Kay Poustie Scholarship
The Kay Poustie Scholarship has been established by the State Library of Western Australia Foundation to recognise Kay Poustie's immense contribution to the library profession throughout her career.
This scholarship takes the form of an International Study Grant and will enable WA-based librarians to visit libraries overseas to learn more about innovative library practices which can then be applied here in Western Australia. This scholarship therefore recognises Kay's commitment to, and belief in, an international perspective for the profession. Scholarship recipients will gain the global experience necessary for effective librarianship. .
Funds for the scholarship have been provided by generous donations to the Foundation and, through the scholarship, Kay's lifetime of dedicated service to the profession will be honoured and her legacy enrich future generations of librarians and library users.
To continue the scholarship each year, the Foundation is encouraging further donations to its In Memoriam campaign.
Download the Application Booklet
To Donate to the In Memoriam Campaign:
http://www.statelibraryfoundation.org/donate-here and select "In Memoriam"
National Year of Reading 2012National Year of Reading 2012
The State Library Foundation will be supporting The Library Agency for the National Year of Reading 2012 campaign. The Foundation will be launching exciting events for all Western Australians from January 2012, check back here for more event information.
"If you can read this then you're one of the 54% of Australians who are prose literate. You're in the majority- but only just. Nearly half the population struggles without the literacy skills to meet the most basic demands of everyday life and work. There are 46% of Australians who can't read a newspaper; follow a recipe; make sense of timetables, or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle."
Reading is THE essential life skill, join the campaign to bring all forms of reading out into our communities. For more information go to www.love2read.org.au
The West Australian Spelling Bee 2011
On Thursday 14th April, the brightest spellers in WA competed head to head in a live Spelling Bee at the State Library of WA. These 12 finalists from Years 5 to 8 represented various schools across WA.
The two lucky winners, Lincoln Lee, a Year 6 student from St. Mark's Anglican Community School, and Tabitha Malet, a Year 7 student from Presbyterian Ladies College both received the fantastic prize of a family holiday to Disneyland in Hong Kong.
Basil Zempilas was the MC for the event whilst Channel 7 filmed the Spelling Bee live. The story was later broadcasted on Today Tonight.
The State Library of WA Foundation, partnered with The West Australian Newspaper and Kinetic Education, launched the project to improve national literacy levels throughout the state. The competition received 3000 entrants and the Foundation is looking forward to making 2012 West Australian Spelling Bee 2012 bigger and better!
Stan Walker performing live at PLCOur Page in History
Our Page in History is an interactive web based project encouraging indviduals, families, groups and businesses to records their history by lodging their photos and stories on a digital platform. We want you to record and digitise your history through the creation of your own personal "Page" in history.
For more information click here
Our School in History
Our School in History is an innovative history competition that has encouraged Western Australian students to share, record and research their school's history and upload it to the online history site; Our Page in History for a great prize.
A group of year six girls from Presbyterian Ladies' College (PLC) won the competition through their creative entry "What PLC means to me". This secured them and their fellow classmates an exclusive concert by Australian Idol Winner, Stan Walker with Lisa, Baz and Sam from 92.9 broadcasting the concert and their breakfast show live from the school auditorium.
