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25.01.2022 Is diversity and inclusion important to you? Click the link to watch the full versions of Toni Kola presenting Rainbow Families Story Time Online https://vimeo.com/showcase/7845407 Featuring ‘My Shadow is Pink’ by Scott Stuart (Larrikin House) and 'Who's Your Real Mum?' by Bernadette Green and Anna Zobel (Scribe Publications). Thank you Australian Library and Information Association, ... Australian Publishers Association and the Australian Society of Authors for allowing us to read this story to you in this way. Rainbow Families ACT, Diversity ACT

24.01.2022 Whether you're a green thumb or a brown thumb we have a new online program to help you attract wildlife to your garden. Think birds and bees! https://vimeo.com/464139885 This is the first instalment in our new Gardening with Tracey Bool series. That's right, our Canberra gardening expert Tracey Bool Horticultural Consultant & Garden Writer is straight from Floriade and back with us just in time for the long weekend. ... You can peruse our website catalogue for gardening books if you need some more information or inspiration. Just go to Digital Resources at https://www.library.act.gov.au/. Happy gardening! This video has open captions.

24.01.2022 A little birdie told us that magpie swooping season is upon us! Vicki reads 'Waddle Giggle Gargle' by Pamela Allen (Puffin Books/Penguin Books Australia). https://vimeo.com/454666809 Its a well-loved story about how one family copes with a swooping Magpie during springtime! ... Thank you to the Australian Society of Authors, Australian Publishers Association and Australian Library and Information Association for allowing us to bring stories to you in this way.

21.01.2022 Service dogs provide an invaluable service to the community. #Dogtober is a time each year to pay tribute to the role of these hard-working and warm-hearted Canberrans! Pets are wonderful companions and play an important role for older members of our community both in aged care or living alone. Do you have a service or working dog? Share a photo in the comments below on on our Flikr page 'Our Canberra Stories' http://bit.ly/OurCanberraStories. #TherapyAnimals #internationalDayforOlderPersons

19.01.2022 Want your child to learn some Cantonese words? We have songs in our new Cantonese and English Showcase to make it easy. You can giggle and wiggle in another language! https://vimeo.com/showcase/7728256

18.01.2022 Today's Giggle & Wiggle will take your little ones on a fun-filled journey from afternoon tea to a farm then home again on the bus just in time to see the stars twinkling in the sky! Featuring: Five little peas in a pea pod pressed Three little apples... The Grand Old Duke of York Old MacDonald Three little ducks Galumph went the little green frog Baa baa black sheep Mary had a little lamb Little Peter Rabbit Once I caught a fish alive If you're happy and you know it The wheels on the bus Twinkle twinkle little star See more

17.01.2022 This Monday 5 October all Libraries ACT branches and the ACT Heritage Library will be closed for the Labour Day public holiday. You can still access our extensive range of Digital Resources online. Return chutes will be open. All branches will be re-open regular hours from Tuesday 6 October.

17.01.2022 Get ready for Rainbow Family Story Time Online this Sunday! Local Canberra Drag performer Toni Kola reads stories celebrating Rainbow Families and LGBTQIA+ parents and children. We want every type of family and child to feel visible and represented in the stories they read. Rainbow Families ACT Diversity ACT #springoutCBR

17.01.2022 Want to learn some Mandarin? Or do you speak Mandarin and are looking for stories to share with your children? Our Bilingual Story Time Online Showcase is a great place to start. Follow the links to the full showcase. https://vimeo.com/showcase/7728245 https://vimeo.com/419754289

16.01.2022 Have you been watching the new season of ‘The Crown’? If so, you will have seen the portrayal of the 1983 Royal Tour of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. We waited and waited to see the peak event of that tour the official opening of Erindale Library on 25 March 1983 but it wasn’t portrayed! Luckily the #ACTHeritageLibrary has a photo. Were you there? Did you see Charles and Di on their first visit together to Canberra? Image: Prince Charles and Princess Diana at the opening of Erindale Library, Royal Visit, March 1983, Canberra Times Collection.

