What a busy month we have had.
During our first week we celebrated Family History Week with seminars each afternoon on researching your family tree. We explored various aspects including on-line information.
During this week we also held our very special "Bob the Builder" storytime. Working with the Engineering department we held three sessions at the High School Ovals. The children were treated to songs, stories and a demonstration of the big trucks. The children were delighted to be allowed to climb up in the big machines. The engineering department did a fine display that held the kids in awe.
The chess club finished their annual competition and were awarded medals last week. The children continue to come socialise and learn each Thursday afternoon.
Last week Friends of the Leeton Library held a "Flower Power" themed trivia afternoon. Everyone had fun. Perhaps you would like to join us on our next Trivia afternoon in October.
This week is Childrens' Book Week. The library staff has transformed the library into Mexico, the Netherlands and an African jungle. The children were 'flown' by a rather inept pilot to the Library where they discovered the wonders of the Library and Book Week.
On top of all this we also held Cuddle-up and Read, Kids Klub, Saturday Book Chair, First Friday Book Club and the Leeton Knitters' Thursday mornings.....phew!
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Family History Week
Have you always wanted to start your family tree but don't know where to start?
Are you stuck with with your family history research and need some ideas about where to look next?
Then maybe the library can help you out. We will be celebrating Family History Week from August 1st - 5th with some introductory sessions to get you started. Once you are hooked we will be running monthly sessions on various genealogy related topics for family historians.
Free half hour seminars will be available at the library during Family History Week.
Every day at 2.30pm
Monday 1st. Getting started on your family tree.
Tuesday 2nd. Family history - how the library can help your search.
Wednesday 3rd Family history on the internet.
Thursday 4th A look at Ancestry.com
Friday 5th Trove - a great resource.
Phone the library 69530945 to let us know you are attending.
Are you stuck with with your family history research and need some ideas about where to look next?
Then maybe the library can help you out. We will be celebrating Family History Week from August 1st - 5th with some introductory sessions to get you started. Once you are hooked we will be running monthly sessions on various genealogy related topics for family historians.
Free half hour seminars will be available at the library during Family History Week.
Every day at 2.30pm
Monday 1st. Getting started on your family tree.
Tuesday 2nd. Family history - how the library can help your search.
Wednesday 3rd Family history on the internet.
Thursday 4th A look at Ancestry.com
Friday 5th Trove - a great resource.
Phone the library 69530945 to let us know you are attending.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Bookends
The library currently has a number of sets of bookends on display - with many thanks to those who have kindly loaned them to us for a time. Everyone is welcome to come and have a look.
What is it about bookends that appeals to us? What do we know about bookends? Here are some things about bookends you may not know -
A bookend is one of the simplest and most decorative machines invented, with a base and an upright, its weight intended to create a force to resist movement.
Just before last Christmas American artist Jeff Koons, famous for his shiny animal sculptures sent cease and desist letters to San Francisco art gallery and store, Park Life, because they were selling balloon-shaped animal bookends.
Bookends emerged as household objects in the 1870s, when books became cheap enough to be bought by the emerging middle class.
After World War II, aluminium, a product of aircraft technology, was widely recycled for bookends. This was also the peak period for ceramic bookends.
There is a theory that the popularity of Penguin paperbacks in the 1930s inspired a fad for smaller, lighter bookends.
Specific bookend collectors may place sentimental value on something kitsch, such as a pair of Mexicans sleeping under sombreros or some dancing penguins, two of the more popular themes in Australia during the 1950s and '60s.
A pair of actual saltwater crocodile heads, mouths wide open, transformed into a spectacular pair of bookends were sold in Darwin in the 1970s.
In Adelaide an enterprising gentleman engaged a modeller to make plaster masks of himself and his wife which were mounted on highly polished wood plinths for use as bookends.
Mulga wood bookends were often the preferred gift for visitors to Australia and there are numerous reports of Ambassadors and other officials receiving bookends on their departure.
In 1929, “Booklovers”, an American talkie, told the story of two carved bookends coming to life.
A theft of bookends in Tasmania made the local papers when a man was convicted and fined five pounds for stealing, along with other items, a pair of bookends.
Chameleon like in nature, bookends take many forms including, fictional characters, writers, composers, clowns, children, elephants, dogs, lions, galleons, globes and even books.
With no recommended height bookends vary in size and are found in metal, stone, marble, wood, glass, ceramic, bakelite, plaster, plastic and resin. Chryselephantine and chrome indicate the Art Deco period while pressed wood was popular in the 1940s and Mulga wood was popular in Australia from the late 1920s to the 1970s.
In 1932 The Brisbane Courier reported bookends had taken over from toast racks as the most popular wedding gift.
