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More news about Public Library Ambassadors

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

When Jan Richards officially launched the Public Library Ambassadors campaign at the Summit on 16 July, we had four ambassadors signed up.  Now we have five.

720 ABC Perth radio presenter Russell Woolf has come on board.  With thousands of listeners tuning in every weekday to hear his program, Loclib’s Julie Caddy is delighted that he has agreed to be a voice for public libraries in WA, along with Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan.

You can check out all our ambassadors on our new ALIA Public Library Ambassador Flickr site and find out more about the campaign on our Library Ambassadors page.

Sue McKerracher, Project Officer

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Our first two Public Library Ambassadors

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

East Gippsland and Cowra libraries, in Victoria and New South Wales, are setting the pace, with the announcement this week of their public library ambassadors.
East Gippsland went for local author Barry Heard, who is already a regular in the Bairnsdale library. Cowra library asked Councillor Brucer Miller, an active member of the local council and president of the Local Government and Shires Association of NSW.
That’s one of the great things about this campaign - it will link libraries with well known, well respected individuals from many different walks of life.  We are also pursuing sports people, commentators and TV personalities - some of whom are naturally aligned with libraries.  Others will be unexpected champions, which is all to the good when it comes to attracting media attention.

For more information about the first public library ambassadors, click through to Ambassadors Live!

View press release http://www.alia.org.au/media.room/2009.05.18.html

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