Spanish silver dollar minted in 1798

Holey Dollar, New South Wales, minted 1813, from Spanish silver dollar minted in 1798

🍄For #MushroomMonth we couldn't go past this illustration by J.E. Tenison-Wood. He left a curious note on the right hand side, which says 'both the above species... make excellent ketchup'. #FungiFriday

'J. E. Tenison-Woods : Album of drawings', c 1880s.
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"Stan didn’t look good at all. I could see him in the garden, through a window. Hunched forward, sucking on a cigarette, mistaking it for a sign of life." – Tony Birch, Probate (2020). #FictionFriday

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Our stunning Mitchell Library Reading Room makes us feel like dancing too! 👯 https://t.co/WLY7Ab1da6

Having fun this morning filming our #GlobeTheatreModel for a new learning resource!

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@The_Globe @SarahJMorley @GarrardLondon #slnswlearning https://t.co/JklIp6hoV5

Quarantine blunders, dubious cures and mandatory masks. 😷Curator Elise Edmonds spoke to @abcsydney's @cassiemccullagh about the striking similarities between #COVID19 and the 1918-19 influenza pandemic.

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#TheGatheringsOrder #PANDEMIC! https://t.co/Mmc7mSwCHR

It's #InternationalCountryMusicDay! 🤠To celebrate, here's a photo of Tex Morton (pictured right) – a pioneer of New Zealand and Australian country music, who was also an actor, television host and circus performer.

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‘Kiss me, Wendy, I’m off on a big adventure’ 📷 Ella McFadyen, c 1930s

During #BiodiversityMonth we bring you this charming story by @_As_Ruby about #Sydney writer and naturalist Ella McFadyen, who combined her love of nature, folklore and poetry.

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Flannel Flowers, Australia, Collection 1: Star Photo Co.

Couple photographed at Luna Park using an infra-red camera, 1943, Ivan Ives

Elizabeth and Emily Macarthur, Camden, Sydney, ca. 1858

Tram crash, Mcmahons point, Sydney, 1934

Royal Navy sailors with anchors, Nelson Dock, English Harbour, Antiqua, West Indies, 1863, [attrib. Arthur Onslow]

Paddle Steamer, [possibly HMS Torch], c. 1858

Bird watching photographers, New South Wales, June 1921, AH Chisholm

Jaguar with new car radio, Sydney, ca. 1951, by Max Dupain

British migrants on the deck of the Georgic, bound for Australia, 1949, Norman Herfort, Pix Magazine

Smoke bombs demonstration, Australian troops, attrib. Palestine, ca. 1916-1917, James Allan Chauvel

Major General EW Chaytor with staff and Model T Ford Utility, Palestine, 1917, James Allan Chauvel, State Library of New South Wales,

Model T Ford Utility, 1st Light Car Patrol (Australia), 1916-1918, James Allan Chauvel, State Library of New South Wales

Australian Cricketers in England, 1884, London Stereoscopic Company

Les Amants eternels, Borovansky Ballet, ca. 1951, Royce Rees

Shadow series, 1938 by PIX photographer Ivan

Spruiker, outside film theatre showing Charge of the Light Brigade, ca. 1936

Hartley Spurr with one of his customers, 1943, by Ivan Ives

Hartley Spurr Bait-monger's, Newcastle, New South Wales, 30 March 1943.

Kids Crafting 101 - Preschool Color Collage Art Activity