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Educational Lending Rights: Supporting Australian literature and schools

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For 25 years, the Educational Lending Right (ELR) school library survey has helped keep Australian literature thriving by ensuring creators are fairly compensated when their books are used in schools.

  • Literacy

The Australian Government’s Lending Rights scheme sees Australian authors, illustrators, and publishers compensated for the free use of their books held in educational and public libraries. 2024 was the 25th year that ESA has had the pleasure of delivering this survey on behalf of the Australian Government’s Office for the Arts.

Help us celebrate ELR's milestone as we prepare for the 2025 survey and meet the schools who won book prizes for completing last year's survey in this article, published via SCIS Connections.

 

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​Educational Lending Right (ELR) School Library Survey

​Supporting Australian authors, creators and publishers

​As part of the Educational Lending Right Scheme, we deliver the ELR School Library Survey to collect data on book holdings in Australian school libraries. This ensures authors, illustrators and publishers are compensated fairly for their works used in education.

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