No images? Click here Celebration and JubilationAs of Monday 1st June all our libraries, other than the Mobile Library, can host twenty people at a time. Please be sure to check the current hours of operation for each branch. Please note that SA Health Services has asked us to request customers to provide their name and phone or email contact upon entry to each library. Details as to how to do this will be explained as you enter each library. Do remember the importance of continuing social distancing and good hygiene practices as you visit our facilities. Please click here to get a full overview of what to expect with the re-opening of our libraries. We are continuing to provide our ‘Click and Collect’ service for members of the community who prefer to not yet enter into our libraries. Our external return chutes will continue to be open 24/7 to assist us in effectively quarantining returned library materials. Reservations are now arriving from across the SA Library Network and are ready for collection. If you no longer wish to receive any items placed on hold, please let us know. Prompt collection of items once we have notified you of their arrival would be greatly appreciated. Have your say on our next 12 months Council's draft Annual Business Plan 2020-21 is now open for review and feedback from the community. This document outlines how we plan to achieve our goals for the next financial year and we want to make sure we’re getting it right. Check it out here and send us your thoughts before 5.00pm on 18 June 2020. Library Lego LegendsYour Challenge - Build Your Best Isolation House! Every entry goes into the running to win a prize: closes Friday 3 July What would be your ideal house? Would it have a pool? A theme park on the roof? A cinema inside? What would make staying at home just that bit better right now? You have all term to make your amazing creation and you can enter as many times as you like. To enter: • Take a video or photos of your Lego construction and email them to us. Make sure you include your name, age and contact phone number OR • Upload your photos and video to our Facebook page. Please don't add personal details here, we will contact you directly if we need them. Children across our Council are invited to join in this wonderful project which makes connections with our older residents through the creation of postcards. Each participating child will create a postcard that reflects their experience of being at home during the ‘locked down’ period of COVID-19. They will also include a brief description of the experience. Each postcard will be forwarded to an older person in residential care. That person will then have the opportunity to make their own postcard and send it back to the child. Children will also have the opportunity to have their postcards scanned and retained digitally as a part of the State Library of South Australia project ‘Remember My Story COVID-19’. To participate register through Eventbrite and then register as an individual or, if a school class, as a group. If you are an Activities Coordinator at an Aged Care facility, please contact Michelle Dawson directly on 8408 0400 or email mdawson@ahc.sa.gov.au. Help keep our community connected with kindness! Access Overdrive in languages other than English You can now browse, search, and enjoy Overdrive’s Libby App in the languages listed below: Spanish French German Japanese Russian Italian Swedish Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese Libby will recognise the reader’s device language setting and automatically display the app in that language if it is included in the list. Users will be able to toggle Libby’s display by updating the language setting on their device. Adding to our CollectionsWe are continuing to purchase new materials but it is taking a little longer to get them onto the shelves. However, as you can see, there is a steady flow of new titles across all collections. CHILDREN’S BOOKS: Zoe’s latest book selections for children range across ages and interests, and always include some dyslexia friendly titles. CHILDREN’S DVDS: Zoe has refreshed hard working favourites such as The Wiggles, Bluey, and Peppa the Pig, and added a number of interesting new titles. LARGE PRINT: Keep an eye out for some of the great new large print titles in all your favourite genres including crime, romance and some classics that have just been added to this collection. Online resources - Adelaide Hills members onlyDon’t forget the wonderful children’s programs Caroline, Claire and Tanya have been putting online. Click here for their hilarious Simultaneous Storytime rendering of ‘Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas’ complete with real chickens! Our BorrowBox loans doubled for the month of April so, in good news for our avid readers, we’ve spent the Stirling Friends’ donation of $4,000 on new titles that are now available! Read below for details of the new children's titles added to BorrowBox. Studiosity for students requiring a little assistance with school work! Kanopy and Beama for free movie streaming For additional film and series streaming suggestions... Access some of these unsung – but excellent – series or even chase up a few of these movies that are unlike anything you may have seen before! What's new for kids on BorrowBox? Children can read and listen to even more titles from home thanks to a donation from the Stirling Friends of the Library. This donation has funded some exciting new titles on our BorrowBox eAudio and eBook platform that you don’t even have to come in to the library to borrow! Check out The Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger; a great series for Harry Potter fans looking for a new book. And if you want Harry Potter, the whole series is available on both eBook and eAudiobook with the first book being always available. Catch Suzanne Collins Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and listen to the whole series while you’re there. Books by bestselling authors like David Walliams, Roald Dahl, Anh Do, Aaron Blabey, Enid Blyton and Andy Griffiths and series like Skulduggery Pleasant, Scarlet and Ivy, A Murder Most Unladylike and The Wizards of Once are available alongside classics like Narnia, The Little Prince, Little Women and The Animals of Farthing Wood. Audio books can also be great for calming young minds and bodies, and with this in mind try Ladybird Sleepy Tales, Mem Fox’s Classic Magic collection, lots of titles by Julia Donaldson, the Ladybird Audio Adventures series and The Alison Lester Collection. Suggestions to keep you busyWe’ve listed some interesting sites for you to visit, to learn, experience, escape, to just enjoy! From arias to radio plays, cooking to origami, museums to aquariums - Find out what is streaming where and when all over Australia. State Opera of South Australia Arias from the Archives Performed by current artists from the company and recorded at the Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Arias from the Archives is a celebration of the power of the voice and the ability of opera to transform the listener The BBC’s archive of radio plays The BBC’s Radio 4 broadcasts a new production almost every day, and the station’s online archives are full of treasures. A recent highlight is “The Man With the Golden Gun”. It also has eco-thrillers, rom-coms, contemporary dramas, and modern spins on Greek mythology to sift through. Literary recordings from thepostarchive YouTube channel thepostarchive has all kinds of materials to peruse: readings, discussions, interviews, and lectures from literary figures, activists, and various luminaries. Engage with literature listening to legendary writers read their own poems and discuss their work . Informal tutorial videos for recipes range from hibiscus cocktails to classic ratatouille and make it look simple. Making your own pizza with homemade dough and sauce is the perfect pandemic activity to get lost in—and provides a delicious finished product. Since it’s on YouTube, it’s easy to pause and rewind and hear tips often too subtle to include in the written versions of recipes. Online culture courses at Harvard Free humanities courses ranging from three to 15 weeks and requiring a commitment of only a few hours each week that offer introductory classes on theatre, history, classical music, and the Maoist revolution. “Shakespeare’s Othello: The Moor” considers how the theme of storytelling informs characters within that tragedy, while “Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and Riots” dives into the disruptive debut of an avant-garde sensation Origami patterns from the Spruce Crafts The DIY site the Spruce Crafts offers step-by-step instructions for a variety of folded-paper creations; for kids, these activities double as a hands-on guide to shapes and fractions. A jumping frog or flapping bird provides nearly instant gratification - or piece together interlocking Sonobe units to make intricate geometric designs. A virtual tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Met is one of thousands of museums currently offering virtual tours and its huge collection provides both wonder and order. It’s also worth visiting the Museo Frida Kahlo in Mexico City, and the Galleria Nazionale in Rome. Follow this link to the aquarium, click onto live cams and enjoy a range of fascinating cams – aviary, coral reef, penguins, sea otters just to start. Or go straight to watching the sea otters being fed. It’s a lovely site! For Council updates and information about all of our services during this period you can visit Hills Voice: your say. For the latest updates and healthcare recommendations about the COVID-19 pandemic, please refer to the Department of Health. Stay well and we hope to welcome you back soon! |