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Get stuck into the garden in October
Casey Cardinia Libraries are full of adults, kids and babies enjoying our spaces over the School Holidays.
October has lots of fun and free events for you to enjoy. Get Online week starts on Monday 17 October and we have some fantastic safety events to keep you up to date and informed. More details on these are listed in the story below.
The Seed Library has expanded and will be available at all libraries from October 10. Come in and take some seeds, grow your own food then donate seeds back to other library members. There has never been a better time to roll up your sleeves and get planting.
There are fantastic resources on Healthy Eating Accessible Local (HEAL) foods, how to eat in season this spring and home gardening support so make sure you check it out.
See you at the library.
Beth Luppino
Chief Executive Officer
Casey Cardinia Libraries
Seed Library to grow
Are you keen to start your own garden at home? Join our free seed library and start planting.
How does it work?
Borrow
Take up to three different types of seeds per season. It’s free to join and take the seeds home!
Grow
Grow your seeds at home in little pots, or straight in the dirt. Watch them flourish and provide you with fresh produce!
Save
If you want to pay it forward, you can save some seeds from your plants. Don’t worry, we will have packaging available for you to use and plenty of workshops and information to help you along the way! Donate these seeds and let someone else grow them in their own garden! Or you could donate leftover seeds from any half-empty packets you might have at home.
Do you love local history?Do you want to receive local and family history content, handpicked by our local history librarians, straight to your inbox? Register your details here for our new quarterly newsletter dedicated to uncovering the past of the Casey and Cardinia regions. The newsletter will feature upcoming events and publications, historical resources and societies, and all the best tips for researching family and local history. *Sketch of Berwick Township circa 1877 - Berwick Inn bottom right corner. Image A/S27/10/77/125, State Library Victoria. 
Endeavour Hills LibraryA reminder that whilst Endeavour Hills library is getting a facelift there are still services available next door.
We have some great programs available in October at Endeavour Hills, from Watercolour for Seniors to the History of Tarot Cards with Ms Colleen. |
Reading InspirationLooking for some inspiration for your next great read? Check out our Booklists page, which has regularly updated staff picks in different fiction genres. We change up the genres to keep it fresh, with this month featuring some great stories in Mystery, Biographies, Food & Wine, Libraries and Librarians and General Fiction. See a book you like and place a hold on it straight away, it's that easy! 
Join the Library and WIN!Petra is the fifth winner of the Sid the Sloth Kids Membership Competition and loves Endeavour Hills and Bunjil Place Libraries. There is a $100 Lunar Drive Inn voucher or a $100 Toymate voucher to be won every month until December. This competition is open to NEW members or EXISTING members who refer a new member. So, what are you waiting for? New library members also get a Sid the Sloth special edition library card and bag. |
Stay Safe Online
October is Get Online Week and although many of us spend a lot of time online, we don’t all know how to keep ourselves safe.
There are many ways that our online safety can be at risk and the ways scammers do this can be subtle.
It is important for our safety and that of our families, that we keep up-to-date on the risks we face and the ways we identify and deal with them.
The library will be hosting two events on online safety, so be sure to book your place:
Staying Safe Online
Cranbourne Library
Tuesday 18 October
10am
More information and bookings
Managing Your Health Data on your iPhone or Apple Watch
Online Event
Wednesday 9 November
2pm
More information and bookings
Access Historic British Newspapers with Find My Past
Did you know you can access Historic British Newspapers, FREE of CHARGE, with your library membership?
Over 200 titles have been digitised in a partnership between the British Library and Find My Past, with more being added. Three centuries of information, from 1710 to 1953 comprising 65 million articles are at your fingertips.
Find out what was happening in the world the day you were born, or the day your grandparents were born, or what was happening during the Great Wars and other historic events, from a primary source of information.
If you want to read them all, you can but it would take the average adult 106 years (without breaks of any sort), to read them!
All you need is your current library card and be connected to the internet at your Casey Cardinia library – either on one of our PCs, or with your device connected to the library WiFi.
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Library membership is free! We do not charge overdue fines. Casey Cardinia Libraries provide public library services in Melbourne’s South East.
Our libraries are located at Cranbourne, Doveton, Emerald, Endeavour Hills, Hampton Park, Narre Warren and Pakenham. Our mobile library provides a weekly service to Bunyip, Cockatoo, Garfield, Gembrook, Koo Wee Rup, Lang Lang, Maryknoll, Nar Nar Goon, Tynong and Upper Beaconsfield.
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