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Gilgandra Shire Library

Locality: Gilgandra, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6817 8877

Address: Warren Rd 2827 Gilgandra, NSW, Australia

Website: www.gilgandra.nsw.gov.au/index.cfm?objectid=35E807E3-1708-51EB-A680AF8E4166D320

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25.01.2022 GILGANDRA LEGO CLUB- a new building challenge every week! The new LEGO challenge is out- to create a work of art using LEGO bricks! When your children have finished their artworks, take a photo of their work and head on over to Gilgandra Shire Library LEGO Club- Designs From Your Mind to join the group (you'll need your library card number) and upload your photo. The winner will be selected next Tuesday, and will receive a LEGO minifigure in the mail. Happy building! (and, no- it doesn't have to be as big and beautiful as the artwork in the photo. Whatever your child creates will be just fine!) Image Credit: "'Stepping In?' (10/12)" by Tony Fischer Photography is licensed under CC BY 2.0

25.01.2022 Happy is the new book by Turia Pitt. Turia sets out on a quest to discover if happy is actually an attainable goal, and not just a ridiculous aspiration. Along the way, she introduces us to some of her favourite people (including journalist Leigh Sales, happiness researcher Meik Wiking, money expert Scott Pape, entrepreneur Zoe Foster-Blake and pro-surfer Mick Fanning) to explore how everything from money to our relationships has an impact on how happy we can be. It’s all packed up with easy-to-implement tips and strategies, hilarious insights into her own life and relationships, and seasoned by her trademark wit and gutsy intelligence.

25.01.2022 Happy Spring, everyone!

24.01.2022 If you are wanting to increase your digital skills, Curtin University has a great, free 23 Things course, in which you can do as little or as much as you like. There are online sessions you can attend, or notes you can work through at your own pace after the session. Topics so far include video editing, video compression, and digital creativity using GIMP. Thanks to Kristina for telling us about this great course! https://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/23things/

24.01.2022 Exciting news! Code Club returns, face-to-face at the Library this Thursday 19 November! Bookings are essential, as places are strictly limited. Please phone 6817 8877 or email [email protected]. To remain COVID-Safe we will have some new guidelines to follow to keep us all healthy: All hands need to be sanitised at the door and coders will need to check in at the front desk with a phone number for tracing purposes. Masks are available if coders want to wear the...m. We will be working on laptops with appropriate distancing. Coders may only touch their own equipment. Because we can only have a limited amount of people actually in the library at one time please do not arrive too early. We are looking forward very much to seeing our coders again! Online code club was fun, but nothing can beat working together to solve problems! #getkidscoding

24.01.2022 Lovely new books for children about living sustainably.

24.01.2022 DVDs Did you know the Library has a collection of 795 DVDs for adults and children available for loan? The Library is open Monday to Friday, 10.30-12:30 and 1.30-4.30.

23.01.2022 LEGO CLUB NEWS This week our work experience student is designing our DFYM challenge! She loves her dog, Digby and wanted to make everyone's furry best friends part of our LEGO challenge. So this week, children are challenged to choose a pet and create it using LEGO bricks. Then parents take a photo of their build and head on over to Gilgandra Shire Library LEGO Club- Designs From Your Mind to join and upload the photo as a comment. Each week we mail out a LEGO minifigure to a lucky winner. Happy Building! Image Credit: "Fox, Cat, Dog" by Bangooh is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

23.01.2022 LEGO CLUB NEWS This week our builders have been challenged to build a parade float using LEGO bricks! Take a photo of your build then head over to join in the fun at Gilgandra Shire Library LEGO Club- Designs From Your Mind. Post your photo in the comments section. Each week a winner receives a LEGO minifigure in the post. A new challenge goes up every Tuesday afternoon. Happy building! Image Credit: "Lego Float" by Jason Verwey is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0LE

