By Brittany Riley
Spotlight: School holiday fun!
Are you ready for school holidays next week? We are! Join us for melty beads at Curlewis Hall on Monday, July 7, with afternoon craft sessions at the Gunnedah Library at 3:30pm on July 8, 9 and 10 (with robots, cotton wool pictures, and paper airplanes on offer.) Bookings are essential for these $3 sessions, so call us on (02) 6740 2190 to reserve your place.
It’s also World Population Day on Friday, July 11. According to the United Nations, the population is projected to be 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050, and 10.9 billion in 2100!
Spotlight: eResources
If you’re not using IndyReads, uLibrary, hoopla, or any of our other online borrowing platforms, you’re missing out!
These platforms combined offer over one million titles for you to enjoy outside of library opening hours with eBooks, audiobooks, magazines, movies, TV shows, and much more. For supplementary learning, we also offer LOTE4Kids (Languages Other Than English), REDeLEARN (developed in conjunction with the Australian curriculum), and EraBooks for those learning to read.
Spotlight: New books
Prolific biographer Brenda Niall has penned Joan Linsday (820 NIA).
Joan Linsday wrote the Australian classic Picnic at Hanging Rock, but who was she really? She was more than the wife of painter, art entrepreneur and National Gallery of Victoria director Daryl Lindsay with her credits spanning landscape painting, playwrighting, and journalism. Brenda will explore all these achievements and more.
Inkbound – Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo (YAF LEA) by Philippa Leathley is new to young adult fiction.
Upon turning 10, Meticulous ‘Metty’ Jones receives her customary tattoo which dictates her destiny. What appears is a skull in the palm of a violet glove – Metty’s fate is to be a murderer. When her father disappears, Aunt Magnificent takes her to the glittering city of New London but hears rumours of the Black Moths. Are they connected to her own dark fate?
New to Health and Fitness is Our Brains, Our Selves (611 HUS) from acclaimed Oxford University neurologist Masud Husain.
Through seven patient stories, he shows us how our brains create our identity, how that identity can be changed, and sometimes even be restored. Furthermore, they show how modern neuroscience can help to explain the changes in behaviour that occur when our perception, attention, memory, motivation or empathy are altered.
Come say hello at your local library!
Now available at Gunnedah Shire Library is ‘Joan Linsday’ by prolific biographer Brenda Niall and new to Health and Fitness is ‘Our Brains, Our Selves’.
