Library Lovers News

S o u th e r n Do wn s Re g io n a l L i b ra ri e s

August 2015

Volume 4, Issue 3

The library staff are please to announce that there has been a recent upgrade to our
computer systems. You may have already noticed our new look online catalogue,
available at spydus.southerndowns.qld.gov.au. One of the new features is that there
are now galleries of featured items, as well as easy ways to refine your search. To
log in to the catalogue use the borrower number on your card, and your password,
which is the first four letters of your surname in capital letters. Once logged in you
are able to make reservations as well as renew your own items provided no one is
waiting to borrow them.
Dont forget you can also obtain access to all our digital collections through the
online catalogue. There are links down the right hand side of the page linking to all
our online courses, digital magazines, eBooks and downloadable audiobooks.

The stories we love best live in us forever J. K. Rowling

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What is on for children in our libraries?

The SDRC library service offers a range of activities for children.
Regular Storytime sessions are aimed at children from birth to 5
years, and are held each week in the Warwick and Stanthorpe
libraries. The Warwick session is at 10.30 on Thursday
mornings, and the Stanthorpe session is at 10.30 on Tuesday
mornings. A Storytime newsletter is also released monthly, with
activities, rhymes, colouring in pages and lists of newly
available titles.
Baby Rhymetime sessions are held on Thursday mornings in the Stanthorpe library.
These sessions are aimed at babies up to 18 months old. Come along with your baby
at 10.30 for lots of fun with rhymes and fingerplays.
Activities and treasure hunts are held in the Stanthorpe and Warwick libraries during
school holidays. The treasure hunts are usually very popular, which children searching for themed pictures throughout the library, and filling out an entry form to go
into a prize draw. Details of these are on our Facebook page, and also advertised in
branch. Most of the holiday activities are self guided, so children can come and take
part at an activity table at any time throughout the holidays, with bookings not
required.
A Kidstuff newsletter is released three times a year, usually just before each of the
school holidays. This is full of fun puzzles and activities.
National Simultaneous Storytime is an ALIA (Australian Libraries and Information
Association) initiative and is held as part of Library & Information Week each year in
May. The NSS book for 2015 was The Brothers Quibble
There are of course all your traditional library resources such as books, magazines,
and DVDs available for loan. Your child can also borrow jigsaws to take home and
complete.

Use books as bees use flowers - a nineteenth century epigram

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Childrens Book Week 2015

The theme for this years Book Week is Books light up our world.
Book week is an initiative of The Childrens Book Council of Australia and runs from Saturday the 22nd of August through to Friday the 28th of August.
The CBCA Book of the Year Awards comprise six categories...

Picture Books -suitable for an audience from birth to 18

years. Some books may be for more mature readers.

Early Childhood -suitable for an audience in the pre-reading to early reading

stage.

Younger Readers -suitable for a younger audience able to read independently

Older Readers -suitable for more mature readers able to cope with challenging
themes and controversial characters

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books -suitable for an audience from birth to
18 years. Some may be for more mature readers.

Crichton Award for new Australian illustrators

More information on Book Week as well as the short lists for the awards can be
found on the The Childrens Book Council of Australias website:
http://cbca.org.au/bookweek.htm

Author in the spotlight: Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz is an American author who started writing in university. He has written under a number of pen names during his career including Brian Coffey, David Axton, Deanna Dwyer and
Leigh Nichols. He mostly writes suspense thrillers, however has
crossed over into mystery, horror and fantasy, as well as writing
screen plays and poetry. He has sold over 450 million copies and
has been published in 38 languages.
Koontzs breakthrough novel is acknowledged to be Whispers
published in 1980, with his first bestseller being Demon Seed which sold more than
two million copies in a year. He is also well known for his Odd Thomas series. Saint
Odd is the last in the series and was published earlier this year. Dean has announced
that his next novel will be Ashley Ball due to be published in January 2016.
Dean lives in Southern California along with his wife Gerda and their golden retriever
Anna.

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New Books

The Book of Life by

Deborah Harkness

A Fine Summers Day by

Charles Todd

Match Pointe by
Indigo Bloome

Border Angels by
Anthony Quinn

Gideon by
Alex Gordon

A Memory of Violets by
Hazel Gaynor

14th Deadly Sin by

James Patterson &
Maxine Paetro

Cash Cow by
Nina McGrath

The Green Road by

Anne Enright

The Grown Ups by

Robin Antalek

The Space Between Us by

Megan Hart

The Sweetest Thing by

Jill Shalvis

You can borrow a book, but you get to keep the ideas.
- National Reading Campaign, Canada

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Play the Anagram Game Can you unscrambled these anagrams to reveal the title of a well known novel?

Betrays that egg

Verbal nerd wow

Alarm man if

Ran hooted

Charmed mild

New DVDs

Pete n Tillie

Folks!

Scenic journeys
on British and
Irish waterways

In search of
Ame r ica /T he
Yin and the
Yang of Mr.
Go

Dinnerladies

Offspring:
season 5

Sweet home
Alabama

Murder
Investigation
Team: Season 1

Answers to the Anagram Game Betray That Egg

The Great Gatsby

Verbal Nerd Won

Brave New World

Alarm Man If

Animal Farm

Ran Hooted

On the Road

Charmed Mild

Middlemarch

Southern Downs Regional Libraries

Allora Library

4666 3742

Mobile Library

4661 0342

Stanthorpe Library

4681 2141

Warwick Library

4661 0342

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