Library News

GARDEN EXPO.    The Library Group, with the support of Management are orchestrating a Garden Expo for the Village. This will take place over the coming months, with the judging of the gardens offered for consideration, in September. This leaves you all plenty of time to decide:

• If you want to opt out.
• If you want your garden considered.
• Which category (or categories) you wish to have your garden included.
• The work you need to do to win yourself an award in any particular item.

The judging will be done in early September, by an impartial judge, and awards will be presented at a lavish Afternoon Tea in the Community Hall, at a date to be decided.

Keep your eye out for the information flyer and please use the reply slip to indicate your interest (or not) as the case may be.  When you see the categories you will realise that you do not need green fingers to be an entrant. All types of gardens can be considered for the Garden Expo.

LIBRARY REVAMP.  It has become increasingly obvious to our little group of re-shelvers and cataloguers that many authors now have books written in a variety of genres. For example, two very popular writers, James Patterson and Norah Roberts now have books in Thriller, General and even Romance. This applies to many other lesser known authors and leads to some confusion when putting books back on shelves and when deciding what colour dot to give them when they are processed.

So we have decided to make an integrated collection and the work will begin very soon. This will mean that for a few weeks the Library may be in a bit of turmoil, but it will be well worth the inconvenience and the work involved.

• The DVDs will remain the same.
• The Nonfiction will be removed to a separate and more accessible area.
• All books will continue to be marked with the appropriate sticker colour. ( orange: Mystery Thriller / blue: General Fiction / pink: Romance / yellow: Biography and True Stories)   Please note that a gold sticker on a book with another colour denotes Historical Fiction.
• All books by a particular author will then be housed together, so all Patterson books will have the letters PAT on the spine and the appropriate colour sticker to show whether it is a Mystery, Thriller, Romance or General Fiction book. All Norah Roberts (JD Robb) will be the same. And the same will follow for all the fiction novels in the Library.

If you have any comments to make on these plans, please make your thoughts clear by dropping a note into the mail box for No.10 or the mail box for No. 212. We welcome courteous, sensible suggestions, and even better when they are backed up by offers of assistance.

Book Reviews:  We have two books in the biography section (yellow dot) that are written by two very well-known authors, Bryce Courtney and Danielle Steele.  They both follow the same theme of telling the true story of the illness and death of each of their beloved sons.

Danielle Steele departs from her normal romantic sizzler to chart the dreadful course taken by her boy, Nick Traina, through the terrors of manic depression (now known as Bi-Polar). She outlines the desperate struggle to keep him from suicide during his teen years and the devastation when he was finally successful, around his 19thbirthday. He had developed from a bright loving child who taught himself to read at age three, into a dark, unhappy young man who was unable to cope with the ravages of this awful condition. “His Bright Light”: The Story of Nick Traina by Danielle Steele. STE with a yellow dot.

Bryce Courtney has a very different story. The book is a tribute to the author's son, Damon Courtenay, a haemophiliac who contracted HIV/AIDS through an infected blood transfusion. The title refers to the date of Damon's death, 1 April 1991 (April Fools' Day). It outlines the social attitudes of the times with the shame of Aids making the disease a hidden dirty secret and highlights the way Damon and the Courtney family faced this tragic issue together.  “April Fools’ Day” by Bryce Courtney. COU with a yellow dot.

The Biography section ( soon to be integrated with all other sections) has a wealth of true stories, life experiences and wonderful gossip, all mixed up with humour and pathos, just as is the way in the real world. Browse amongst the Yellow Dot books to find something that you really relate to, and really enjoy. Each one is a glimpse into the lives of those we hold in esteem, and admiration, or those we can identify with as well as those we have come to despise and rejoice in their downfall.

The Library Group is a loose knit friendship group which welcomes readers and book lovers to its ranks. Come along on the first Monday of the month at 2.00pm and join us for coffee and chat. We promise not to put you to work unless you really want to be involved and then we will train you to help us process new arrivals and to re-shelve returned materials.

Contact Lorraine: 0409 600 963 or Pam: 4358 4811

       

Garden Expo: LLV 2018