by admin | Aug 12, 2025 | ALIA Awards, ALIA in WA, ALIAWest, Awards, F A Sharr Award
(Image credit: https://slwa.wa.gov.au/) A few weeks ago, something incredible happened: I was honoured to receive the FA Sharr Award – a recognition given to early career library professionals in WA. I won it for speaking on a topic I care deeply about: how...
by admin | Aug 6, 2025 | ALIAWest, Awards, F A Sharr Award
Congratulations to our 2021 F A Sharr Award winner, Emily Paull, on the publication of her first novel in April! Emily is a local librarian, author and book reviewer who is very involved in supporting the WA writing community. Emily’s published works include the...
by admin | Jul 16, 2025 | ALIAWest, GLAMR, Uncategorized
ALIAWest invites passionate students, professionals and practitioners from the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Records) sector to submit proposals for presentations or workshops at our upcoming event celebrating lifelong partnerships and innovations...
by admin | Apr 7, 2019 | ALIA Awards, ALIA West, F A Sharr, Professional Development
It can be tough nominating yourself for an award at the beginning of your career. At least, that’s the way I felt when I was writing my application for the F A Sharr Award last year. I wasn’t sure that I had done enough, that I could say enough, that I could...
by admin | Mar 1, 2019 | ALIA West, Sharr Award, WALT
The F A Sharr Award is named after Francis Aubie (Ali) Sharr, State Librarian in Western Australia from 1953 to 1976, in recognition of his contribution to libraries and librarianship in Western Australia and to the profession more broadly. The award is presented to a...