What is it about bookends that appeals to us? What do we know about bookends? Here are some things about bookends you may not know -
A bookend is one of the simplest and most decorative machines invented, with a base and an upright, its weight intended to create a force to resist movement.
Just before last Christmas American artist Jeff Koons, famous for his shiny animal sculptures sent cease and desist letters to San Francisco art gallery and store, Park Life, because they were selling balloon-shaped animal bookends.
Bookends emerged as household objects in the 1870s, when books became cheap enough to be bought by the emerging middle class.
After World War II, aluminium, a product of aircraft technology, was widely recycled for bookends. This was also the peak period for ceramic bookends.
There is a theory that the popularity of Penguin paperbacks in the 1930s inspired a fad for smaller, lighter bookends.
Specific bookend collectors may place sentimental value on something kitsch, such as a pair of Mexicans sleeping under sombreros or some dancing penguins, two of the more popular themes in Australia during the 1950s and '60s.
A pair of actual saltwater crocodile heads, mouths wide open, transformed into a spectacular pair of bookends were sold in Darwin in the 1970s.
In Adelaide an enterprising gentleman engaged a modeller to make plaster masks of himself and his wife which were mounted on highly polished wood plinths for use as bookends.
Mulga wood bookends were often the preferred gift for visitors to Australia and there are numerous reports of Ambassadors and other officials receiving bookends on their departure.
In 1929, “Booklovers”, an American talkie, told the story of two carved bookends coming to life.
A theft of bookends in Tasmania made the local papers when a man was convicted and fined five pounds for stealing, along with other items, a pair of bookends.
Chameleon like in nature, bookends take many forms including, fictional characters, writers, composers, clowns, children, elephants, dogs, lions, galleons, globes and even books.
With no recommended height bookends vary in size and are found in metal, stone, marble, wood, glass, ceramic, bakelite, plaster, plastic and resin. Chryselephantine and chrome indicate the Art Deco period while pressed wood was popular in the 1940s and Mulga wood was popular in Australia from the late 1920s to the 1970s.
In 1932 The Brisbane Courier reported bookends had taken over from toast racks as the most popular wedding gift.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
50 years of knitting
Knitting seems to have been newsworthy in Leeton for some time now. Our library knitters were featured in the Irrigator last week as they showed off the rugs and squares they have been knitting for the Wrap With Love charity.
50 years ago on the front page of the Murrumbidgee Irrigator - July 4, 1941 one of the headlines was Red Cross Comforts - Competition for Knitters. Knitters were encouraged to get the needles out and start knitting comforts for the soldiers. Mrs Luhrs donated the first prize of 10/- to go to the person who knitted up the greatest number of skeins of wool. A second prize of 5/- was donated by Mrs H. Ross. The competition was expected to bring knitting needles into top speed and create friendly rivalry among the "knitter bugs".
50 years ago on the front page of the Murrumbidgee Irrigator - July 4, 1941 one of the headlines was Red Cross Comforts - Competition for Knitters. Knitters were encouraged to get the needles out and start knitting comforts for the soldiers. Mrs Luhrs donated the first prize of 10/- to go to the person who knitted up the greatest number of skeins of wool. A second prize of 5/- was donated by Mrs H. Ross. The competition was expected to bring knitting needles into top speed and create friendly rivalry among the "knitter bugs".
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Rug Display
The knitters' morning tea was a great success. (Well they didn't go home til 3o'clock!) The display of blankets will stay up in the library for another week so make sure you come in and have a look. So far this year they've knitted and put together 67 blankets! A remarkable achievement
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Shortest day morning tea
Come and join the LEETON LIBRARY KNITTERS for a morning tea and rug display on Thursday 23rd June at 10.30.
Just after the shortest day of the year so there'll be lots of delicious cakes and coffee to warm you up.
All welcome, gold coin donation
Just after the shortest day of the year so there'll be lots of delicious cakes and coffee to warm you up.
All welcome, gold coin donation
Sunday, May 8, 2011
A mousey tale
Having trouble with mice? The library has definitely been dealing with these pesky little rodents lately but mice have been a problem on and off in the area for years and 1970 was one particularly bad year.
According to an article in The Murrumbidgee Irrigator on Wednesday, April 15 1970 the students at Yanco Agricultural High School came up with a novel way to deal with the problem.
In one and a half hours one Sunday they managed to wipe out over 2,000 of the furry critters in a school mouse-a-thon. Run as a house competition, the students set out armed with sticks, boards, pieces of hose, buckets of water and other elaborate weapons to see how many dead mice they could bring back after the allotted time.
The students had already been catching an average of 200 mice per day with tallies being kept in each dorm. The record was held by one of the senior dorms which caught 208 mice in one night.
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