General News
Card Making Club - Expressions of Interest
19 November 2008
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Do you enjoy creating your own special cards? New Card Making Clubs will be formed in 2009 at two of our libraries. If you are an adult who is interested in joining a card making group, please contact either of the following libraries: Beenleigh Library Logan West Library |
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Seniors Trivia Day
28 October 2008
With funding from the Queensland Government’s Department of Communities, the Seniors’ Week True Blue Trivia Day was the first official event held at the new Logan North Library on 27th August. Home Library patrons were the guests of honour, treated to tireless service by local Springwood High students and volunteers.
A game of trivia with questions aimed at all ages, bush poetry and a country singer entertained the large group during the highly successful event. The seniors and students had such a ball that they requested Janet Poole, the Community Services Librarian organise a similar event immediately! We will certainly plan an event for Seniors’ Week 2009.
NoveList - the fiction reader’s advisory database
28 October 2008
NoveList is a database that is designed to help you connect with great books. It allows you to enter a favourite title, or an author, series, or subject, and find an extensive listing of suggested titles that you might also enjoy. If you have a favourite genre, use NoveList to browse lists of books in that category to find authors and titles you might have missed. You can create a personal My NoveList account to save your searches and lists, and to create alerts that will notify you by email when new books by favourite authors or categories are added to the database.
Don’t forget to use the Logan library catalogue to check availability of a title of interest!
Besides helping to locate books to read, NoveList also allows you to learn more about books and authors through Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks and Reviews. It contains materials for all ages including picture books, children’s chapter books, young adult titles and books for adult readers.
$5 million Logan North Library officially opened
17 October 2008
The new $5 million Logan North Library at Underwood was officially opened last night by Logan Mayor, Councillor Pam Parker.
Cr Parker said the 1500 square metre library opened to the public on August 4, and, since then, 800 new members have joined and more than 75,000 loans have been made.
"The new library replaces the old library which had been located in rented premises at the former IKEA Centre in Springwood Road since 1996," Cr Parker said.
"With an excellent collection of resources to choose from, including expanded internet facilities, a community meeting room, drive-through stop and drop, accessibility centre, undercover parking, plasma screen with Foxtel, self-service coffee station and a community workshop area for author visits and functions, it is undoubtedly a library masterpiece.
"Council invested $5 million into the state-of-the-art library, including a $900,000 State Government subsidy, and I know the community is really excited by what we’ve created here."
Logan City Council Community, Sport and Customer Services Committee Chairperson, Councillor Hajnal Ban, said the new library demonstrated Council’s commitment to providing quality facilities to the City’s residents.
"Not many towns can boast libraries of this kind. Our libraries are some of the best in the state, thanks to the fantastic librarians on staff. We regularly host guest speakers and information sessions on a range of topics, with the most recent being a visit by author, Markus Zusak, who was incredibly popular," Cr Ban said.
"One other thing that’s great about Logan North Library in particular is the display of artwork by Zimbabwean-born local artist Tendai Chitsike. His exquisite series of sculptures have been created using recycled metal and are on display throughout the library. I’d encourage everyone who visits the library to check them out next time."
Logan North Library is located at 2-6 Sports Drive, Underwood. Phone 3412 4140.
Out of this world at Logan North Library!
17 October 2008
Come and celebrate Sci-Fi & Fantasy month at Logan North Library where we will be hosting a fun filled program throughout the month of November!
Activities include Sci-Fi writing and drawing workshops, a trivia and costume party night, Sci-Fi games, The Tolkien Society’s Portrait of J.R.R. Tolkien presentation, Women in Sci-Fi panel and a Grand Finale Sci-Fi & Fantasy day where you can have your face painted, make your own "mask" craft, games, a sausage sizzle and much much more!
Famous female authors including Marianne de Pierres, Kylie Chan and Rowena Cory Daniells let you in on what it takes to make it in a competitive Sci-Fi & Fantasy industry, while Dark Fantasy writer Jason Nahrung takes you through a "What scares you makes you stronger" writing workshop!
