November 2009 - Edition 32
Storytime on the Move
During November Orange City Library is participating in the Orange Blossoms Garden Festival by hosting pre-schoolers Storytime next to the Fernery in Cook Park (Clinton Street side) rather than the normal Library location. Come at 11am on the following days:
• Tuesday 10 November
• Wednesday 11 November
• Thursday 12 November
• Tuesday 17 November
• Wednesday 18 November
• Thursday 19 November
If the weather’s bad Storytime will be held in the Library.
Baby Rhyme and Read Classes for parents and carers to learn rhymes and songs to help prepare children be ready to learn to read, resume at Orange City Library on Monday 16 November from 2.15pm. Interested parents and carers are most welcome to bring their babies aged 0 – 1.
Lost in Black Sheep Family History Seminar 7 and 8 November
There’s still an opportunity for you to register for The Lost in Black Sheep Family History Weekend to be held at the Orange Civic Theatre Forum, Byng Street, Orange on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November 2009. If your ancestors were 'black sheep' - divorced, destitute, or spent time in gaol or an asylum, they probably left behind a wonderful paper trail. Come along for the two day seminar featuring experts on State Records NSW, Divorce Records, Bankruptcy Records, Local Studies and Family History, Corrective Services, Greater Western Area Health Service and take a guided walking tour of Bloomfield Hospital and learn more about its records. Registration: $85 Society of Australian Genealogists (SAG) members and Orange Family History Group Members; and $95 non-members includes two-day seminar, lunches and morning and afternoon teas. For more details and to book your place, please call the SAG on 02 9247 3953 or visit www.sag.org.au
What’s New?
Want to know what resources have been added to the Library’s catalogue? Use this Tip to find out what new.
From the Navigation list, choose New Resources and click on New Titles. You may reorganise the list to make it more manageable by clicking on the Refine Set button and selecting one or more of the options. Refining by Location (branch) and Collection is a good start.
While you’re there try out the other links under New Resources.
Classics Book Club
New members are welcome to join the Classics Book Club at any time. Meetings are held monthly at:
• Blayney Library on Tuesday 17 November from 11am - 12 noon to talk about Jude the Obscure and Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.
• Orange Daytime Group on Thursday 19 November from 12.30pm - 1.30pm to discuss the author of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
• Orange Evening Group on Thursday 19 November from 5.30pm - 7pm to discuss the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
• Cowra Library on Tuesday 24 November from 12.30pm - 1.30pm to talk about The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
Pageturners 5.30 – 7pm Wednesday 11 November
Pageturners Book Discussion Group meets at Orange City Library on the second Wednesday of the month. This will be the last Pageturners meeting for the year. They will be discussing World Literature – books written by authors from other countries such as Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Khaled Hosseini and of course Australian writers that are also on the world stage. We’ve asked each group member to bring along a book to swap with other members. We will be disguising the books in a brown paper bag so it will be a surprise gift – an idea you might like to borrow for your own book club.
Palliative Care Awareness Evening
Guest speaker/author Dr Frank Brennan - a Sydney physician will relate hopeful and compassionate stories from his writings which are based on caring for sick and terminally ill people. Frank worked for the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern, as a paediatrician in South Africa, and for the Sacred Heart Hospice before specialising in palliative care.
Stories from Palliative Care will be held on Wednesday 25 November at Orange City Library between 6pm and 8pm.
Writers’ Drop in Day
Writers are most welcome to drop in the Central West Writers’ Centre, upstairs Orange City Library on Friday 27 November from 2.30pm – 4.30pm. Meet other writers, talk about reading and writing and try a take-home writing exercise. All welcome.