Revitalising Libraries for the self serve generation

Congratulations to Library Jo the 2008 winner of the Margery C Ramsay Scholarship

Check out her blog, her travels, her experiences over the next 12 months.

Words on Friday @ Altona Library

Dont forget to come along and bring your friends to the Words Bookchat, meet the staff behind the bookmarks, mingle and enjoy books and chat.

See you there

Gardens create national safety net for plants in peril

Read this interesting article in The Age but it is copyright so you'll have to follow the link and read for yourself? Is this legal. hmm. cant tell you till next week after K@Willy has attended the copyright lecture @SLV.. More on that later

Seed library or seed bank?

Auslan Story time Wednesday 3rd December @ 10.30am & Meadows Library

Sorry folks this ones a bit hard to read, click on the image to enlarge and read the details of this great event coming to Altona Meadow Library

Hobsons Bay Tickets

For all your entertainment news and events in and around Hobsons Bay have a look @ Hobsons Bay Tickets

Popularity crashes mega library

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24688048-5005962,00.html

Click on the link for the full story from adelaidenow.com.au

Wouldnt you love to be as popular as Europeana

Geisha or not

A BIG thanks to the friends of Willy

Just a quick update on the
HUGE success of Willys biggest ever book sale last Saturday.
A BIG thanks to all the friends for their great efforts in 2008 and we cant wait till 2009 to see more of their sales
Thanks again everyone.
It even made the Willy Daily?!

Santas Quick Picks

Santas made a visit to Willy library and left his spare sleigh? in the childrens area
where your friendly staff are putting Santas Quick Picks (new and favourite childrens reads)

Come in and see for yourself and tell us which santa is which staff member in disguise?!

Heres a sneek preview.

WORDS connecting readers and writers in Hobsons Bay

Want to know whats to read, according to your library team?
Library team members invite you to gain inside information into their favourite authors, genres, music and movies
Check out the recommended reads bookmarks in books on display @ your branch.
Then meet the staff behind the bookmarks, share with people who love all things to do with words.

When?

Firday 28th November from 5pm @ Altona Library

book now! and stop in on the evening for refreshments and a chat

Old Technology to Futuristic Technology how many years is that?

Just a reminder

check out the old Technology @ Altona Meadows Library Display

this week

Can anyone say, "Good-bye laptops!"

Honestly, where would you file this

Fiction or Non Fiction?

Hows your eyesight for this keyboard?

A Computer Pen?

This "pen sort of instrument" produces both the monitor as well as the keyboard on any flat surfaces from where you can carry out functions you would normally do on your desktop computer. 

Do you believe this?

In the revolution of miniature computers, scientists have made great developments with bluetooth technology... This is the forthcoming computers you can carry within your pockets

No ordinary pen

No this is no ordinary pen

Have another guess

Have a guess

No?

Log in tomorrow for more picture clues

Too High tech 4 u

So the pen? may be a little futuristic but if you get down to

the Altona Meadows Library in the next week or so

you can check out their great display on Technology

including some of those great icons like the first mobile in carry case

and the legendary "brick" and the first camera phone

Your Tutor @ Your Library

Tutoring Help at the Libraries

Do you have children or clients who require study assistance?
Hobsons Bay libraries launched a free online tutoring service in late
October.

Simply connect to YourTutor via the library website to link
to a live online study support service for easy, instant help with maths,
English, science, assignment research and study skills from specialist
subject tutors.
The service is available from 4.00pm to 8.00pm, Mondays to Fridays
and is suitable for primary and secondary school students.

Give it a try and let your friends know

WiIlys Biggest Ever Book Sale Be there

Dont forget this Saturday is the big Willy book sale

November 15th 10.00am to 4.00pm

Williamstown Library Foyer

the last for 2008

Hurry in for all those great buys.

Altona Skipper Butterfly

Ever wanted to know more about the Altona Skipper Butterfly?
WebWilly tried searching the Hobsons Bay Council website and didnt have much luck.
Then WebWilly set up a rollyo with a few keywords and a few selected web addresses and
hey presto a few hits from council websites.

Why not try it for yourself.

More on Altona Skipper Butterfly

Click on the link for more info on the Altona Clipper Butterfly

http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/hesp/flave.html

SLV has wireless internet

Did u know?

The State Library of Victoria has wireless internet so spread the word

everyone loves wireless

for more info check it out @

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about/using/wireless/index.html?newsletter

Australian Newspapers Online 1803-1954

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP) ...brought to you by the National Library of Australia

WebWilly loves this this new service. Click on the link and have a look @ The Argus http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ to view copies of

The Argus
The Brisbane Courier
The Canberra Times
The Courier-Mail
The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter
Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser
The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser
The Mercury
The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal
The South Australian Advertiser
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser

This will be an invaluable tool for Australian Researchers. There are lots of opportunities to contribute by fixing errors,ironing out bugs and read old newspapers at the same time.


The BETA service is freely available to the public and currently contains 73,000 out of copyright newspaper pages (approx 730,000 individual
articles) from 1803 onwards. In order to expand the available content approximately 20,000 digitised newspaper pages will be added each week to the Beta service.

The Library welcomes feedback and suggestions from users of the service to enable further development. Details on the way in which feedback can be provided are on the 'about' page of the service. The Library will continue to develop the Beta service and fix any bugs and major issues that arise over the next few months.

The Beta service, will be further developed in line with user feedback into version 1 of the Australian Newspapers service and be officially launched in 2009.

The progress and extent of newspaper titles being digitised is outlined on the ANDP website.







http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home