22.01.2022 LEGO CLUB AND CODE CLUB NEWS This week our online LEGO builders are being challenged to design a treehouse! Today is the last day of this challenge, so head on over to Gilgandra Shire Library LEGO Club- Designs From Your Mind and post a photo of your design. A new challenge is posted every Tuesday afternoon, and each week a winner receives a LEGO minifigure in the mail! And this week our Code Club challenge is to kick a goal! Choose a sport and code a program to go alo...ng with it. Perhaps you are playing soccer and the objective is to defend a goal. Or maybe you have to code shooting a basketball shot or hit a tennis ball. Whatever you choose, have fun with coding your sport! A new challenge is posted each Thursday at Gilgandra Shire Library Code Club, so check it out. Image credit: "LEGO tree house" by artnoose is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

21.01.2022 NEW BOOKS Killing Time: short stories from the long road home is the new book by Jimmy Barnes. Jimmy says of this book My first two books sought to unpack a troubled childhood and make sense of my crazy rock ‘n’ roll life. The stories in this collection are about what happened in between- in the downtime before gigs or during recording sessions, while travelling in remote places, hanging out with other musicians, or just quietly going about day-to-day life. Little thi...ngs that took place along the way, on the long road home. "The School of Life: an emotional education is the new book by the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy; Alain De Botton. This is a book about everything you were never taught at school. It’s about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. Enid by Robert Wainwright is the story of a bewitching Australian socialite who fascinated the world in the early twentieth century. Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. The girl from Strathfield in Sydney stopped traffic in Manhattan, silenced gamblers in Monte Carlos and walked a pet cheetah in a diamond collar through Hyde Park in London! Happy reading! See more

21.01.2022 New mysteries and thrillers....

20.01.2022 MIND FOOD Some of the new food for enquiring minds at the Library. If there is something you’d like to read about, please ask us. We love finding the right books and information for people- it Is our favourite thing to do. It makes us really happy! #askalibrarian

20.01.2022 CODE CLUB NEWS Over at our online Code Club, our next Scratch project is called "Getting cereal about coding!". It uses a combine harvester sprite to harvest the wheat, which clones in random positions on the screen. You will use both mouse and keyboard to control the harvester. To find out more, head over to Gilgandra Shire Library Code Club. Happy Coding! Image Credit: "Harvest" by Ian Britton is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

20.01.2022 A week ago we had the most wonderful 3D printing workshops with Sydney artist Andrew Christie. The young people loved it and gave some great feedback. My personal favourites were: Great food, great resources, great teacher. 5 stars and Great workshop. Come back soon,. Thank you Andrew Christie and thank you Gilgandra Youth Services for the help and the amazing afternoon tea ! The photo is of a 3D scan of one of the extra yummy chocolate cakes, taken using the phone app Qlone...

19.01.2022 CODE CLUB NEWS The new Code Club challenge launched yesterday- Create a quiz in Scratch! It's time to challenge your family and friends! Head on over to join Gilgandra Shire Library Code Club for information on how to get started, and then take a photo or video of your completed program and upload it to show us all your work! Happy Coding! Image Credit: "Exam" by albertogp123 is licensed under CC BY 2.0

19.01.2022 The Library is one of the Council Facilities which will be closed tomorrow, Friday, 2 October, and Monday, 5 October. The Library re-opens on Tuesday, 6 October at 10.30am.

19.01.2022 Some new books about bullying, for children and adults

19.01.2022 New books- Courage and Hope Rising Heart is the story of Aminata Conteh-Biger. In 1999, Sierra Leone was in the midst of a brutal civil war where mindless violence was an everyday weapon. This was where rebel soldiers snatched the young Aminata Conteh-Biger from her father’s arms, then held her captive for months. After she was released, the UNHCR recognised that her captors still posed a serious threat to her safety. So, still in her teens, she was put on a plane and ...flown to Australia to start afresh as a refugee in a land she knew nothing about. "Sam Bloom: Heartache and Birdsong" by Samantha Bloom, Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive, is the follow up to "Penguin Bloom". In Sam Bloom, Sam tells her own story for the first time - how a shy but determined Australian girl became a nurse and travelled across Africa. How she fell in love with a like-minded free spirit, raised three boys and built a life together on Sydney's Northern Beaches. And then, in a single horrific moment, how everything changed. "A particular woman" is the story of Ashley Dawson-Damer. Embracing the excitement and turbulence of sixties Sydney, Ashley is set to make her mark amid uni classes filled with ambitious young males. She imagines her future with a successful career, husband, and a house full of children. But life is never quite that easy.

