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Library Spotlight: Thursday, August 4

Spotlight:  Library Services

You don’t have to wait until Local Government Week to enjoy the services of the library!  It’s available for residents, ratepayers, and visitors to enjoy throughout the year.

After filling out a simple application form, you can begin your reading journey at once, borrowing up to twenty items, which can include books, magazines, paperbacks, DVDs, CDs, and talking books. 

Public libraries are no longer just ‘book places but people spaces’.  They are places were you feel welcome even if you just want to come in out of the cold while your car is getting serviced, or you are waiting for the train or an appointment time.  Find a cosy corner, read a newspaper, have a cuppa.  And if you find that ideal recipe or knitting pattern, you can have it copied, items laminated, or signed and verified by one of the JPs. 

The library also runs 14 programs a week, from Brain Training @ the Library, Make it @ the Library, Book Buddies for youngsters, and Housebound and Shop Bound library services. 

If you’re not sure what we do, or what we can do for you, just come in and chat with the friendly staff!

Spotlight:  Australiana collection

The library has its non-fiction or factual books arranged in genres, so you’ll find all the books on Australia together in one group – here you can find books on Australian politics and government, social science, transport, architecture, and of course history. 

Spotlight:  New books

Plenty of new books have been added to the shelves this last week.

Amongst the new titles are by Fiona McCallum’s Her time to shine ‘… a tender story about finding strength and fulfilment after major upheaval …’, and a new copy of War flower by Mary-Anne O’Connor, ‘an epic story of love, war and forgiveness.’

For something completely different, try a science fiction novel by J. M. Miro called Ordinary monsters (is there such a thing?!).  The book is described as ‘Haunting, tense, earth-shattering.  A riveting mix of magic and terror’. 

Dolly Parton has partnered with James Patterson to write Run Rose Run – a thriller with a musical twist. 

The language of food by Annabel Abbs is a novel ‘based on the true story of Britain’s first domestic goddess’

See you soon at the library!