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Centenary of Victorian Women's Suffrage 1908-2008
Come along and help celebrate the Centenary of Victorian women gaining the right to vote by joining us for afternoon tea at the St. Kilda Library.
The celebration will feature a performance by Wilma Farrow as famous suffragist Vida Goldstein, exploring Vida's role in securing the vote for Victorian women, and enjoy the expertise and knowledge of historian Dr. Rosemay Francis discussing the struggle. The event will provide each of us with an opportunity to reflect on and acknowledge the importance of the Suffrage Movement.
Attendees will be given an opportunity to be part of the 2008 Monster Petition Project by signing a calico banner, a representation of the original Women's Suffrage Petition, known as the Monster Petition, in acknowledgement of the struggle and achievement of women.
This project is a State Government initiative that aims to recreate the original petition by collecting 30,000 signatures from women all over Victoria. A number of banners have been distributed throughout Victoria and at the end of the year the banners will be sewn together and displayed at the finale of the celebrations at the Parliament Open Day on 16th November.
Historic photos of women's lives at work, in the home, and at play, will also be on display.
All are invited to come and celebrate this important legacy!
Where: St. Kilda Library
Date: Tuesday July 29th
Time: 3.30-5.00pm
This event is free, but bookings are essential - please RSVP the library on 92096655.
Light refreshments provided.
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Sneak Preview - Melbourne Writer's Festival
With the Melbourne Writer's Festival fast approaching (22-31 August at Federation Square), St. Kilda Library offers you a sneak preview!
Rosemary Cameron, Director of the Festival, will give the low-down on the authors, local and international, and some of the must see sessions in this years line up.
Where: St. Kilda Library
Date: Tuesday July 22nd
Time: 6.30pm
This event is free, but bookings are essential - please RSVP the library on 92096655.
Light refreshments provided.
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Looking for something to do on those cold, wintry winter school holidays?
Have a look at our Children's school holiday program, and book yourselves into one or all of the activities.
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Happy 35th Birthday St Kilda Library
If you weren't able to join the celebrations have a look at our St. Kilda Library 35th Birthday celebration Flickr set
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Borrow Playstation 2 games now!!
The Port Phillip Library Service now has a lending collection of Playstation 2 games.
You can borrow one game at a time, 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 Playstation games on reserve at a time.
Coming soon - soon you'll be able to borrow Wii games too!!!!
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(sub)cultured workshops for young people
The (sub)cultured program of creative workshops for young people rocks onward with yet another six months worth of workshops!
Next up its a Zine making workshop - Check out the (sub)cultured page for details on this workshop and all the others that are on their way.
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.
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Poetry Idol 08
The 2008 season of Poetry Idol continues on Tuesday, July 1 - from 6.30pm
Heats will take place at the St Kilda Library on the first Tuesday of every month up until August.
Heat winners will perform in the Poetry Idol Final at Federation Square as part of the Age Melbourne Writers' Festival.
$3000 worth of prizes up for grabs!
To register your place as a prospective idol, email Michael Crane on mfcrane2000@yahoo.com
To book a spot in the audience phone 92096655 - ADMISSION FREE
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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.
The next session will take place on Wednesday, May 7.
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.
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NEW!! 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
St. Kilda Library turns 35!
Check out the photos on the St. Kilda Library 35th Birthday celebration Flickr set
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Borrow a pedometer, get active!
The Out There & Active pedometer loan scheme supports and encourages older adults to increase their daily walking.
Adults in the 55+ age group can borrow a pedometer from their nearest library branch and use it to get going on a daily walking program. Along with the pedometer borrower's will receive a resource kit which includes instructions on using the pedometer, information and resources on healthy activity, and guides to a lot of great walking programs available within the City of Port Phillip.
For more information on borrowing a pedometer call Port Phillip Library Service on 92096655
For more information on getting out there and into healthy activity for older people, visit the City of Port Phillip's Integrated health promotion page and the Victorian Government's Go for your life for older adults page.
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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.
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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.
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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 a pop with all proceeds going to the St Kilda Youth Service.
The CD is available at all branches of the library service.
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More information
Use eServices to ask us a question, request information or give us feedback online. If you prefer call ASSIST on (03) 9209 6777 or TTy (03) 9209 6713 and ask for Port Phillip Library Service.
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