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Library News
At a glance:
At a glance:
- 24-hour automated renewals
- Recharge Scheme
- Big Book Sale
- Write your own reviews
- Russian storytime for children
- Homework Help
- Make your own pc and facilities bookings
- Borrow console games
- (sub)cultured Workshops for young people
- Hands on Workshops for adults
- Book club for kids
- Flickr Photo Galleries
- Wheelbarrow Library
- Showerhead Exchange
24-hour automated phone renewals and library information available now!
Call 9209-6655 any time for renewals & information – just have your library card handy! To speak to a staff member, call during opening hours and dial 0.
Well, there's no need to worry about getting around anymore! The Port Phillip Library Service is proud to announce it is now a member of the RECHARGE scheme, a state funded initiative encouraging businesses and councils to provide a power point so you can recharge the battery on your electric wheelchair or scooter.
Just look for this logo, placed above or near power points, so you can quickly ascertain which power point has been designated for you to use at our major branches - St Kilda, Albert Park and Port Melbourne.
Now you can relax, recharge your batteries, and utliise the library's services 'while-u-wait'?!
Want to know more? You can view more information about the scheme, find RECHARGE locations, or get answers to frequently asked questions such as "what distance can I travel with one full battery charge?" on the RECHARGE scheme website -
http://www.rechargescheme.org.au/webpage/list-home.chtml.
Another Big Book Sale!!!!!
Our next book sale will be on Thursday, December 3 from 12pm-6pm in the community room at the St Kilda Library. As with the last two sales this will be run by volunteers from the friends of Suai and will raise money for the new Suai library.
Remember those empty shelves? Here's a chance for us all to make a difference and hopefully fill those shelves for the people of Suai!
So, why not come along and support this worthy cause while grabbing yourself a few bargains?!
For more information contact the library on 9209-6655 or email library@portphillip.vic.gov.au.
Write your own Reviews!
Want to write about something you've borrowed and share your experience - good or bad - with other library users? Just find the item on our catalogue and click the link to "Add your review"- you need to log in to post reviews so have your library card handy!
Russian Storytime for Children
You can find more information on the Children's storytimes page here.
Homework help when you need it
was launched at St Kilda Library on Tuesday, June 23 by City of Port Phillip Mayor Frank O'Connor to a captive audience of 105 students from St Kilda Primary School. An online interactive demonstration was enough to convince the students to log on next time they needed help with their homework.
What is yourtutor?
It's your free, instant, easy, study, homework, and assignment research service.
Want to know more?
Just go to yourtutor.com.au to view their tutorial, or log in using your Port Phillip Library card number.
Note: this service is only available between 4-8 pm Monday - Friday.
Even the prospect of doing their homework hasn't wiped the smiles from their faces. Back row: (left) Rudi Saniga (right) Isaac Van der Werf Front row: (left) Mia Amon (right) Holden Sayers
View photos of the launch on our yourtutor launch Flickr set
Make Your Own Internet and Facility Bookings Online!
Bookings can be made using the following website: http://bookings.portphillip.vic.gov.au/NetLoan
Remember to ask a staff member to set up a password on your library record if you don't already have one. You'll need it to place your bookings!
Borrow Console Games
The Port Phillip Library Service now has a lending collection of Playstation 2, Playstation 3 and Wii games!You can borrow one game at a time (i.e. one PS2 game, OR one PS3 game OR one Wii game), for 2 weeks, no renewals.
The collection is housed at the St Kilda Library but you can reserve titles and pick them up from any branch.
Each borrower is entitled to have four console games on reserve at a time.
Sadly (sub)cultured has finished for 2009 but will be back in 2010 so stay tuned for more wonderful workshops in the new year.
Want to see what's been happening in 2009? Why not have a look at the (sub)cultured page!
If you have a suggestion or idea for a future workshop please email subcultured@portphillip.vic.gov.au
A note for the not-so-young: the (sub)cultured program is specifically targeted at folks aged 12-19. If you're not quite as youthful as you used to be but still keen to get cultured, all is not lost! If there is sufficient interest in workshops we may run them for all ages later in the year. Simply give us your details and we'll let you know when.
Hands On workshops for Adults
Over the next few months the Library will be hosting a series of Hands On workshops. There will be a charge of $10 per head to attend these workshops (with payment required at time of booking!).
You can find what's coming up on the Library events page.
Book Club for Kids
The Lightning Readers!!
The Lightning Readers are a book club made up of 7-12 year old book lovers.
The Lightning Readers meet in the children's area at St Kilda Library on the first Wednesday of each month, from 4.15-5.30pm.
Anyone from 7-12 years is welcome to join the club!
For more information contact Linda Todd on 92096655, or Diana Panas on 92096622
or see the Children's Book Club page.
Port Phillip Library Service's Photo Galleries
Armed & Dangerous
Armed & Dangerous was the youth arm of the 2007 St Kilda Film Festival. Last year the program included 11 great short films made by young people from various schools, TAFE colleges and the St Kilda Youth Service. Port Phillip Library Service recently hosted an exhibition of the films and artefacts from the making of the films.
Photos of this exhibition can be viewed on the Armed & dangerous flickr set
Hugo Bags
Port Phillip Library Service sells library bags for $2 a pop. These bags feature a beautiful stencil image of Hugo. Hugo is a lovely fuzzy grey cat who visits the St Kilda library everyday for milk and cuddles.
To see a bunch of pictures of hugo visit the Hugo flickr set
Check out the photos on the St. Kilda Library 35th Birthday celebration Flickr set
Wheelbarrow Library
Photos of the Wheelbarrow Library can be seen on the Wheelbarrow Library flickr set
Wheelbarrow Library Wins Award and International Acclaim
Our Beach wheelbarrow library service recently won a Customer Service Innovation Award courtesy of Civica - the people who provide us with Spydus, our library management software system. Hurrah for orange barrows!
The same service also gained a write up in a prestigious U.S library journal and subsequently we received messages of acclaim from librarians throughout the United States. One librarian wrote: "I felt absolutely compelled to write and congratulate you on such a fabulous idea. Such flashes of brilliance should be acknowledged. I just wish we had a beach here in Chilicothe, Illinois, for me to 'borrow' your idea."
See the wheelbarrow library page for all the sun-baked and sandy details of our adventures.
Showerhead Exchange Available at the Library
To help raise awareness of water saving issues the City of Port Phillip, with support from South East Water, are offering Port Phillip residents a great opportunity - exchange your old inefficient showerhead, and get a new water saving one for free!
The Port Melbourne, Albert Park and St Kilda libraries are all acting as exchange points for the showerheads.
For all the details of the exchange program - who is eligible, what you need to do and where you can get your water saving showerhead - see the Showerhead Exchange Program page.
SSSSHH! The Library CD
It's not everyday a library service releases an album. Somewhere between shelving stacks of returned books, answering tricky reference queries and re-programming catalogues, the staff at Port Phillip Library Service have put together SSSSHH!, a thrillingly diverse compilation written, performed and presented by the musical prodigies among our library staff.
SSSSHH! sells for only $12 with all proceeds going to the St Kilda Youth Service.
The CD is available at all branches of the library service.
More Information
Contact your nearest library branch or give us feedback online by emailing library@portphillip.vic.gov.au. If you prefer call ASSIST on (03) 9209 6777 or TTy (03) 9209 6713 and ask for Port Phillip Library Service.
