Wingecarribee Public Libraries Christmas Craft
Come along and make a Christmas card, Wreath and Christmas sand art.
For children aged between 5-12 years.
Bowral Library :
Wednesday 19th December 2018
4pm-4.30pm
Mittagong Library :
Thursday 20 December 2018
4pm-4.30pm
Moss Vale Library :
Thursday 20 December 2018
4pm-4.30pm
Bookings essential
www.wingecarribeepubliclibraries.eventbrite.com
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Tech Time at Wingecarribee Libraries
Do you have a new device but you're not sure where to get started? Call and book a Tech time session for 30 minutes of one-on-one help with your technology problems.
Tech Time can help you increase your confidence in setting up and using eBooks, eAudio and eMagazines; tablet, phone and computer basics; setting up an email account; using social media; downloading apps to your mobile devices and more.
To learn more and book your 30 minute Tech Time session head to our events calendar.
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Wingecarribee Libraries will close for Christmas
on Saturday, 22nd December 2018:
- Mittagong and Moss Vale Libraries
at 12noon
- Bowral Library at 4pm
The libraries will re-open for business as usual
on Wednesday, 2nd January 2018.
Items may be renewed online at www.library.wsc.nsw.gov.au
We're still open online, though! eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines and movies are available throughout the break. Head to our eResources page to checkout our new releases, kids and teens titles, great documentaries and more.
Staff wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year.
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Reading between the wines : Book Club kits
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Indelible ink by Fiona McGregor
Wingecarribee Libraries have 69 Book Club Kits available for loan so you can share your reading with friends.
Beyond the domestic drama of Indelible Ink – it’s tough, yet tender, appreciation of family dynamics, its revelation of character as an endless war of contradictory impulses fought within a single, human frame – McGregor has set out to exhaustively catalogue Sydney in all its guises.
It is an enterprise anthropological in reach, drawing on everything from history and the built environment to gay subculture and the economics of real estate. Even the melt and drift at its close feels like a nod to the city’s endless droning summers.
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Digestibles : titles to savour
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YES YES YES: Australia’s journey to marriage equality
by Alex Greenwich and Shirleene Robinson
Read a review
Request me
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E-Library : the latest and greatest in eResources
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Rockin’ docos: Beamafilm brings back beats
“After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life” – Keith Richards
Beamafilm has music fans covered over the break. Watch great documentaries about iconic rock acts like The Rolling Stones, The Stooges, and Midnight Oil, and learn more about enigmatic musicians Janis Joplin, Glenn Gould, and Jeremy Oxley from The Sunnyboys.
Our pick is Searching for Sugarman, a powerful, unforgettable music mystery.
“In the late ‘60s, a musician was discovered in a Detroit bar by two celebrated producers who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics. They recorded an album that they believed was going to secure his reputation as one of the greatest recording artists of his generation. In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, it became a phenomenon. Two South African fans then set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation led them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez.”
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Archival Revival : discovering our local history
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Real-photo postcards
Discover our collection of real-photo postcards for a snapshot of the past. The Local Studies Collection is open 2.00-4.00pm Tuesday and Thursday, or by appointment, in the Old Town Hall in front of Bowral Library, 18 Bendooley Street, Bowral. You can also find out more about our collection on our Local Studies page here.
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Kids & Teens : learn, play, read
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Summer Reading Club
Summer Reading Club runs from 1 December 2018—31 January 2019.
For Kids & teens between 5-16 years.
Register at your branch library from 1 December 2018.
Visit your library from 1 December to pick up your Summer Reading Activity Pack. Start reading and remember to fill in your Reading Log.
Read as many books as you like, but each time you read 5 books, you will receive a bonus ticket in the major prize draw.
Major Prize $100 gift voucher
All Reading Logs need to be handed in to your branch library before 5pm, Thursday 31st January 2019 to be eligible for the Major Prize draw.
Those who have read 5 or more books will be given an invite to our End of Summer Reading Club Party where there are more prizes to be won!
Proudly sponsored by the Friends of Wingecarribee Libraries.
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Vacancies available in Code Club 2019
Ever wanted to create your own computer game? Join our Code Club which runs every Wednesday from 3.45pm-4.45pm during school term at Bowral Library for 8-12 year olds.
Very limited spaces. If your child is interested please email : trudy.eccleston@wsc.nsw.gov.au
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Author of the month : Toni Cary
The library has recently purchased the first two children’s books in the Alcheringa series which are written and illustrated by Toni Cary who lived in the Southern Highlands for 25 years.
Toni is an author, award winning artist and poet. As an older teen, Toni took up the use of pastel, charcoal and pencil for quick sketching and illustrating family members as well as the local scenery around the Blue Mountains where she resided until the age of 20.
Toni married and had 3 children. From 1989 she and her former husband ran a guesthouse in Bundanoon, where “Dial M” murder mystery weekends were born in 1991. Complex interactive murder mysteries were written and run at the guesthouse. During these 15 years and afterwards, Toni painted and produced large wall sized canvas backdrops for themed events.
Toni self published 3 books, Strong hands, gentle heart, Manor Dangerous and Wives’ tales. Manor Dangerous was also turned into a TV pilot series for ABC.
In 2013 Toni revisited the use of pastel pencils after moving from Southern Highlands where she had resided for 25 years to retire to Snowy Mountains. Toni religiously photographed the bushland, the local animals an often stark emptiness of the snowy wilderness. This was the inspiration for the first book Alcheringa Snow.
The illustrations for Toni’s children’s books Alcheringa Snow, Alcheringa Flowers, Alcheringa Sunshine and the last in the series Alcheringa Rain, depict the world of real sanctuary known as Alcheringa, a small property situated at 1300m in the hills of the Snowy Mountains.
The fauna, as well as the terrain and flora of the Snowy Monaro Shire features in all her books along with the series’ heroine, Francine, the large 10 year old snow white Pyrenean mountain dog that resided with Toni and her partner Clinton.
See the titles we hold in the library by Toni Cary
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Get reading : picture books coming soon
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