15.01.2022 If you thought you missed our Giggle & Wiggle this week you haven't! We were out and about learning new songs and having fun. Kerri, Catherine and Vicki from Erindale Library share songs with you and your little one to sing anytime you go out and about. https://vimeo.com/482469185 Then settle down and watch Vicki read 'Stanley the Sock Monster Goes to the Moon' by Jedda Robaard (Bonnier Publishing Australia) https://vimeo.com/464110613 Featuring:... To market, to market Here we go to Grandma's house/the playground Grand Old Duke of York Wheels on the bus Row row row your boat Twinkle twinkle little star Three little ducks Two little dickie birds Incy Wincy Spider The goodbye train is leaving Thank you Australian Library and Information Association, Australian Publishers Association and Australian Society of Authors for allowing us to read to you in this way. All songs in the public domain.

15.01.2022 Today is our special Bilingual Online Story Time. Join Bambie as she reads 'Alexander's Outing' by Pamela Allen (Penguin Books Australia) in Vietnamese and English. You can also find 'Walking in the Jungle' (by Debbie Harter) in our Vietnamese and English Bilingual Story Time Online Showcase. https://vimeo.com/showcase/7621095 Thank you to the Australian Society of Authors, Australian Publishers Association and Australian Library and Information Association for allowing us to bring stories to you in this way.

15.01.2022 We head to Erindale Library for #FloriadeReimagined this weekend to check out some spring craft books. If you would like to borrow or reserve one of them go to Digital Resources at https://www.library.act.gov.au/ Our crafty librarian Kerri also demonstrates how you can make a simple paper tulip from "Spring and Easter Paper Crafting with Reny" by Renata Kolibova. This is a great one for children to do this long weekend. https://vimeo.com/452106309

12.01.2022 Ever wanted to learn some Ngunnawal language? As a special Giggle & Wiggle this long weekend, Selina sings songs for us in Ngunnawal and English - a great way for the whole family to learn this local Indigenous language! https://vimeo.com/showcase/7633506 You can also find our video of the book 'One, Two, Cockatoo' and learn even more Ngunnawal. It's a great book for the little ones to relax with after a busy day.

11.01.2022 An exciting time for Canberran anglers is the annual opening of the trout season, starting on the October long weekend. #WeAreCBR A gem in the #ACTHeritageLibrary is the Edward Gooch fishing collection showing two decades of notes, sketches and data of Mr Edward (Ted) Ussher Gooch from 1964-1984. Ted kept full and accurate records of every fish he caught over a period of nearly twenty years. He recorded details of weight and length, when and where caught, what lures or fli...es were used, and even the contents of each fish’s stomach. Ted spent many hours sketching the things he saw while fishing and walking through the bush. He also meticulously crafted fishing flies, many based on his observations of various insects and other water life. Alpine Trout Fishing Australia, The Alpine Angler, Trout Fishing NSW, Tumut fishing, Tumut Fly Fishing - Tumut Australia, NSW Freshwater Fishing may particularly enjoy these!

11.01.2022 Did you watch Toni Kola read 'Who's Your Real Mum' by Bernadette Green (Scribe Publications)? It's a story to bring a tear to your eye and celebrates what makes a real mum - love. Watch the full story here https://vimeo.com/484261439 Thank you to Scribe Publications, Australian Library and Information Association, Australian Publishers Association, Australian Society of Authors for letting us read to you in this way. Rainbow Families ACT, Diversity ACT

11.01.2022 Blasting back to 1960s to acknowledge World Space Week! If you have space in your calendar, learn about the role Australia has played in international deep space tracking right here in Canberra’s backyard. Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station was established as part of the Apollo moon missions in the 1960s, in what became Namadgi National Park. It sent commands and received telemetry from the spacecraft, and also tracked its position. After the Apollo series it was used for th...e US Skylab Mission and the joint US-Russia Apollo-Soyuz Mission. After that the station was reconfigured for the NASA Deep Space Network, and finally closed in the early 1980s. The Cassegrain antenna was moved to the Tidbinbilla tracking station nearby, where it remains part of the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex. If you have any photos we would love to see them. Share them on the #ACTHeritageLibrary Flickr page, ‘Our Canberra Stories http://bit.ly/OurCanberraStories. Photo: 1966, The Canberra Times Collection

