Get London Reading

clipped from books.guardian.co.uk London gets reading Guy Dammann Wednesday March 26, 2008 guardian.co.uk The London based charity Booktrust has been getting the 2008 instalment of their Get London Reading campaign underway this week. The campaign, designed - as its name suggests - to promote reading in the capital, is a biannual cluster of workshops, readings, debates and general bookish celebrations in the weeks leading up to the London Book Fair. Highlights this year include Sam Leith interviewing Louis de Bernieres, readings and question-and-answer sessions with Orange prize nominees Deborah Moggach and Charlotte Mendelson, an in-depth tour of Shoreditch with local resident Dan Cruikshank, and a "literary high tea", consisting of short stories and scones in the Edwardian splendour of a Bloomsbury hotel. Get London Reading began in 2004 as one a series of literacy campaigning events organised by Booktrust, which also administer the Orange prize and the John Llewllyn Rhys prize.

Wireless trial at Melbourne

clipped from bookboy.wordpress.com Free wireless at Melbourne Library Service Melbourne Library Service are offering free wireless on a trial basis for four weeks from March 11. This applies to all three branches (City Library, North Melbourne and East Melbourne) and they have asked for people to come and try the service to see how well it works. Given how many people come into the libraries where I work asking if we have wireless access, I suspect this may be a hit. Don’t forget that even if your local library doesn’t have wireless, they still probably offer free internet access on their own computers.