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Dear [subscriber-firstname]
Season’s greetings – from Management and staff at Mona Vale Library.
Although we are coming to the end of the year, there’s lots happening through December and well into January to keep you and your family entertained during the holiday season.
Christmas is coming and so is Santa. He will be visiting our last pre-school storytime for the year, and we are also presenting a Christmas movie and our very first Christmas pantomime, which due to popularity has been fully booked out. However don’t despair there’s still lots of other events you can book for.
Full details of these events are available below and on our website and look out for our brochures in the library.
Our Spotlight this month is on Clue Detective Puzzle Agency just in time for the Christmas break so you can join up and do lots of online puzzles in your free time.
We are once again offering our online Kids Summer Reading Club – so if you’re keen please register before 22 January 2016 Details are also on our website.
All at Mona Vale Library wish you the happiest of Christmases and an exciting New Year to come.
We have enjoyed bringing you the best reading, events and programs in 2015 and look forward to much more in 2016. |
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| Mona Vale Library Holiday Hours |
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To help you with your planning over the Christmas holiday break, our operating hours are outlined below:
Thursday 24 December closed
Friday 25 December closed
Saturday 26 December closed
Sunday 27 December closed
Monday 28 December closed
Tuesday 29 December open 10am-6pm
Wednesday 30 December open 10am-6pm
Thursday 31 December open 10am-2pm
Friday 1 January closed
Normal hours resume from Saturday 2 January. |
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Thursday 17 December 6:15 - 8:30pm
Christmas family movie Elf
Join us in the Pelican Room at Mona Vale Library and get into the spirit of Christmas with a free special screening of Elf and festive refreshments.
Christmas themed dress-ups are encouraged!
Bookings: essential 9970 1600 or library@pittwater.nsw.gov.au
Drop-in holiday fun
Check our website www.pittwater.nsw.gov.au/library for the free fun for kids drop-in sessions throughout January.
More holiday fun
For more holiday events check out School Holiday Fun at the Coastal Environment Centre:
http://www.pittwater.nsw.gov.au/ceckids
1300 000 CEC (232) |
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White Ribbon Day
Recently Relationships Australia hosted several ‘Craft for a Cause’ workshops where participants created stitched and crocheted flowers using donated white sheets.
These workshops brought together men and women who had either experienced domestic violence or who wanted to know more about how to support others. Come along to the library and view the display of their work.
Our Online Summer Reading Club starts now.
Read five books between now and 22 January 2016 and be in the running for a JB HiFi gift voucher.
Sign up by clicking on the link on the website
- Record the books you read on your personalised Reading List
- Add book reviews and read book reviews added by other readers
http://www.myreadinglist.com.au/readers.php?p_id=19
Puzzle fun at the Library
Clue Detective Puzzle Agency
Do you enjoy puzzles? Then why not try to solve the Clue Detective range of FREE original puzzles, such as crosswords, Sudoku and codewords online, or download and print out the puzzles to do on paper. Click on the link on our website and get started. Use the following details to login: Username: PittwaterLib1, Password: Pittwater Library.
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Alan Cumming - Not my father’s son: a memoir
Although I work in the library – I am still often stuck on what to read next.
Thanks to a lovely borrower, Lisa, I ended up with Alan Cumming’s book on my bedside table.
This book totally blew me away.
This is a story of personal challenge and self-discovery and the ultimate struggle to understand and reconcile relationships and family history.
Love this book and Alan Cumming even more.
Note: this book is also available in eAudio through our OneClick Digital platform. The author’s own narration adds to the depth and emotion of this story and brings it to life with a mix of sadness and humour.
Mary, Community Development Librarian. |
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2015 has been a particularly busy year for Mona Vale Library: Here’s a snapshot of the highlights:
- We installed a new database and operating system – WorldShare Management Systems
- We added over 5000 new books and AV items, 200 new eAudiobooks and over 2,000 new eBooks
- Our programs included author talks, literary lunches, pop-up events, HSC Lock-ins, children’s storytime and holiday events, events for Heritage Festival, History Week and Mental Health Month, and a library open day. Over 5,000 people attended our events throughout the year.
- We launched Ten Minutes a Day kits for early readers
- We added new online content and eResources
- We hosted Interactive Baby Play facilitated by Tammie West from Playgroups NSW
- We continued to deliver the monthly Lego Clubs.
- We participated in International Games Day in November with giant games like Connect4 and Jenga and other favourite board games.
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If you are looking for a good book to read over the Summer break check out the December issue of Good Reading magazine. Just click on this link, then click on Good Reading. http://www.pittwater.nsw.gov.au/library/Book_News__and__Reviw
Aussie favourite Fiona McIntosh is back with The Perfumer's Secret and an article she wrote about her research trips to France, during which she crafted her own fragrance. Professor Robert Power, an award-winning short story writer and acclaimed novelist, tells us about his latest semi-fantastical offering Tidetown and his work in Zimbabwe that inspired his characters. Peter Garrett, takes us on a tour of his bookshelf, and you can also dip into a conversation with one of the world's most fascinating scientists. Leaf through the reviews and Summer Reading Guide to find your next book to enjoy in the sunshine, and for dog lovers,there are two canine-themed articles featuring posing French bulldogs and a labrador detective called Monty.
And if you have a bit of spare time coming up you might want to try our Runaround 7-day reads. Runarounds are those ‘hot’ tiltes which are currently high in demand and selling really well in the Bookshops. We only lend them for 7 days so they can be in and out of the library quickly allowing for fast circulation.
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Technology Drop-in Sessions
Our last session was on Tuesday 8 December 2015. Our students will be back in Term 1 2016.
Please contact Mary on 9970 1606 for further information.
Storytime
Our last pre-school storytime is on Thursday 17 December. Storytime will resume in the first term of 2016. The storytime sessions run on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 10 to 11am.
Our next edition of the Library Vibe will be published in early February. Our 2016 calendar of events will commence in February, with Library Lovers Day on 15 February and much more. |
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