09.01.2022 It's springtime, the trees are beginning to blossom and the birds are laying eggs in their nests! We've picked this lovely Online Story Time with Anna for #FloriadeReimagined to share with your children today. https://vimeo.com/showcase/7434772/video/452039151

07.01.2022 It's #FloriadeReimagined and we are singing and reading our way through the tulips! Sing songs with your 0-2 year olds about spring, flowers, birds and being in your garden with Amelia and Ambareen in today's special Giggle & Wiggle. Older children will also enjoy singing along. https://vimeo.com/457614568 Then Catherine reads Florette, a story about living and being in a garden. A wonderful story for all ages https://vimeo.com/452033612

07.01.2022 Have you been hanging out for Hideout, Jack Heath’s newest book from the very popular, and very gruesome Hangman series ? We’re proud to call Jack one of our very own local Canberra authors and we were so excited to have Andrew Bell host him at the ACT Heritage Library for our #ReadLocal author conversations series: https://vimeo.com/481562041 ... Check out the interview and find out how the very lively, smiley, friendly Jack comes up with such dark, threatening characters and twisted story lines. Plus, hear what has influenced him, how he uses humour and the mundane to create interest, and what he recommends for kids and adults if you haven’t read any of his books yet. Wishing Jack Heath all the best for the JACK HEATH ‘HIDEOUT’ BOOK LAUNCH on Sunday at Dymocks Belconnen! Meanwhile, we’ve got Hideout on order, so you can reserve it now: bit.ly/LibrariesACT-Catalogue-JackHeath

07.01.2022 These photos have been recently donated to the #ACTHeritageLibrary. The completed MLC Building in Civic and development on East Row place them in the 1960s or later. Using your knowledge of cars, fashion and development can you help us date these photos? Council of ACT Motor Clubs Shannons Canberra Cars n Coffee ACT Classic & Muscle car forum... The Canberra Page Dirty Janes Canberra Vintage Car Rentals Canberra See more

06.01.2022 How are you feeling about the start of the school holidays, are you mad about them ie. love them, or do they drive you mad ? If you're looking for a great way to entertain the kids book into our online Mad Food Science Program hosted by Nourishing Love Nutrition & The Root Cause (1 & 2 October, bookings are essential) Or if you need some ideas to help keep them busy throughout the hols (or help keep your sanity), head to our website: bit.ly/LibrariesACT-SchoolHolidays-Sep...tOct2020 We've got: - Fossil Frenzy activities courtesy of Inspiring the ACT - Floriade Reimagined activities - Little Listeners Podcast by Left Lane Outreach Theatre - and more!

05.01.2022 REMINDER: All Libraries ACT branches and the ACT Heritage Library are closed today for the Labour Day public holiday. You can still access our extensive range of Digital Resources online. Return chutes are open. All branches will be re-open regular hours from Tuesday 6 October.

03.01.2022 Heading to Flix 'n Dickson this Saturday for a free screening of 'Paddington 2' hosted by City Renewal Canberra? Want even more Paddington? See what books and DVDs we have online for Libraries ACT members to borrow https://bit.ly/373ANxa

02.01.2022 At the #ACTHeritageLibrary we were recently asked about trees seen on the top of buildings around Canberra. "Tree topping" or "topping off" was a common sight in Canberra in the 1970s. Workers would attach a tree to the highest point of a new structure. The tradition began approximately 2700 BC to the time of the Egyptians. A live plant honoured those who died during a pyramid's construction. An evergreen tree was placed on the highest point of a newly completed building in the early Italian Renaissance. Following the Renaissance various countries modified the ceremony to fit local custom. Tree topping symbolises the safe completion of the most dangerous phase of construction. We hope this tops off your day!

02.01.2022 Need a fabulous Friday frolic? Watch Catherine read 'Miss Lily's Fabulous Pink Feather Boa', written by Margaret Wild and illustrated by Kerry Argent (Penguin Australia). https://vimeo.com/484234500 Thank you Penguin Books Australia, Australian Library and Information Association, Australian Publishers Association and Australian Society of Authors for allowing us to read to you in this way.