NYR Newsletter, October 2012
October, 2012
What's Happening
The October theme for National Year of Reading is explore. As suggested, explore new ways of reading, new genres and new formats.
Life after Harry Potter
"The Casual vacancy" by J.K.Rowling is being released on Thursday, 27th September. To find out more about Life after Harry Potter, watch watch the only interview granted with an Australian journalist (Jennifer Byrne, of course). Its on ABC1, Thursday, 27th September at 8.00pm.
But what about Harry Potter? Certainly not passé, judging by the turn out for the HP trivia night last Thursday night at Sutherland Library. Are you a Harry Potter fan? If so, just how much of a Harry Potter fan are you? Diehard fans are setting their alarm clocks (or just staying up really late) ensuring they are awake at 4am to catch J.K Rowling's first official chat with fans since 2007! A live global webcast is being held, with J.K Rowling participating in the discussion from her hometown of Edinburgh, Scotland, at midday GMT. She will be taking live questions from her fans about Harry Potter's magical wizarding world. The discussion will take place at www.scholastic.com/hpreadingclub, Friday October 11th at 4am (AEST). Make sure you don't accidently sleep through it (and don't forget to book mark the site)!
Looking for something different to read?
Explore your completely free copy of Issue 8 of Inside History magazine, courtesy of The National Year of Reading, 2012, love2read website.
Love2readTV
It started with the National Year of Reading love2read website, followed by twitter and a facebook page ....Now there is love2readTV.
You can watch a Librarians Special Episode Promo video, featuring Kiama (NSW) and Albany(WA) library staff, or watch various friends of the National Year of Reading tell us why they love to read.
Twitter reading group
Join in the twitter discussion on Tuesday, 24 September, (the last Tuesday of the month), at 8pm, to explore what you have been reading. Use hashtag #NYR12 as you explore your reading.
Display Ideas
1st October: World Vegetarian Day
6th October: Mad Hatter Day- the second of these for 2012! Books and films about Alice in Wonderland.
26th October: Frankenstein Day.
31st October: Halloween. Zombies. Scary books. Horror. Ghosts. You know, the usual.
What's on
Susan Gervay Author talk
Sutherland Library
Tuesday, 4 October, 10.30am-11.30am.
Free event
Sutherland Library
Tuesday, 9 October, 10.30am-11.30am
Free event
Wine Tasting evening
Sutherland Library
Tuesday, 9 October, 6.30pm-8.30pm.
Cost $10.00 per person
Book Terrarium workshops
Sutherland Library
Tuesday, 16 October 2012 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Cost: $5.00
Cronulla LibraryTuesday, 23 October 2012 at 6:00 pm -8:00 pm
Cost $5.00
Engadine Library
Tuesday, 30 October 2012 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Cost $5.00
Dianne Blacklock Beginners Writing workshop
Sutherland Library
Tuesday, 25 October, 10.30am-12.00pm.
$10.00 per person
Heaps of school holiday activities!! The theme for the September/October holidays is "Lets get loud", it's a School Holiday Program filled with films, drawing workshops, music and more.
Heaps of school holiday activities!! The theme for the September/October holidays is "Lets get loud", it's a School Holiday Program filled with films, drawing workshops, music and more.
Happy Birthday to Jacinta and Anne M.
Look out for your 'What are you reading?" email soon!
-Angela Carter
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Could the 3D Printer save the public library service?
An interesting article by Ian Anstice on Public Library News about the possibilities and probabilities of maker spaces and 3D printers in public libraries. Here's a bit."The theory goes that public libraries will provide great spaces for 3D printers. Libraries have always provided material for the benefit of the community for those who cannot afford it and 3D printing, on the face of it, seems to fit right in...
...The other selling point for libraries in this is that we have friendly staff who will be able to help people in learning how to use them. That may be so in some branches of course. However, I’m willing to bet that right now the majority of staff working in libraries have not even heard of 3D printers. A lot of library staff frankly need to be more highly trained in Word, let alone the next disruptive technology. "
Read the whole article; there's a real twist in the tail!
Jasper Fforde and Thursday Next
I've just enjoyed another Jasper Fforde book starring Thursday Next. The woman who died a lot. These books are just weird entertainment. If you haven't read any, try the first one, The Eyre Affair. Interlibrary loans may be able to find a copy. There is a lot of literature and libraries and librarians in these tomes of time travel, spies, goodies and baddies.
eg "A lean woman with a face pinched by hard workouts walked forward to greet me. She was in her mid-fifties, did not look well disposed to joy in any form, and was wearing the standard SLS combat fatigues, replete with the distinctive camouflage pattern of book spines for blending into library spaces. When I was at SpecOps she was at the Search/Destroy division of SO-5, and you didn't get to join them until you'd killed eight people with a gun, four with a blunt instrument or two with your hands - it was a sliding-scale sort of thin. Wexler's appointment to the SLS was enough to precipitate a 32 per cent drop in late returns." Not that any of us fit such characterisations, especially today when an outbreak of florals have been the response to Monique's request to celebrate Spring.
And next time the legals go out remember this "Do I have to talk to insane people?"
" You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory."
Di
eg "A lean woman with a face pinched by hard workouts walked forward to greet me. She was in her mid-fifties, did not look well disposed to joy in any form, and was wearing the standard SLS combat fatigues, replete with the distinctive camouflage pattern of book spines for blending into library spaces. When I was at SpecOps she was at the Search/Destroy division of SO-5, and you didn't get to join them until you'd killed eight people with a gun, four with a blunt instrument or two with your hands - it was a sliding-scale sort of thin. Wexler's appointment to the SLS was enough to precipitate a 32 per cent drop in late returns." Not that any of us fit such characterisations, especially today when an outbreak of florals have been the response to Monique's request to celebrate Spring.
And next time the legals go out remember this "Do I have to talk to insane people?"
" You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory."
Di
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