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Mosman Library's Blog – April 2009 Archive (3)

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards: Vote for the 2009 People's Choice

The judges of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have selected these six titles as the best in new Australian fiction:

Breath - Tim Winton

Disquiet - Julia Leigh

The Spare Room - Helen Garner

The Good Parents - Joan London

A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz

The Lieutenant - Kate Grenville

And now (if you live in NSW) you can… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on April 27, 2009 at 17:14 — No Comments

Now that's what I call a long overdue

Washington and Lee University has a missing library book back on its shelves — nearly 145 years (52,858 days) after it was stolen by a Union soldier during the Civil War.

The 1842 book, the first volume of W.F.P. Napier's four-volume History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, was returned recently by a friend of one of the soldier's descendants to the Lexington school's Leyburn… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on April 17, 2009 at 10:00 — No Comments

Mosman Readers go tweet

If you're on Twitter, follow @mosmanreaders to get real-time alerts of what's happening on Mosman Readers.

And if you're interested, here's what's happening in the background. We're sending our 'Latest Activity' feed to Yahoo! Pipes, where it gets a bit of regex work to make the titles more human-friendly. The output of the Pipe is checked by Twitterfeed every 30 minutes.… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on April 6, 2009 at 15:00 — 1 Comment