Library News
March Mystery Month @ Logan West!
27 February 2013Join in our myriad of mystery themed events throughout March.
Junior Fun Club will be following the clues in the Library Puzzle Hunt, and Lockdown at the Library will be a fun night for the teens with gaming, social networking and a mystery to solve.
Local author Katherine Howell will provide some insights into the writing of her murder mystery books and author, historian and speaker Jack Sim will tell some tales of historical mystery and mayhem including crimes, mysteries, ghosts and hauntings.
Join James Herbert from Financial Information Services as he unravells the mysteries of superannuation income streams.
Our Host a Murder Mystery Party requires you to solve the mystery of the whodunnit game.
Mystery fiction, true crime, mystery computer games and DVD’s will feature in special displays throughout the library.
Puzzles and crosswords, junior fun paper puzzles are all part of the fun!
A full program can be accessed from here.
Libraries and Cultural Services Indigenous Strategy Survey
21 February 2013The Libraries and Cultural Services Indigenous Strategy 2013-2018 will give direction over the next five years in ensuring services, programs, collections and spaces cater to the anticipated needs and expectations of the city’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
We want your input!
Logan City Council values your feedback.
Please provide your feedback and help influence how Libraries and Cultural Services shapes/develops the Libraries and Cultural Indigenous Strategy 2013-2018.
Please complete this survey to have your say in the Libraries and Cultural Services you want!
If you require any assistance completing the survey, or you would like a hard copy of the survey mailed to you, please contact Debra Cooper, Regional Librarian, Logan Central Library on (07) 3412 4102.
Reading: a lifelong journey that starts at home
25 January 2013Reading changes lives…
The video clips below provided by Logan City Council Libraries show how babies and toddlers can become readers for life. By following some quick and easy steps, parents and carers learn how, when and where to read to their baby or child. The video clips include tips on choosing books, and how bedtime is easier with books.
1. Introduction: Reading is a gift for life
2. Books & Babies: Never too early to start
3. Toddler: Jumping into reading
4. Early Reader: The next big step
5. Logan City Council Libraries
Mayor’s Reading Challenge
16 November 2012
This year Logan City Council Libraries are proud to run the Mayor’s Reading Challenge, in partnership with Education Queensland, to encourage the love of reading. Families that read together create future readers.
Aims of the Challenge include:
- Encouraging young people to read.
- Encouraging children, young people and their families to use their local library.
- Developing literacy and numeracy skills.
- Fostering a love of books, reading, literature and developing the library habit.
All children from birth to Year 6 are encouraged to complete the Challenge.
- 0 – 5 (with support of family members/carers);
- Prep – Yr 3 (with support of family members/carers);
- Yr 4 – Yr 6
Young people in Grades 7 – 12 can enter the Summer Read Book Trailer and Book Review Competition, advertised in the What’s On booklet, Library website and flyers.
The Mayor’s Reading Challenge opens on December 3, 2012 and closes February 8, 2013, and registration is available online or by visiting one of Logan’s nine libraries.
More details are available in the Mayor’s Reading Challenge booklet, and the Reading Log.
Libraries & Cultural Services Volunteer Survey
13 November 2012Logan City Council’s Libraries & Cultural Services Branch employs around 200 volunteers who provide a range of valuable services. These include: assistance at the Logan Art Gallery and Mayes Cottage; delivery of books to housebound borrowers, adult literacy tutoring; computer skills training for seniors, genealogy research, homework help for school students, and musical accompaniment at story time sessions.
The Libraries & Cultural Services Volunteer Strategy is a project which will inform how we recruit, train, retain, recognise and make best use of current and future volunteers working for Logan City Council’s Libraries & Cultural Services. Data for this project will be gathered through community consultation, such as this survey, and additional research.
We want your input! Whether or not you currently volunteer, we would like your feedback about volunteering.
Please fill in this survey to have your say!
Volunteer Strategy Feedback Survey
If you have any questions regarding this survey, please call Rani McLennan, Libraries Administration Officer on 3412 4147.