18.01.2022 NEW BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE The Glimme by Emily Rodda was recently awarded Honour Book for Younger Readers at the CBCA awards. This is what the judges had to say about The Glimme. Fantasy at its finest is found in this gripping read, where the spooky village of Wichaunt and The Glimme, a land of dragons beyond the veil are vividly brought to life. The Little Wave by Pip Harry won Book of The Year for Younger Readers at the CBCA awards. When a Manly school se...ts out to bring a country class to the city for a beach visit, three different kids find each other and themselves. Catch a falling star by Meg McKinlay is about loss and grief, dealing with change and fighting to hold on to what you can, while letting go of what you can’t. The dog runner by Bren MacDibble was the winner of the 2019 Aurealis Award for Best Children’s Fiction. Ella and her brother Emery are alone in a city that’s starving to death. If they are going to survive, they must get away, upcountry, to find Emery’s mum.

17.01.2022 New audiobooks at the Library! When you read a book, the story definitely happens inside your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes. Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

16.01.2022 LEGO CLUB NEWS This week our builders are trying a new, artistic challenge. Knolling is the process of arranging related objects in parallel or 90-degree angles as a method of organization or decoration. The challenge this week is to lay out your LEGO bricks to create artwork. When your children have finished their creations, take a photo and head on over to Gilgandra Shire Library LEGO Club- Designs From Your Mind to join the fun. Each week we post out a LEGO minifigu...re to the winner. Congratulations to last week's winner- on his spectacular bee on an agapanthus! We loved it! Happy building! Image Credit: "#HVD " by stubot is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 See more

16.01.2022 Some of the new nonfiction at the Library

15.01.2022 LEGO CLUB NEWS Last week's Halloween Challenge yielded some spoooky creations! Thank you to all the children who submitted a design! Well done! This week, we're moving on from spookiness to deliciousness, and challenging our builders to create chocolates and lollies ready for their Halloween buckets. You could build chocolates, round candy, sour worms, freddo frogs, candy canes, mints, and so much more! To join in the fun, head on over to Gilgandra Shire Library LEGO C...lub- Designs From Your Mind to join our club. Take a photo of your young person's creation and add it as a comment. Each week, one winner receives a LEGO minifigure in the mail. Happy building! Image credit: "Life on Mars" by KrzysztofTe Foto See more

14.01.2022 Great news! From today, the Library is back to longer opening hours from Monday to Friday. Opening at 10am (instead of 10.30am) and closing at 5pm, instead of 4.30pm. Lunch time closure remains 12.30-1.30pm.

14.01.2022 RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg

13.01.2022 Some of the great new Young Adult (YA) fiction at the Library!

12.01.2022 LEGO CLUB NEWS It's the spooky season! This week our challenge is to make the spookiest creation using LEGO bricks. Head on over to Gilgandra Shire Library LEGO Club- Designs From Your Mind to join, and post a photo of your child's creation. Each week one winner receives a LEGO minifigure in the mail. Congratulations to this week's winner, Pearl, who won last week's Blue challenge with her blue wall with flowers. Happy building! Image Credit: "LEGO Halloween 2015 set" by Dex1138 is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

12.01.2022 May we all have a school year filled with reading.

11.01.2022 CODE CLUB Code Club is back at the Library tomorrow Thursday at 4pm. Bookings essential, as Covid 19 precautions are in place. Please phone 6817 8877 or email [email protected].

