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This is a great website I discovered a couple months ago and have been using ever since. It allows you to keep a track of all the books in your own personal library. There are also extra features that allow you to catalogue your books for easy searching, review books you liked (or didn't like) and get recommendations based on the books in your library. You can also share your library and check out the books other people read*, or join an online bookclub.

I use the website all the time, and love the fact that it will recommend books. And many of the recommendations so far are for books I actually went on to read.

For more information check out the website: http://www.librarything.com/. Just look around, or take the "tour". Or just ask one of the library ladies- we'll be able to show you all the best features.



*There will be some eerily similar libraries to your own.

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My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, then that is out.

— The Poet at the Breakfast Table
Oliver Wendell HOLMES (1809-1894)

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Enter our new comp and win lots of chocolate!!

On the big display board at the front of the library, we've pinned up 50 pictures of TV shows that were prominant during the 80s. Write down as many as you know to have a chance to win a block of chocolate.

There are also a number of supplementary questions to answer if you're brave enough-yell the catchcry of one character, or sing the theme song of another.... You could win a freddo frog for each of the extra questions you get correct.
We dare you.


The competition will be running all month.

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Thankyou to everyone who turned up to hear Anita Bell speak last thursday night. The evening was very successful, despite going longer than anyone anticipated*. Every report has been positive, with many wanting to know when the next author event will be**. Please keep telling what the talk was all about, as we spent the whole night serving drinks and standing behind the counter and babysitting, and never actually got to hear Anita talk. And if you could also keep telling us how much you enjoyed the night and how "beneficial" it was from a "community perspective" it might help us convince the necessary people to let us do it again. :P





All in all, a great night out. And thanks again to all who attended.









*Because so many people where almost too interested and kept asking questions. But at least we know it wasn't boring.



**We don't know- we've never done this before! (at least not to this extent.) But fingers crossed that we might be able to do it more often.

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