Calendar

__Significant dates for Libraries and Literacy in 2010 include:__

 * Victorian Premiers Reading Challenge - 28 January - 31 August PRC


 * Tuesday 10 February ~ Safer Internet Day [|http://wwww.saferinternetday.org]
 * Saturday 14 February ~ ALIA Library Lovers Day __http://wwww.librarylovers.org.au/__


 * Dr Seuss b. March 2, 1904 __http://www.seussville.com__
 * Thursday March 4 ~ World Book Day UK & Ireland __http://www.worldbookday.com/__
 * Friday March 5 International Book Day


 * Friday March 12 - Friday March 19 Scholastic Book Fair
 * Sunday March 21 ~ World Poetry Day (check date)


 * Thursday April 1 ~ [|International Edible Books Festival] Melbourne EB Festival 5-8pm [|Melbourne Atheneum Library]
 * Friday April 2 ~ Hans Christian Andersen's Birthday = International Children's Book Day Australian Children's Literature Alliance [|International Board on Books for Young People]
 * Thursday April 23 ~ World Book Copyright Day

__May ~ Information Awareness Month__
 * 25-31 May ~ ALIA Australian Library & Information Week //- Access All Areas []//
 * Wednesday 26 May ~ National Simultaneous Storytime // [] //


 * June-August ~ MS Readathon
 * 6-10 June ~ National Cyber Security Awareness Week (see OHS & Information Literacy discussions)[| http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/]


 * 13-20 August ~ Scholastic Book Fair Term 3
 * 21-27 August ~ CBCA Book Week~ //Across the story bridge// ~ []


 * 29 August - September 4 ~ National Celebration of Literacy Week ~ []


 * 1-30 September ~ //Get Reading!// ~ Previously called //Books Alive//, this significant government-funded initiative is the largest annual promotion of books and reading in Australia. Includes //50 Books You Can’t Put Down// guide.


 * On Wednesday September 1 2010 all Australians are invited to participate in the third Indigenous Literacy Day. ILD aims to help raise urgently needed funds to address the literacy crisis in remote Indigenous communities[|. http://www.worldwithoutbooks.org]


 * 13 September [|Roald Dahl Day]


 * 25 October ~ 4th Monday in October annually [|International School Library Day]
 * 31 October The Premier's Reading Challenge Honour Roll appears in The Sunday Age


 * EDNA Library Events calendar []
 * EDNA events calendar general []

The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom. J. A. Langford