Holiday Lending

During the Holiday period double loans and double loan periods are in operation. The Holiday loans will continue until January 26th 2009. If you have any questions pelase call the library on 4645 4436

Have a safe and happy holidays!

Movember

A few of the team are participating in Movember. And together are growing library Mo's

The money raised by Movember is used to raise awareness of men's health issues and donated to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and beyondblue - the national depression initiative. The PCFA and beyondblue will use the funds to fund research and increase support networks for those men who suffer from prostate cancer and depression.

Did you know:

• Depression affects 1 in 6 men....most don't seek help. Untreated depression is a leading risk factor for suicide.



• Last year in Australia 18,700 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer and more than 2,900 died of prostate cancer - equivalent to the number of women who will die from breast cancer annually.

You can make a donation to the cause here

And come back each week to check out the progress.

So far we look like this:

Knit In

Congratulations to the knitters of Campbelltown who easily surpassed last years knit in record to complete 41 blankets for Wrap with love. You can find out more about Wrap with love at there website here http://www.artsandcraftsnsw.com.au/Wrap.htm .

Library team out and about

While we provide a lot of great services in our branch and central libraries, we also get out and about to promote our services at events like Naidoc Week, Ingleburn Alive & the Fisher's Ghost Festival.

Recently some of the team went to the Riverfest event to launch our new Living Library service. The Living library is a library made up of people. You can borrow a living book for a short time to learn about their life and experiences. We are planning to start lending soon, but if you are interested in joining the collection please let us know.

One of the highlights of the day is the dry riverboat race. This year we entered for the first time in the SS Living Library. We had fun!

Toys of Yesteryear

Our Heritage Festival exhibition this year was all about toys. Toys are really important - they help us develop, exercise our imagination and bring back happy memories.

If you can't make it to the library to see the exibition, check out the video of the toys in action below.

We want your feedback on the new Web Catalogue

Late last year we implemented a new web catalogue whihc introduced a whole lot of new functionality and tools that we will be rolling out over the next few months.

We've had a lot of informal feedback about the new catalogue and invite you to give us your opinion through an online survey we are running.

You feedback is confidential and it will help us to improve and develop the system so that it meets your needs.

You can access the survey here at the survey page

Talking Heads

Our author programme is bigger than ever in 2008 and will be kicking off in Februrary with two very special events.

Firstly, on library lovers day (14th February), we are very lucky to have an evening with Sugarbabe author Holly Hill. Sugarbabe is Holly's account of the emails, meetings with hundreds of men who applied to become her sugar daddy and provides a thought provoking view of love, sex and marriage in our throwaway society.

Then on Thursday 21st February Hugh Mackay, one of Australia's best known social commentators will be visiting to discuss his latest books "advance Australia where" and "Little Lies". Hugh Mackay is a regular columist for the Age and regularly appears on television and radio. Hugh is a very entertaining speaker so this is definitely an evening not to miss.

As usual, these events are free however bookings are essential, so please phone 46454444 to secure your seat.

The author talks commence at 6.30 pm and refreshments will be served.