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The Cambridge Library Reader
How have we already arrived at the halfway mark for 2022? Admittedly, we may have been a little distracted the last month with all the amazing events that were held at Cambridge Library, culminating in a number of celebratory NAIDOC week events.
This month, the Library turns 20 and we hope you'll join us on Friday 15th July for some celebratory macarons!
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Library Event
Q & A's with Doctor Leon Levitt, Author and GP Obstetrician
10am, Friday 5th August 2022
(following Baby Rhyme Time)
Dr. Leon has a new approach to parenting to bring back calmness, control and joy.
He will be sharing insights from his debut book, 'What do I do now? The basics of parenting babies without stress'. Topics covered will include common parental stresses, strategies for surviving parenthood and specific health issues such colic, reflux, eczema, food allergies and tongue-tie.
Bookings are essential for this event and can be made online via Eventbrite. Alternatively, email or call the Library on 9383 8999.
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Online Event
Meet our author : Angela Slatter in conversation with Juliet Marillier
6.30pm, Tuesday 26th July 2022
Join Angela Slatter as she meets with host and fellow author Juliet Marillier. Angela is an internationally acclaimed Australian author of gothic fantasy. She has won mutliple awards including seven Aurealis Awards and two Australian Shadows Awards, as well as the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story: 'The Coffin-Maker's Daughter'.
Bookings can be made online here.
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Library Event
Author Talk with Leah MacGuire
11.00am to 11.30am, Wednesday 24th August 2022
Join local author Leah MacGuire as she discusses her newly published novel 'Burning Issues', a family saga set amidst the dairy farms of South Australia.
Spaces are limited and bookings for this event are essential. They can be made online via Eventbrite, alternatively, email or phone the Library on 9383 8999.
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Scribblers Festival 2022
The hunt for Scribblers Festival Golden Feather has begun at Cambridge Library! Find a shiny Gold, Silver, or limited-edition Amethyst Feather & win exciting prizes, or decorate a White Feather for the chance to win a Spot Prize. Eagle-eyed treasure hunters should be on the lookout for feather-shaped bookmarks which have been hidden between the pages of our junior & young adult books.
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Galup (Lake Monger) VR Experience
Looking for something different to fill the last few days of the school holidays? A free virtual reality film about unknown stories of Lake Monger is showing at WA Museum until the 17th July 2022. Suitable for ages 13+, it runs every 30 minutes between 11.00am-3.30pm. Galup VR Experience is a profound immersive experience which explores truth-telling and brings people together for connection and healing. The Galup VR Experience includes contributions from Cambridge Library's own Local Studies Team.
Tickets are free but booking is recommended as the live version at Perth Festival sold out within minutes! Book your session here
Learn more about the impact of colonisation on Galup here
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New Items in July 2022
This month's new item release focuses on our language learning collection and covers a wide range of languages. Don't forget to complement your learning with our online language learning resource Transparent Languages Online (available on your desktop or phone via the TLO app for both Apple and Android).
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Big Library Read by Overdrive
13th to 27th July 2022
Dive into a suspenseful USA Today bestselling novel during the Big Library Read, the world’s largest digital book club. From July 13-27, readers will join over a hundred thousand others around the globe in enjoying Audrey Blake’s historical fiction The Girl in His Shadow from their public library. Borrow the ebook and audiobook for free without waiting on the Libby app or visit Overdrive. Readers can then discuss online here.
The Girl in His Shadow takes place in London in 1845. Raised by surgeon Dr. Horace Croft after losing her parents, Nora Beady knows little about conventional life and much about suturing and anatomical illustrations of dissections. Women face dire consequences if caught practicing medicine, but in Croft's private clinic Nora is his most trusted—and secret—assistant… until the new surgical resident Dr. Daniel Gibson arrives. To protect Dr. Croft and his practice Nora must learn to play a new and uncomfortable role—that of a proper young lady. When she makes a discovery that could change the field forever, Nora faces an impossible choice. Remain invisible and let the men around her take credit for her work, or step into the light—even if it means being destroyed by her own legacy.
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On Friday 15th July 2022 Cambridge Library celebrates its 20th birthday!
What do you love about Cambridge Library? Do you have any memories you'd like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Entries will be added to our memory book. Jot something down on your next visit to the Library or head to our website and download a copy.
Be sure to drop by and join the celebrations.
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NAIDOC Week Storytime Session
Cambridge Library celebrated NAIDOC week with a number of events this year including a very special story time session with Honey Webb and Candice Smith of Kwarba Djookian dance group and Fabian Cox of Oz Island. The crew read 'The Eagle Inside' by Jack Manning Bancroft and Bronwyn Bancroft.
After the story telling component was complete, the trio provided an opportunity for children to learn the Noongar language. The session finished with some singing and dancing.
Other NAIDOC week events held at the Library included: a Yarning Circle with Elder Betty Garlett and a Virtual Whadjuck session where participants travelled back in time to experience the swan River before colonisation.
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