Last chance: Online auction for Indigenous Literacy Foundation ends 5 November

This year’s Great Book Swap activities at RMIT University have already raised more than $6800 in donations and pledges for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.

The Great Book Swap is an Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) owned event, where schools and institutions gather used books and puzzles from their community, then sell these items to raise funds for the ILF. RMIT University has participated for the past several years, with each year growing in participation and popularity.

Thousands of books were donated by our incredible staff and students, ranging from coffee table art books, to the latest crime thriller, to picture books well loved by their children. Publishers also got involved this year: Scribe, Black Inc and Penguin Random House all donated brand-new novels, nonfiction and picture books for the cause.

Now, we are in the last week of the online auction: the final activity in our Great Book Swap calendar for this year! Authors and artists at RMIT and beyond have donated 50 items: signed books, original artworks, prints and even designer lamps. Bids are coming in fast, and there is only one week left to get yours in!

The auction will close at 12pm on Thursday 5 November.

Browse and bid now

Photography from the sale stalls

Photos by AJ Penrose and May Sivakumaran. View more on Flickr.

29 October 2026

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