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How Good Is Your ‘Hood?

How Good Is Your ‘Hood?

Street Library Australia is proud to support our friends at Placescore as they conduct the 2023 Australian Liveability Census. Placescore is  looking for local experts (that’s you!) to tell them what it's like to live in your neighbourhood. The information you provide...

Welcoming Warrah Street Library

Welcoming Warrah Street Library

Warrah is a community based organisation in Dural that is dedicated to supporting individuals with a disability across a range of services and settings. Thanks to a generous donation from Hornsby Council, Warrah is now the proud owner of its very own Street Library!...

Beach Libraries!

Beach Libraries!

According to the Gregorian calendar, summer is officially coming to a close. But at SLA we’re confident there are a good couple of beach-going months ahead of us.  We love seeing Street Libraries at beaches and surf clubs around the place, but have you had the...

A Street Library Q&A with Author Felicity Castagna

A Street Library Q&A with Author Felicity Castagna

Sydney author Felicity Castagna has written four novels, her latest being Girls in Boys’ Cars. An internationally published author, Felicity’s 2018 novel No More Boats was a finalist in the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Awards. She also publishes essays on home,...

Australian Reading Hour

Australian Reading Hour

Heads up (or is that heads down?) everyone! Australian Reading Hour will take place on Thursday March 9. This very special celebration was launched as part of the 2012 National Year of Reading and is now a much-loved highlight on Australia’s literary calendar.For...

New Product Alert – Meet ‘The Big Pete’ Street Library

New Product Alert – Meet ‘The Big Pete’ Street Library

We’re chuffed to announce there’s an extremely handsome and practical new Street Library on the block. Meet our new model, ‘The Big Pete’. Isn’t he lovely? The Big Pete is lovingly named after one of our favourite Petes, a fella who is hugely instrumental in the...

Celebrating our 2022 Street Library of the Year

Celebrating our 2022 Street Library of the Year

Street Library Australia is calling on the entire Street Library community to congratulate those who made submissions for the 2022 Street Library of the Year. This years’ submissions were a delightful mix of old hands, newbies, individuals and organisations; all of...

Enriching Community with Street Library Australia

Enriching Community with Street Library Australia

One for the calendar! Encourage your community leaders to join Street Library Australia in collaboration with Place Partners for a very special webinar on Thursday March 30, 2023 at 10.30am. We will share information on how Street Libraries strengthen communities and...

Looking After Your Street Library

Looking After Your Street Library

How’s your Street Library looking? Do you want to show it some love? Or, hands up if you’re sick of the endless rain and the damage it’s doing to properties, communities and Street Libraries around the country? Hello there! Books remain our friends throughout time and...

Gulp. Did somebody say ‘Christmas’?

Gulp. Did somebody say ‘Christmas’?

Street Libraries make fantastic gifts that literally keep on giving, not just to your loved ones, but to the wider community. More and more we’re finding that people are purchasing Street Libraries for others. At Christmas time when we tend towards over-consumption,...

Welcome, Honeybee!

Welcome, Honeybee!

The Honeybee Library in Middle Ridge, QLD, is one of the newer libraries on the literary block and Street Librarian Jo says that while the painting and decorating of the library was a passion project for her family, establishing the library itself has been a real...

WardellCORE – Fostering a Resilient Community

WardellCORE – Fostering a Resilient Community

Sydney author Felicity Castagna has written four novels, her latest being Girls in Boys’ Cars. An internationally published author, Felicity’s 2018 novel No More Boats was a finalist in the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Awards. She also publishes essays on home,...