Celebrate Library & Information Week with us!

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 Australia A Reading Nation" programme which is designed to encourage reading and literacy in the home. Its a great initiative and nice see international Superstars, like the Wiggles supported such a great programme. There's even a video.

Tim Ross at Ingleburn Library

Your Tutor

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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Happy Birthday Ingleburn

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 celebrate with Ingleburn staff.

Campbelltown Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

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.

New Technology

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 fly.

We've also grabbed ourselves a couple of Amazon Kindles to test and explore how we can use them across the library service.

Kindles are an ebook reader designed to integrate into the Amazon online book shop. Ebooks are considerably less expensive than their hardcopy versions and the waiting time between orering a book on Amazon and its delivery to the kindle is about 15 seconds. That's pretty fast torunaround.

Kindles only became available in Australia in the last couple of weeks and I've been very impressed with the usability and readability of the devices. A lot of libraries in the States are already lending the devices to their members. Hopefully the range of ebook readers available in Australia will start to expand.