From the Library

Library time again.  If there is anyone out there that I haven’t recommended to read Dana Stabenow then you are quite unique!  So if you are hooked on Kate Shugak, as I am, and have been waiting for Book 9 (Hunter’s moon) then see me immediately.  Other new books – bit thin on the ground as it’s a quiet time at the moment, post-Christmas. 

However, if you do see something in the Warehouse that looks good, then do let me know.  On the DVD front, we now have over 700 DVDs and are again running out of space for them. 

Mind you we are running out of space for everything.  We almost have all the stack room books back in the library.  These are primarily the early NZ history and biography books which are proving very popular in the library. 
We have made a little shelving area specially for early NZ biographies – they won’t all fit in however, so the more you take out the more we can fit in – remember they are free. 

On another matter, some of you may have noticed some beautiful music wafting out the library doors on a Wednesday morning.  Do feel free to join our group  of pre-schoolers in the new Te Reo session at 10.  We mainly sing with the odd book but the children are really enjoying it (and us adults as well).  Janet gets out her mandolin and Rita her guitar and I do the dancing (sometimes!). 
Library book group – yes finally we are going to do it.  It’s been rocking around in my brain for 5 years now, so Friday mornings at 10 we will start, in the library.  If you are interested just turn up, we now have a table in the back room again so we will coffee ourselves up in there and get started. 

The other group I would love to start is a Bananagrams Get-together.  Perhaps you could register your interest and we could start it on a Thursday morning at 10.  For those who love Scrabble this is TurboScrabble – fast and furious and great fun.  I always have a set on me for emergencies. 

Book, DVD and magazine donations – thanks to everyone for all the donations we have received recently.  Always a pleasure to receive donations.  Another job done – I have been clearing out some of the older kids picture books and if you would like some for your children, playgroup, kindy etc, please come and see us.  Honestly there are hundreds of them. 
That’s all folks as they used to say at the cinema.  Come and see us soon.  Shirley