11.01.2022 We have recently received some great new Manga graphic novels. Ouran High School Host Club, Full metal alchemist, Bleach and lots more Naruto. Plus lots of Pokémon Adventures. We also have lots of new One Piece. Happy reading!

10.01.2022 NEW BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS There is something for everyone, here! If you are finding it difficult to fit in a family visit to browse the library, please phone or email us and we will put together a bag of books for you to pick up whenever you get a chance- we call this "Library Books to Go". (Phone 6817 8877 or email [email protected] ) , We are also very happy to deliver if you are housebound.

08.01.2022 They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but maybe this is the one time when you could! We have received a beautifully bound copy of the classic "84, Charing Cross Road" by Helen Hanff- isn't it lovely? Here is what "Good Reads" have to say about this book: "This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that will grab your heart and not let go. " Do you have any favourite book covers?

08.01.2022 CODE CLUB NEWS This week, we are challenging coders to take on one of the new Code Club Scratch projects based on agriculture. This one is called 'Make it rain' where you have to catch the rain to water your farm. If your youngsters like coding, please head over to Gilgandra Shire Library Code Club to join our online code club. Happy coding! Image credit: "Cows" by macieklew is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

07.01.2022 CODE CLUB NEWS Sick of working hard to make a poem? Code a program to do it for you instead! To find out more, join Gilgandra Shire Library Code Club. ... Happy Coding! Image Credit: ["magnetic poetry"](https://www.flickr.com/photos/60263275@N00/4757004) by [surrealmuse](https://www.flickr.com/photos/60263275@N00) is licensed under [CC BY-NC-SA 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

05.01.2022 NAIDOC Week 2020- Always Was, Always Will Be. The Library has some wonderful books by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island authors. Why not mark NAIDOC with a great read? Read about the beautiful art work on this year's NAIDOC poster at: https://www.naidoc.org.au//waigana-wins-coveted-naidoc-202

03.01.2022 The Library regularly receives new books. Here are some recent arrivals; some are in large print.

03.01.2022 What is your online identity? Something everyone who uses the internet needs to think about: online identity and the digital footprint. Have you ever tried logging out of Google, then searching for yourself, or using Google in incognito mode to search for yourself, to see what you can find? https://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/23t/online-identity

02.01.2022 New MIND FOOD Chromatopia: an illustrated history of colour is a fascinating book by David Coles. Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Chromatopia reveals the origin stories of over 50 of history’s most extraordinary pigments. Human Kind: a hopeful history by Rutger Bregman, is a great read for these troubling times. Human beings, we’re taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good. The instinct to cooperate rather than compete, trust rather than distrust, has an evolutionary basis that goes right back to the beginning of our species. Happy Reading!

02.01.2022 New books for children at the Library- great books about belonging and families.

02.01.2022 One more sleep until a new LEGO Club challenge is issued! But we still need a creative soul or two to build an artwork in LEGO bricks, take a photo and upload it to Gilgandra Shire Library LEGO Club- Designs From Your Mind- it can be as simple as you like! Maybe make a LEGO pixel art picture of a piece of fruit or a favourite character? A winner will be chosen tomorrow to receive a LEGOminifigure in the post.... Image Credit: "Lego Mario" by blue_j is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

01.01.2022 MORE MIND FOOD The Last Lighthouse Keeper is John Cook’s memoir, written with Jon Bauer. One of Australia’s longest serving lighthouse keepers, John spent 26 years tending the lights at Tasman Island, Maatsuyker Island and Bruny Island. From sleepless nights keeping the lights alive, battling the wind and sea as they ripped at gutters and flooded stores, raising a joey, tending sheep and keeping ducks and chickens, the life of a keeper was one of unexpected joy and hear...tbreak. The Happiest Man on Earth is a wonderful memoir written by Eddie Jaku. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested, and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made a vow to smile every day. He pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life. He now believes he is the happiest man on earth. Published as Eddie turns 100, this is a powerful, heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful memoir of how happiness can be found even in the darkest times.