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.

Have you read all of the Harry Potter books? Or, have you watched all the movies? OR, have you done both? I haven’t seen the latest and last movie yet but am really looking forward to it! I saw part one on a MASSIVE screen in Charlestown square in Newcastle last year and loved it! But, I remember sitting next to my sister & saying to her, I know where they’re going to stop it & I WAS RIGHT!

I have read all the books and have enjoyed them and the movies and have thoroughly enjoyed watching the actors in the movies grow and improve and embrace the characters. I can’t read the books now without hearing Emma Watson’s Hermoine’s voice in my head.

15th & 16th June @ 10.30 am

29th & 30th June @ 10.30 am

13th & 14th July @ 10.30 am

 27th & 28th July @ 10.30 am

Open for children under the age of 6.  FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Story & activity!!!!!!!! 

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT KATE ON 67302600.

The FRIENDS OF THE LIBRAY ANNUAL BOOK SALE is happening on the 28th, 29th & 30th April 2011 at the Scout Hall, corner of Wentworth Street & West Avenue Glen Innes. Open from 9am to 4pm each day.

Come and grab a bargain & support your local library! All proceeds from the book sale go back to the library to allow us to purchase new resources!

If you would like to clean out your bookshelves and donated materials for the book sale, please drop any unwanted material to the library before the 28th April. 

If you’re interested in joining Friends of the Library, their meetings are held the first friday of every month in the library.

The Sixth Man by David Baldacci

Home Free by Fern Michaels

Late Edition by Fern Michaels

Hell’s bells by John Connolly

Born of shadows by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Quicksilver by Amanda Quick

I’ll walk alone by Mary Higgins Clark

Goddess of vengeance by Jackie Collins

Chasing fire by Nora Roberts

Save me by Lisa Scot- oline

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The service is also ideal for busy parents who are unable to assist their children with homework each night. For more information about this service please contact the Library on 6730 2600.
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The Senior’s Kiosk will be used for self paced computer tutorials for seniors in a relaxing and no pressure environment. Tutorials can cover all aspects of beginner emailing and setup, internet, introduction to computers and computer equipment. Library staff will conduct the tutorials on Wednesdays from 11am – 1 pm. Please contact the Library on 6730 2600 for your bookings.

People are devoted to their library and not just on one day of the year. Millions of library lovers across Australia must be right

The omen machine by Terry Goodkind

Death Wave by Stephen Coonts

Heartwood by Belva Plain

The penningtons by Pamela Oldfield

Now you see her by Joy Fielding

Pale demon by Kim Harrison

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Blood Count by  Robert Goddard

The identity man by Andrew Klavan

Tick Tock by James Patterson

Secrets to the grave by Tami Hoag

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We are madly getting ready for this year’s Summer Reading Club.  Summer Reading Club is open to primary school children & runs from the 12 December to 24 January culminating in a party on the 27th January.  Summer Reading Club is designed to encourage children to keep reading over the long summer holidays, so when they return to school their literacy levels are at the same level as when they finish school before christmas.

Summer Reading club website