1. Does the project meet a community need?
2. Does the project benefit a sufficiently broad, or diverse, target group?
3. Does the organisation have the capacity to undertake and manage the project?
4. Does the application represent value for money?
5. collaborative community wide projects are encouraged;
6. demonstrating alignment with the Shire of Katanning community vision

Opening Hours

Katanning Public Library Opening Hours:
Monday:          10.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday:         10.00am - 5.00pm
Wednesday:    1.00pm - 5.00pm
Thursday:        10.00am - 5.00pm
Friday:             10.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday:         10.00am - 1.00pm
Sunday:           CLOSED
 

Become a member

A Katanning Library membership gives you free online access to free online movies, ebooks, and audiobooks. Ask us at the library, we will show you how it works.

Library Club - Every Monday 2:30pm

Story Time- Every Tuesday 10.00am




Toy Library
Tuesdays and Saturdays
10.30am-11.30am






Genealogy Thursdays
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Have you ever wanted to trace your family history but don’t know where to start?
Have you already begun the journey but have hit a wall?
Do you have the skills, time and know-how to help others in their ancestry search?
Drop in on Thursday afternoons during school terms to meet Wyn and Irene of the Katanning Genealogical Society. 

Did you know…?
 
You can have full access to Ancestry.com free from within the Library!
Ancestry.com is an amazing tool for researching and mapping your family tree and normally full access requires an ongoing membership that costs $30 a month.

Life Long Readers Book Club
Meeting Date: Friday 7 June 2019
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Where: Library Community Room

People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war

In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she begins to unlock the book’s mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book’s journey from its salvation back to its creation. 

In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city’s rising anti-Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his family destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in 1480, the reason for the Haggadah’s extraordinary illuminations is finally disclosed. Hanna’s investigation unexpectedly plunges her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself and the man she has come to love. 

Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.

New arrivals at the library

1. Development Approval for Lot 22 Braeside Road, Katanning Pinwernying for the purpose of Addition to oversize Outbuilding subject to conditions.
2. Development Approval for Lot 165 Beaufort Street, Katanning for the purpose of Twelve Grouped Dwellings, subject to conditions.
3. Council invites tenders for the management and operation of the Katanning Aquatic Centre for a period of no less than three years and submits an in-house tender.
4. Endorsed the construction of four independent living units and three key worker housing units in the Piesse Lake Residential subdivision.