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Supporting Australian book creators

By Laura Armstrong, Toni Jordan

Issue 95, Term 4 2015

ll participating schools to provide feedback about their experience via a quick online form, to enable us to improve future ELR surveys. Australian authors and illustrators value school libraries When a school is invited to participate in the ELR school library survey, it is a fantastic opportun

Supporting Australian book creators

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 101, Term 2 2017

Many of you will by now be familiar with the Educational Lending Right (ELR), a cultural program funded by the Australian Government. ELR provides annual payments to eligible members of the writing and publishing industry. The Department of Communications and the Arts invites eligible publishers an

Supporting Australian book creators

By Nicole Richardson, Frances Watts

Issue 100, Term 1 2017

It is, indeed, their primary source of books. Of course, this means that many of our readers are not actually buying our books, and without an income authors and illustrators can’t afford to create. This is why the ELR scheme is so important and so worthwhile: by compensating book creators for the l

ELR, or the super fund you have when you don’t have a super fund

By Nadia Wheatley

Issue 103, Term 4 2017

e got older, Lending Right payments have become even more important to me, and to many other book creators as well. Unlike most Australian workers, authors and illustrators don’t get superannuation. Sure, I can join a super fund myself. But I do not have an employer contributing to my fund, to mak

Supporting Australian book creators

By Laura Armstrong, Will Kostakis

Issue 91, Term 4 2014

d publishers for income potentially lost as a result of their books being available for loan in educational lending libraries. As numerous Australian authors and illustrators have attested, ELR enables them to continue doing what they do best–creating great books. Libraries and library staff: ELR'

Supporting Australian book creators

By Daniel Hughes

Issue 114, Term 3 2020

pensate them for income potentially lost as a result of their books being available for loan in educational lending libraries. As numerous Australian authors and illustrators have attested, ELR enables them to continue doing what they do best — creating great books! In February 2020, Ursula Dubosa

Supporting Australian book creators

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 97, Term 2 2016

Every year, the Department of Communications and the Arts makes payments to eligible book creators — including authors, illustrators and publishers, to name a few — for having their work held in Australian school and academic libraries. This program is called the Educational Lending Right (ELR) —

Supporting Australian book creators

By Laura Armstrong

Issue 94, Term 3 2015

What Educational Lending Right (ELR) means to me… Hazel Edwards As a long-term author with a considerable backlist, PLR and ELR payments confirm that my work is being read by multiple readers for each individual library copy. Culturally this means my stories are shared, and the ideas discussed

Supporting Australian book creators

By Laura Armstrong

Issue 93, Term 2 2015

Every year in September/October, 600 Australian schools are invited to provide book count data for the Educational Lending Right (ELR) school library survey. The data collected is used to estimate the number of copies of Australian books held in Australian school libraries. These estimates are then

Supporting Australian book creators

By Laura Armstrong, Gus Gordon

Issue 92, Term 1 2015

2014-15 ELR school library survey is finished We have had a fantastic response to the Educational Lending Right (ELR) 2014-15 school library survey. In October 2014, we invited 600 schools to participate in the survey. 325 schools generously provided book-data reports from their library managemen

Supporting Australian book creators

By Nicole Richardson, Morris Gleitzman

Issue 99, Term 4 2016

Every year, SCIS works closely with the Department of Communications and the Arts to conduct a survey of book holdings in Australian school libraries. This is the ELR School Library Survey , and it is integral to the growth of the Australian writing and publishing industry. The survey produces e

Supporting Australian book creators

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 104, Term 1 2018

In Term 4 of 2017, SCIS invited 750 Australian schools to participate in the Educational Lending Right (ELR) School Library Survey. We received 364 responses to the survey, surpassing the required minimum of 300. We are grateful to all school library, teaching and administrative staff who recognise

Supporting Australian book creators

By The ELR team

Issue 106, Term 3 2018

Consider those copies of Old Tom or Looking for Alibrandi that are sitting on your library’s shelves. What stories do these books have to tell? How many readers have held these books while absorbing their words — whether in the library, in the classroom, or in their homes? Each time a library

The library, the child, the book creator: ELR and its role in the story cycle

By Tania McCartney

Issue 107, Term 4 2018

When I was very small, books were my world. When I got bigger, they were still my world — only perhaps a little richer, more nuanced and complex.  Now that I’m biggest of all, books are not only the richness, nuance and complexity that comes with the sheer enjoyment of reading — they are my eve

Interview with Gabrielle Wang, Australian Children's Laureate

By Gabrielle Wang

Issue 122, Term 3 2022

o Australian authors, and what are the benefits of receiving them? Well, according to the 2020 Australian Society of Authors Survey, 80 per cent of authors and illustrators (probably more than that) receive an average yearly income of $15,000, so how important is ELR to us? The last few years ha

1,000 reasons to support Australian book creators

By Jackie French

Issue 97, Term 2 2016

Dear Jackie French, What I have learned from your book is to be wary of anyone who tries to make you angry. Love James James was 14, and Hitler’s Daughter was the first book he had ever read. Yet he had found the truth behind a question I had been hunting for ever since I was ten years old: h

An inquiry-based approach to exploring Australian history

By Deborah Abela

Issue 99, Term 4 2016

In the last few years, we have witnessed the largest movement of people since World War II, and both periods resonate with themes of fear, persecution, escape, identity, and hope. This made me think of my own family’s history and how, when my father was a young boy, he left his war-ravaged home of

Stories make us: in conversation with Morris Gleitzman

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 105, Term 2 2018

In February, award-winning children’s author Morris Gleitzman was named the new Australian Children’s Laureate for 2018–19. As laureate, he will join his predecessors, Leigh Hobbs, Jackie French, Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor in promoting the importance of reading. Morris kindly shared hi

The cathartic experience: understanding grief through the written word

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 106, Term 3 2018

Eliza Henry Jones is well-acquainted with the power of the written word. Her literary work is an achingly beautiful exploration of grief, loss and trauma — themes that she understands are capable of helping readers make sense of their own experiences. Indeed, the writing experience itself has had

Emily Rodda on treasured stories

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 108, Term 1 2019

  Emily Rodda’s life has been a whirlwind of stories. Her family's bond formed not between the pages of books, but between the silences and laughter of their own storytelling. At a young age, Emily taught herself to read by absorbing the words from the books borrowed from her school and municipal