Books Alive 2008

Be involved with Books Alive 2008 and meet and hear two of Australia's greatest authors of crime thrillers, Kathryn Fox and Michael Robotham.

Books Alive is an Australian Government initiative developed through the Australia Council for the Arts.

City of Onkaparinga Libraries are proud to host these authors at the Arts Centre Port Noarlunga on Wednesday 27 August, 2:00 to 3:30 pm.

Please call a City of Onkaparinga Library to make a booking for this event and visit one of the branches to collect a copy of the guide, "50 books you can't put down".

Top 10s

Britain's Guardian newspaper publishes top 10 book lists by various people.

From Elise Valmorbida's top 10 books with a happy ending and Richard Gwyn's top 10 books in which things end badly, to Lara Fiegel's top 10 smelly books and Gemma Malley's top 10 dystopian novels for teenagers, there's sure to be a list for you.

Lists are added regularly.

Write an original sms poem. U must B 12-25 yrs + live, skool or work in the City of Onkaparinga. Use clva sms language and either text, email or post your poem entry. Remember to include your name, email, age & contact number with your entry.

Age categories: 12-15yrs, 16-18yrs, 19-25yrs $200 per age category.

Starts Monday 21 July 2008. Ends Friday 29 August 2008.

Winners will be announced at the Awards Night to be held on Thursday 11 September at Seaford Library.

A competition entry form is available for download or you can pick one up at your local City Of Onkaparinga library.

Lookybook

Oh, crumbs!

Searching the internet for something and get so engrossed following a multitude of links that you've forgotten which page had the best information?

Want to share a collection of sites with someone without e-mailing a list of links or sending all of your bookmarked sites?

iBreadCrumbs is the solution.

iBreadCrumbs is a website (click-stream) recorder. A toolbar is downloaded to Mozilla Firefox (only browser that supports iBreadCrumbs) and you start and stop the recording session. Notes may be added to sites you visit and at the end of the session you may edit, delete or add more notes or sites. Title, save and categorize your breadcrumbs and they are ready to be sent to friends or exported to Excel. Promote and share your breadcrumbs using the breadcrumb URL.

May be the best thing since sliced-bread ...

Events plus ..

Lots of events and changes over the last couple of months.

We have farewelled Carly and welcomed Anne to the team.

The salmon pink decor has now been eradicated from the front desk and replaced with shiny metal surfaces. We now have a desk for customer registrations and wireless connections too.

The Friends have purchased a very popular print for behind the front desk.

A series of local history DVDs were launched at the library and they are in high demand.

We showcased photos from the Local Studies collection for History Week and circulation figures were probably up during Library Week due to the lucky draw. Many sighs of disappointment have been heard as people realised they weren't in the winner's circle.

School holidays were great fun!