Library Staff having fun during Book Week

Its Book Week with the theme "Across the Story Bridge" so the Library team decided to get dressed up. Here are the photos to prove it.

What can we say :)

Librarians do have a sense of humour.

Baby Rhyme Time

Baby Rhyme Time is an important activity for us, it introduces new mums and dads to the world of stories and simple rhyme activities they can do with their little one.  Its on a Saturday morning from 9.30-10am during term time. Please call 47839970 or 47821327 for more information. Parents, carers and babies 0-2 years are all welcome.

Parents and Carers and babies enjoying Baby Rhyme time at the Burdekin Library in Ayr. Saturday 21 August 2010

Module 2 - Listen , Watch and Mix it now open

The Second module in the State Library of Queensland's on-line learning program titled  'Listen , Watch and Mix it' started yesterday. One of the interesting topics is Mashups. If you have not signed up for the programme call the library on 47839970 to find out how to get started.

Organise yourself Module 1 "Looking@2.0"

Hopefully by now  you will be exploring this module.  Organize your books is a lot of fun, one of the topics referred to is social cataloguing websites and it makes reference to Library Thing.

Here at the Burdekin we use Library Thing for libraries for a lot of things including book reviews and there are some 450,000 reviews in Library Thing which we potentially draw from. The best part about these book reviews, they are from people who actually have read the book and from all over the world - pretty impressive i think.

To see an example of LibraryThing for Libraries on our catalogue use the link below;

LibraryThing for Libraries on our catalogue

The Burdekin certainty has talented artists in its community.

Each month we feature artists across the Burdekin with our "Art and Artists of the Burdekin" series and August is no different as the photograph above shows. Starts Tuesday 10 August.

Ipad and the public library

Burdekin library is just getting used to a new addition -an Ipad and boy is it impressive.Once the staff are fully trained up we will make it available for use in the library, it's loaded with a number of useful programs and of course some games. Initial impression very cool.

By the way this blog entry was created using the Ipad