tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89934871116143156462012-01-31T08:48:28.394+11:00Grantnoreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993487111614315646.post-80303700558088006422011-12-23T12:03:00.003+11:002011-12-23T12:03:54.345+11:00

We'd like to wish all of our customers and readers a very Happy Holiday. Take care if you are travelling, and we look forward to seeing you all in 2012.

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During December we will be hold a fines amnesty. If you have overdue books or existing fines, you can resolve them with the donation of long life food items that will be distributed through the Mayor's Christmas Appeal. Food items must be in date and in good condition and the donation must equal the approximate value of the fine. To find out more contact you local branch library. The amnesty

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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

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Council is seeking the assistance of the Campbelltown community in the redevelopment of its website. In order to understand the needs of our website visitors, and to ensure that the new website is user-friendly, Council is conducting a testing program that will help us deliver an effective online information tool. The activity will take around five minutes to complete, and your participation

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History week this year will see a fascinating exhibtion of Kitchenalia and historical photographs at the HJ Daley Library. The Local Information team have conjured an exhibition of antique and not so antique kitchen items that will make you wonder at how hard putting together a meal must have been. Some of the highlights include a near mint box of Smiths Chips, an original bully beef

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Let us know what you think about Campbelltown Library's services and facilities on our online survey - http://bitly.com/dNTYYh . Your opinions are important and will help us to improve our services and plan for the future.

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Due to power system maintenance this afternoon our Web Opac and other online services will not be accessible after 6pm. Normal service will be restored at 9am tomorrow morning.As part of the outage, the HJ Daley Library will be closing today at 4.30pm.We apologise for any inconvenience.

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Once again we are participating in 702 ABC Sydney's "Knit In" supporting the excellent charity Wrap with Love.Up until Friday 5 August we will be collecting knitted and squares and completed rugs that will help to keep people warm all over the World. Wrap With Love has been distributing blankets since 1992 and in that time has distributed over 255,000 wraps.Last year Campbelltown knitters put

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Don't miss out on a chance to join over 170,000 other people as part of national simultaneous story time. At 11am, all Campbelltown Libraries will be hosting a story time and reading Rod Clement's Feather's for Phoebe.You can find out more about Rod Clement and his work by visiting his page at Harper Collins Publishers.

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It's Library and Information week across Australia, so why not came and join in the fun at a Campbelltown Branch Library!A key part of the celebrations will be National Simultaneous Storytime on Wednesday May 25 at 11am. Every Library will be hosting a storytime for pre schoolers where they will experience "Feathers for Phoebe" by Rod Clement.As part of LIW The Wiggles have launched the "Make

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We recently won a national award for our Your Tutor online homework help programme.You an read more about it here

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Interested in the latest information about Campbelltown Library? Why not follow us on Twitter! Click on the link below or search for @CtownLibrary.

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Time flies when you're having fun and this week marks the first birthday of the new Ingleburn Library and community centre. During the last twelve months the new library has seen a phenomenal increase in activity. We have lent 136,736 items, satisfied 10,994 reservations, been visited 99,416 times and welcomed in 3,259 new members. Not bad for a small branch library!The Mayor was on hand today to

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Here's a short video produced by our Local Studies staffer Michael S. using resources from the historic pictures database and the local studies collection.

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Things are moving very rapidly on the technology front for libraries. We've recently introduced a new type of talking book reader known has the Victor Reader Stream from Humanware, to our home library service. The readers, are basically MP3 players designed specifically from people with a vision impairment and are light, easy to use and can convert printed documents into read documents on the

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During the July school holidays we hosted a Chinese/Japanese ink brush painting workshop. Here are some examples of what our young people produced at the workshop. There is certainly a lot of great inkbrush talent out there!

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As part of our partnership with the Sydney Writer's Festival, we're proud to be hosting Wendy Harmer at the Ingleburn Community Centre on Thursday 21 May at 7pm.Wendy will be talking about her new novel "Roadside Sisters". Roadside Sisters charts the trip of three middle-aged women – Nina, Annie and Meredith – who climb aboard the mighty RoadMaster Royale motorhome for an epic voyage from

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Vietnam veteran Don Tate will visit HJ Daley Library on Tuesday April 21 2009 to discuss his recent memoir “The War Within”. “The War Within” has been variously described as a brutally honest and a gritty insight into the life of a soldier at war. Don will also screen rare footage of his service in Vietnam during his presentation. Don has appeared on both Channel 9's "RPA programme and the ABC's

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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 4436Have a safe and happy holidays!

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

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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 .

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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The holidays are nearly upon us and all Campbelltown Libraries will be varying their hours of operation over the Christmas/New Year period.All Branch Libraries will close at 1pm on 24th December and reopen at the usual time on the 27th December.All Branch Libraries will close at 1pm on 31st December and reopen at the usual time on the 2nd of January 2008.Everyone here at the Library would like

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We've recently deployed a new and improved Library Management System and Catalogue. Our new Libero system provides the latest in technology to streamline our operations and will greatly improve your access to our collections and third party information through the internet.Our new web catalogue is up and running and you can give it a try at http://www2.campbelltown.nsw.gov.au/LIBERO/WebOpac.cls .

