The Book/Work Project

We've been thinking about running a series on things people have been able to accomplish with the help of a library book as part of the National Year of Reading. Have you been able to complete a project? travel to interesting places? learn something new? change your life? as the result of a book you have borrowed from the Library? Why not share the story. We're looking for short descriptions of your project, the name of the book and a photo/s that sum it all up. Your story will go up on the blog and could be used in displays at our libraries and it's also a great opprotunity to show off your project.

If you are interested in taking part, email your story and photos to Library@campbelltown.nsw.gov.au

To give you an idea, here's some that we prepared earlier.


New Life in the old chair!

With the help of David James "Upholstery a Complete Course" and Dorothy Gates' "The Essential Guide to Upholstery" I got the inspiration and technical know how to re-upholster my 1920's era club lounge chair. While I had done some basic upholstery before, this was a big project, with lots of springs and a range of traditional upholstery techniques. I'm pretty happy with the results!

Before

After

Brewing My Own

Brewing beer has always fascinated me and the Library's collection of home brewing books has mean't I'm now able to brew excellent beer at home. I've even won a few awards! After getting less than satisfactory results from the kits available at the supermarket I found the home brewing section at the Library and I haven't looked back. My two favourite books are Jamil Zainasheff's Brewing Classic Styles and Randy Mosher's Radical Brewing. The beer in the photo is an English Bitter.



An English Bitter and the books that helped me to make it