October School Holidays
Exploring science
Bowral Memorial Hall
Friday 11 October 2019
2.30pm
Magic Jester
Mittagong Community Centre
Thursday 10th October 2019
3.30pm
Glitter Art
Bowral Library
Henrietta Rose Room
Wednesday 2nd October 2019
10.00am
Moss Vale Library
Friday 4 October 2019
3.00pm
Scrunch art
Moss Vale Library
Friday 11 October 2019
3.00pm
Bookings essential
Book now or head to our events calendar for more details.
For advance notice of school holiday and other kids and teens events join our Possum and Bilby mailing lists
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Grandparents Day at Wingecarribee Libraries
Bring along your Grandparents and/or older people to our weekly Baby Rhymetime and Preschool Storytime to help us celebrate Grandparents Day!
Baby Rhymetime
Wednesday 23 October 2019
10.30am
Henrietta Rose Room
Bowral Library
Mittagong & Moss Vale Libraries
Preschool Storytime
Thursday 24 October 2019
10.45am
Bowral Library Preschool Storytime
Friday 25 October 2019
11.00am
No booking required
Enquiries 1300 266 235
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The October FOWL author talk by David Crow has SOLD OUT
For those of you lucky enough to secure tickets to this month’s sold out event, David Crowe joins us to talk about his latest book Venom.
David Crowe is the chief political correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and a regular commentator on national affairs on radio and television. In a career spanning 25 years, he has covered federal politics as the national affairs editor of The Australian. His latest book, Venom: Vendettas, Betrayals and the Price of Power is an account of the rivalries and hatreds that split the Liberal Party, brought down Malcom Turnbull and propelled Scott Morrison to power.
David’s recount reveals the secret history of the power play that lead to the leadership spill on August 2018.
Keep an eye out for next months event in our Events Calendar and join the Friends of Wingcarribee Libraries to receive first notice of upcoming speakers.
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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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Can you separate fact from fiction when it comes to drugs and alcohol?
Visit the travelling interactive information display Drug & Alcohol Info Hub in Bowral Library in October.
The aim of the program is to provide people with up to date and accessible information about drugs and alcohol and identify support networks and agencies within the local community.
On display will be the Know Your Standards standard drink educational pouring and display kit and a tablet with content from Drug Info and NSW Health.
So, can you pour a standard drink? How will you fare in the Beer Goggle challenge?
Call into Bowral Library from October 9 -26 and have some fun with standards.
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Reading between the wines : Book Club kits
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The trauma cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
Brand new addition to the Book Club Kit collection!
Husband, father, drag queen, sex worker, wife. Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner is a love letter to an extraordinary ordinary life. In Sandra Pankhurst she discovered a woman capable of taking a lifetime of hostility and transphobic abuse and using it to care for some of society's most in-need people.
Wingecarribee Libraries have 72 Book Club Kits available for loan so you can share your reading with friends.
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Digestibles : titles to savour
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The shared table : Vegetarian and vegan feasts to cook for your crowd
By Clare Scrine
Request me
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E-Library : the latest and greatest in eResources
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Introducing our newest addition - Mango Languages
Travelling? Honing skills you might not have used in a while or simply interested in learning a new language? Mango Languages can help.
Register with your email address, create a password and start using this award winning language learning resource. More than 70 languages are available, as well as videos, downloadable support material and more. See what Mango Languages has to offer here.
“Start the conversation in your choice of over 70 world languages and dialects through courses crafted using conversational methodology. Every self-paced language course introduces the learner to cultural insights and grammatical nuances specific to their language of choice, delivered through native speaker dialogue, and created with each individual learner in mind.”
Check out our other eResources here. Would you like some tech help? Book in for a Tech Time session.
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Archival Revival : discovering our local history
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New family history research eBooks now on BorrowBox
We’ve just added new eBooks to BorrowBox. Download the BorrowBox app from your appstore, log in with your library card and search for “family history” to find all the great titles available. Borrow recent international publications and refine your family history research at home, or anywhere you like to learn. Find more titles from BorrowBox here.
Find more family history eResources here or more general library eResources here
Local Studies is open 2.00pm-4.00pm Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, upstairs in the Old Town Hall, in front of Bowral Library. See what we have in the collection here.
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Kids & Teens : learn, play, read
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Pause for Paws
Need a quiet space and some TLC in preparation for the HSC? Bowral Library has organised three days of study, snacks and cuddles to get you through!
The Henrietta Rose Room will be open for HSC study between 9am and 5pm on Tuesday 8th, Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th October 2019.
And thanks to Wingecarribee Shire Council’s Youth Program we will be visited by pooches from PAWS Pet Therapy throughout each day.
Tables and chairs will be provided for study, along with a quiet atmosphere.
Morning and afternoon tea will also be on offer in the kitchen.
Register now
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Author of the month : Julia Donaldson
Julia Donaldson was born in 1948 and grew up in London with her parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister and cat, Geoffrey. Julia studied drama and French at Bristol University where she met her husband Malcolm. Before marrying, they used to busk together, Julia often writing songs for each country, her favourite being in Italian about pasta.
Julia spent many years writing songs for children's television. In 1993 one of her songs was turned into a book, A squash and a squeeze. This prompted Julia to unearth some of her plays, with 46 of them having been published. Since then she has written over a hundred books and plays for children and teenagers, including the award-winning rhyming stories The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale and Zog, all illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which are among the UK’s best-selling picture books.
Interesting facts :
· Julia was chosen to be the Children’s Laureate in 2011-2013
· When writing a rhyming book, Julia will hand write, but if it is a non-rhyming book she will often use her computer
· When Julia isn’t writing she is often performing at book festivals and theatres
See what titles we hold in the library by Julia Donaldson
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Get reading : read before you watch YA
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