2012 is the National Year of Reading and will be celebrated year round with events, competitions and much more, organised and sponsored by diverse partners, including libraries, educators, writers, publishers, booksellers, professional associations, politicians and other associated organisations.

ALIA is a sponsor and will be launching the National Year of Reading 2012 website – Love 2 Read, on Wednesday 14th July at the IMPACT 2010 public library conference in Albury.

In the meantime, you can join in the preparations by becoming a Fan of the Facebook page. Check out all the news at Facebook, or read how it came about at the Cities of Lit website.

Be inspired and start thinking about how you and your library can join in this significant event.