Customer Service Quality Survey 2020
Completing our ten minute questionnaire online will help us assess our services. We are seeking your personal opinions and all answers will be kept confidential. The questionnaire cannot be completed at different time intervals unless the internet browser is kept open. The questionnaire is also available in hard copy at our library branches. This survey is being conducted with the assistance
of the University of South Australia. The questionnaire can be accessed here.
The Council Lawn comes alive as the
Stirling Fringe returns for 2020
Relax and enjoy some of the Fringe’s hottest acts without the hassle and hustle of the CBD on the Stirling Library lawns from Friday 21 February to Sunday 1 March. This year the Stirling Fringe is highlighting The Wild Unfeeling World, a re-telling of Melville’s Moby Dick and The Guardian’s top pick from the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe which will be staged within the Coventry Library. Programs are available from the Coventry Library or online. Library and Council Customer Services will be available as usual during this time.
StudiosityHolidays finishing! Studies starting? Need help with tricky subjects? Then log on to our free online service for assistance. It’s a great resource for upper primary, secondary, university, and remote learning students. Chat directly with qualified tutors or submit essays for feedback. You can even submit resumes and access NAPLAN like tests. Log in here for 24/7 access.
Writers Week 2020The Coventry and Woodside Libraries are live streaming Writers Weeks talks. Come along and hear the authors minus the traffic and weather. Monday 2 March to Thursday 5 March. Coventry Library Monday 9.30am - 5.00pm, Tuesday and Thursday 9.30am - 6.00pm Woodside Library Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm View the talks being streamed here.
Library Lovers DayFebruary 14 Join us to Uncover Something New at the Coventry and Woodside Libraries
on Friday 14 February. Choose your favourite genre from our Library Lovers display, take a card and scratch it to reveal a book title to try. Look out for the displays - they will be the ones with the Hershey’s chocolate kisses and flowers - and uncover something new to read this Library Lovers Day!
Adult Digital LiteracyTraining resumes in February and can be booked on 8408 0400 or on our website. Adult digital literacy - One on one and group sessions to assist with
using your iPad, Android or Windows laptop are available at both Woodside and Coventry Libraries Family history training - Group sessions for beginners to learn about the resources available, including access to Ancestry.com from within our libraries. Book a one on one session if you’ve started a family history project but need help to keep it going,
Early childhood programs are back! Baby Bounce and Rhyme - 0 to 18 months Action Rhymes & Stories - 18 months to three years Pre-school StoryTime - 3 to 5 years Following a holiday hiatus, all pre-school programs are back at both branches at their usual times. No bookings required!
Access an exciting collection of contemporary Australian and international digital books and audiobooks. Recently purchased titles include: eAudiobooks - The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Me - the Elton John autobiography, The Last Paradise by Di Morrissey, and Kitty Flanagan’s 488 Rules for Life. eBooks - Sanctuary by Judy Nunn, The Second Sleep by Robert Harris, The Wife and the Widow by Christian White and Tim Ayliffe’s State of Fear. Borrowbox is a user friendly platform accessible only to Adelaide Hills members. Try it here. Not sure how? Ask staff or see the instructions here.
Stream Films at home using your Adelaide Hills Library card! If you have an Adelaide Hills library card you have access to over 30,000 of the world’s best films - to award winning documentaries and film festival favourites, to world cinema, indie and classic films, and to otherwise hard to find or rare titles. Children holding our library card similarly have free access to Kanopy Kids, a curated collection highlighting entertaining and educational videos that inspire and inform and help develop empathy, mindfulness and self-esteem. Access Kanopy here.
Your Adelaide Hills library card also provides access to The New York Times online. A multiple Pulitzer prize winner, the New York Times has worldwide influence and readership. Keep up with both American and world politics, scientific developments, style trends, cooking, health, travel and arts and culture. Access over a dozen video channels, podcasts and magazines and subscribe to a customisable newsletter and its crosswords. Check out this great service here.
February | Stirling and Woodside
Digital literacy sessions recommence 14 February | Stirling and Woodside
Library Lovers Day 22 February - 3 March | Stirling
Stirling Fringe March 2 - 5
Adelaide Writers Week live streaming | Stirling and Woodside See more events at the Adelaide Hills Council website
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