I was about 11 years old when reading finally ‘clicked’ for me. My Latin teacher (that’s right, Latin – I’m THAT old) gave me a copy of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ – an oblong slab of dead tree 1065 pages long. I felt I had to give it a go, it being given to me by a teacher and all – so I started into it… and within a few pages something happened: I began to see what I was reading. As I turned the pages the view just kept getting wider and wider. These days cinema screens are bigger and better than ever, but the truth is the screen inside your head is a million miles wide – and the hi-def is to die for – Graeme Base ( National Ambassor )
The Glen Innes Severn Public Library will be hosting several activities for National Year of Reading (NYR) 2012. Check out these coming events on our calendar:
*February- December - Wear RED Wednesdays
*March – Caught Reading Photographic Competition
*July – E-readers Launch
*September – Father & Childrens Storytelling Corner on Saturdays
Want to know more…………
‘Caught Reading’ Photograph Competition
You are invited to submit photographs of people reading in unusual situations to the Library in person or via email Library@gisc.nsw.gov.au
Please supply your name, address, contact details (phone, mobile or email address), your age and a short description on your photograph. You will be required to fill in a Photograph Permission Form Photo_Permission which will give the Library permission to display your photograph on our display board in the Library, insert your photograph in our Blog, or promote the competition in our local paper.
The community will be invited to vote on the photographs on our display board and our judges will pick the winners at the end of June. All winners will be announce in the local paper and we will personally contact you. The 1st prize winner will win a $240 camera, 2nd prize winner will win an electronic automatic photograph display unit. There are lots of prizes for children as well so start snapping those readers.
This competition will commence on Thursday 1 March 2012 and finish on the 29 June, when all entries will be judged and winners announced.
E-reader Launch
Try our 10 new e-readers loaded with genre specific e-books. One will be for the mystery reader, another for the romantic, and yet another for the western enthusiast. We will be sure to have one for your favourite reading material. This launch will commence on Monday 2 July as one of our major National Year of Reading events.
Father & Children’s Storytelling Corner on Saturdays
We are really excited abouth this National Year of Reading event as we would like to encourage all fathers to spend some quality time with their children reading bedtime stories, visiting the library to help select their books, and participating in a storytelling event and activities on Saturday.
For more information about any of the above events please contact the Library on 02 6730 2600.
