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Prize winners Daniel East, Sally Evans and Alise Blayney with Creativ... Prize winners Daniel East, Sally Evans and Alise Blayney with Creative Arts Lecturer Dr Shady Cosgrove (back row, left), University Librarian Felicity McGregor and Ovid representative Jon Ward.

Linking people with ideas for Library and Information Week

Libraries fire up the imagination, fuel creativity and inspire thinking by linking people with ideas.

The important role that libraries play is celebrated each year during Library and Information Week.

This year UOW students joined in the celebrations and produced a wealth of creative writing in response to the theme of linking people with ideas. The three winning participants in the Library’s Creative Challenge shared in prize money provided by major database supplier, Ovid Technologies.

Alise Blayney, a fourth year Creative Arts student, won first prize for Super Cala Freakin’ Sell Your Strut. Her sophisticated poem offers a funny and biting take on the fashion industry and the pressures that its ideas of perfection can create.

Second prize winner Sally Evans has been recognised for the third time, after winning first prize in the 2004 competition and second prize in 2005. This year the Bachelor of Creative Arts student explored themes around access to knowledge and information in her free verse poem Blank Screen Blues.

Alise and Sally celebrated their success with Encouragement Prize winner Daniel East at a prize presentation on July 25. The winning entries are available to read on the Library website.