Sutherland Shire Libraries News

Our creative staff have been busy! Check out our Flickr photos to see the beautiful Book Week displays at our libraries. The theme for Book Week this year is 'One World, Many Stories.'

Many local students have visited our libraries or we have been to their schools. By the end of our celebrations around 8000 local kids will have joined us.

The major focus of Book Week is the announcement of the winners of the Children's Book of the Year Awards - Find out which books won...

The Wrap With Love 2010 Knit In was held early this year.

Shire knitters and groups had been busy knitting squares and making them into wraps to be sent to people around the world who are affected by the cold.

Thanks to those knitters who joined us at their library and to those who brought in completed squares and wraps. A special thank you to Jannali/Como Rotary Club who brought in the very colourful wraps shown here in the photos.

Get a head start on 2011 Wrap With Love......
If you love to knit or crochet or you would like to learn Cronulla, Engadine and Sylvania Libraries hold regular knitting groups. Knitters or would be knitters of all levels of abiltiy and ages are invited to meet in a relaxed, welcoming and social setting.

Cronulla Library
2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month
1.30pm - 3.00pm

Engadine Library
1st Tuesday of each month
10.30am-12noon

Sylvania Library
2nd Friday of each month
10.30am-12noon

Do you love to knit or have you ever wanted to learn?
Do you want to help to keep this wonderful skill alive and have a friendly chat over a cuppa.

Then head to Sylvania Library. Knitters and would-be-knitters are welcome to come and spend some time working on their projects in a relaxing, social setting.

"Researchers at Harvard Medical School Mind and Body Institute have found that the average person's heart rate drops 11 beats per minute while knitting and that you get a sense of calm similar to that associated with meditation".

The group will be meeting on the 2nd Friday of each month beginning Friday 9th April
10.30am - 12 noon

Sylvania Library
Southgate Shooping Centre
9522 7544

Please be advised that as of 1st July 2009 the Hold Fee will be $1.00 in accordance with Sutherland Shire Council's Schedule of Fees and Charges for the year ending June 2010.

The fee applied to holds collected from 1st July 2009

This survey has now finished. Thank you to everyone who participated.

Sutherland Shire Libraries in conjunction with a UTS student project is conducting a survey of Gen Y library customers.

Are you between the ages of 10 and 26?
Fill in a GenY @ the Library survey and help us to better understand your library needs.

Gen Y is a unique generation in that they have developed and grown up in a period of rapid technological changes.

The objective of the GenY @ the Library project is to gain a better understanding of the Gen Y library customers in relation to their attitudes towards the library and expectations regarding the information products and services that the library holds now and in the future.

The survey will be conducted at all branches of Sutherland Shire Libraries between 8th and 28th September 2008.

Sutherland Libraries are moving to a system of tracking materials called Radio Frequency Identification. RFID is a fast, efficient way to track, locate and manage library resources. RFID technology is used in many places such as tracking baggage at airports and postal deliveries.

What will RFID mean to you?

With RFID you can:

• check out multiple items simultaneously.
• avoid queues if you do not require staff attention.
• allow library staff to be redirected to more customer focused services such reference assistance and special events.

Your library will soon be closed for a few days to allow for changes to be made in preparation for the switch to RFID. During the closures there will be some redesign of the circulation desks and entries to the library and new self checkers will be installed.

Closure dates

• Caringbah Library
  Closed Saturday 11th October and re-open Tuesday 21st October
• Engadine Library
  Closed Tuesday 21st October and re-open Monday 27th October
• Sylvania Library
  Closed Tuesday 28th October and re-open Monday 3rd November
• Miranda Library
  Closed Tuesday 4th November and re-open Monday 10th November
• Menai LibraryClosed Tuesday 11th November and re-open Monday 17th November
• Sutherland Library
  Closed Saturday 15th November and re-open Thursday 27th November

We apologise for any inconvenience during closures and hope you understand that these changes are being made in the interest of improving our services to you.

With the school holidays coming to an end it's time to get your books read for the Summer Reading Club. Bring your reading logs in to the Library by Sunday February 3 to get your entries in to the major prize draw. Thanks to our major sponsor, The Tradies, there are some great prizes to be won this year so don't delay!

Major Prizes
1 to 4 years - a suitcase filled withs books, games and DVDs
5 to 8 years - a portable DVD player
9 to 12 years - a digital camera

The major prize for the Teen Reading Program (13-16 years) is also a digital camera.

Once the Summer Reading Club is over and school goes back we go back to our regular Storytime program. In 2008, however, our very popular Rhymetime program is bigger and better. We are introducing Rhymetime to Sylvania Library on Mondays at 2pm. We are also adding an extra Rhymetime session at Sutherland Library on Tuesdays at 11am.

There are a number of activities for kids happening in the libraries as we approach Christmas. We have colouring in, craft, storytimes and films. Find all the details in our Events Calendar.

Last May, as part of our Library Week celebrations, we invited you to unwrap selected new books. Well, now that Spring has arrived, we thought that it would be a good time to do it all again!

Between Monday 17th September and Saturday the 22nd of September our branch libraries will be unwrapping a selection of new books - new authors, new recipes, new adventures!

• Miranda Library
  Monday 17th September @ 10am
• Caringbah Library
  Wednesday 19th September @ 10am
• Cronulla Library
  Thursday 20th September @ 10am
• Menai Library
  Thursday 20th September @ 6pm
• Engadine Library
  Friday 21st September @ 10am
• Sylvania Library
  Saturday 22nd September @ 10:30am

Celebrate the beginning of the warmer weather by coming in and grabbing a brand new book for yourself. Who knows what we will have? We may even have a book by one of your favourite authors! See you there!