Cooking classes at the library

Wow - last week saw tasty smells wafting through the Library during the cooking class. Cooking for ones and two's in partnership with the health promotions team is a great success.  6 people every week are learning new cooking skills and having a great time. The claases will run again in 2011 so stay tuned for further details.

Conference presentation

The Burdekin Library is attending the SirsiDynix APAC user conference this coming week. For those wondering its about the software that runs our Library system including the public on-line catalogue.

We are doing a presentation on how we use "LibraryThing for Libraries" which gives you suggestions for other authors to try and reviews many of the books we have. The conference will have Librarians from Australia and Asia-Pacific.         

Web site gems or - a rose amongst many thorns

From time to time library staff comment about web sites that have caught their eye. This is one that leaves me spellbound, strongly recommended.

TED - ideas worth spreading. As the web site says "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world"

Nutrition week at the Burdekin library

What a week we are having with Nutrition week, there have been health checks and cooking classes amongst other things this week. The photos below give some indication of what we have been up to. A very big thank you to the team from Health Promotion Connections Inc. at Bowen who partnered with us.

Computer Games at the Burdekin Library

It looks like the kids including the 'big kids' had a ball playing the Wii as a school holiday activity at the Library.