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Campbelltown City Library Service will again be hosting an author visit in partnership with Books Alive.Books Alive is an Australian Government initiative, developed through the Australia Council for the Arts and book publishers, that aims to encourage all Australians to experience the joys of reading. Every year, Books Alive delivers nationwide campaign to ignite the country’s passion for books

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How do you like your coffee? Espresso, cappuccino, latte? Well whichever way you like it, you can now enjoy it at most Campbelltown branch libraries.The HJ Daley Central Library, Minto Community Library and Glenquarie branch library now have Kikko Max coffee machines providing you with a freshly ground, piping hot cup of java. The coffee machines are easy to use and at just $2 per cup it is great

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Have you ever wanted to be part of a book club or a reading group?We're planning to introduce book clubs and would like to invite anyone who's interested in participating in them to register their interest.Book clubs are a great way of reading new books and meeting people. The clubs will meet in the library on last wednesday of each month and be limited in size to about 10 readers. We supply the

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Bookalicious continues to grow and after just 13 months, we are preparing to welcome our 1000th member ! Join Bookalicious soon and you could be the lucky one. Our 1000th member will receive a distinctive Bookalicious back pack. Visit your local branch and find out how to join. Even if you aren't our 1000, you will still be able to attend the members only event,"Bookalicious Magic", planned for

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Campbelltown will again be hosting a satellite event for this years Sydney Writing Festival and this year we are very excited to have special guest author Tom Keneally visiting us to talk about his new novel "The Widow and her hero".Tom is the author of over 27 books including the Booker prize winning "Schindler's List", "Bring Larks and Heroes" and "The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith". Tom is widely

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Campbelltown Library will be hosting a display of Wests Tigers Memorabilia.The exhibition is a complete history of the Western Suburbs and Wests Tigers rugby league clubs and includes items such as published books, newspaper clippings, photographs, video and DVD footage, match programmes and a wide range of trophies, jersey and blazers.The exhibition will be launched on Tuesday 13th March by

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Come and join us for a wine and cheese evening with guest author Angela Rossmanith on Valentine's day.Angela is an author and journalist with a particular interest in social issues, relationships and life matters. She has written for publications such as Nature and Health, Harper's Bazaar and The Sydney Morning Herald and will be joining us at the HJ Daley Library on 14.2.2007 between 6.30 pm and

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Campbelltown City Council is currently planning the construction of a new library and community facility at Ingleburn. The proposed plans have recently been submitted for development approval and are now available for public view and comment. You can access the plans here, or in person at Ingleburn and the HJ Daley Libraries.The new facility will feature state of the art environmental design and

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Have you read any good books lately and want to share the exprience? Why not head over the library's online Reader's Lounge and submit a review.The lounge has lots of resources to help you find great new authors and books and you can also read and post book reviews of your favourites. If you liked an author and want to know what else they wrote, or who writes like them, have a look at the "

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Not long now before the holidays are over but there's still plenty of great holiday activities running over the next couple of weeks at your local Campbelltown Library Branch. Why not catch the latest in science at the Questacon show, become a "story sleuth" catch a movie or get crazy with craft. Further details are in our School holiday activities brochure.

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Campbelltown Library's junior reading club "Bookalicious" will be holding its innaugural convention on the 9th January. Special guest Richard Tulloch author of Special Stuff, Weird Stuff and Freaky Stuff will be there to talk about his books and there will be heaps of other activities. Places are stictly limited so for further information and bookings call 46454444.

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The staff of Campbelltown City Library Service would like to wish all of our members and customers a very happy and safe Christmas. We look forward to seeing you all in the New Year.Remeber that all special operating hours are in effect over the holiday period and you can find more information about your local branches hours on our web site.

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The Reference and Information services team at Campbelltown have set up a new blog specialising in information about school assignments.Many assignments recur each year and the guys have created permanent web pages to assist with these. Other assignments may be one-offs and they may just post a few helpful hints. We hope you find this blog helpful and encourage students to post any comments to

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Over the Holiday period Campbelltown Libraries will be operating for slightly different hours.H.J. Daley Central Library, Glenquarie Branch, Ingleburn Branch & Eagle Vale BranchClose 5:00 p.m. Friday 22nd December 2006Reopening Wednesday 27th December 2006New Year Operating HoursH.J. Daley Central Library, Glenquarie Branch, Ingleburn Branch & Eagle Vale BranchClose 5:00 p.m. Friday 29th December

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Its nearly the holidays! Hooray! We're really looking forward to the holidays this year and have a bumper programme of kids activities to keep enthusiasm high and boredom low. We've got everything from blockbuster entertainment to the latest Questacon science shows. Why not learn to make balloon animals or play with slime, gases and magnets, become a Story Sleuth, experiment with bubbles and

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As well as the databases that are available from our Virtual Reference Desk you can now trial a range of high quality databases from the State Library of NSW. From July to November 2006 the State Library is offering trial access from home to the following selection of databases for residents of New South Wales.You must first register for a State Library Readers Card, which you can do online, and

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You can now register with Library Elf to track your library account. Using Library Elf, an Internet-based tool from an independently run company, you can receive email and/or RSS feed reminders about when your items are due for return and requested titles that are ready for pick-up. You can even track all family library cards on the one account!How do I get reminders from Library Elf?Because

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For those who are aware of the SMH on CDROM that we subscribe to, there has been a technological change for 2006 and beyond. Fairfax is discontinuing the production of the CDROM and it has been replaced by a "Digital Archive" website. The digital archive covers from January 2006 onwards and, unlike the CDROM version, includes ALL of the newspaper - classifieds, advertisements, photographs

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From December 8th, library members can take advantage of our special christmas extended loan period and unlimited item counts. Stock up on your favourite books, CDs and DVDs before the holidays and enjoy a stressfree 6 weeks before needing to return them. Of course if you're through with them early, you can return them at any branch library. For more information about our holiday loans and

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This is the first posting in the Campbelltown City Library blog. You can catch up on the latest news and information about the Library service and our programmes. Drop in from time to time to check up on the latest news.

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