Where were we when man landed on the moon?

Last week saw the 40th anniversary of man's first footsteps on the moon. The library celebrated this momentous event with a small display and an invitation to our patrons to tell us what they were doing on that day. Here are some of the responses that were posted on our wall:

With both my parents in the lounge of the family home in Liverpool eating a chocolate paddle pop. I was actually "scared" something would go wrong - and the world was over.

In a school room in Dapto, Wollongong watching with lots of
other students.

I was in year 6 and we got sent home to watch the landing on TV.

Raising babies - listening on radio.

Watched it on TV with babies. Took a photo slide of it which I still have.

Was at college football training when announced over PA -"if you want to see the moon landing go to the TV room now!"

At work, no TV - but someone brought a radio. We all kept congregating in the office when exciting bits happened. Watched it later that night.

Crowded into a small school hall with the entire school watching the event on a tiny TV for hours waiting for something to happen . Better than the classroom though!

Changing a nappy...

I was in working in Amco Jeans Plant at Yennora NSW and heard about it on the radio.

I was in the Transport Dept. in darwin listening to the radio with 30 other people. (No TV in darwin till 1970)

I was sitting in my lounge room in front of an Astor TV with my family when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

Mr Magic came to the library

Leeton's kids were treated to an hour of magic and fun with Mr Magic at the library at our first school holiday activity for the July break. A big group turned up for the show and were well entertained by Mr Magic and his friends Sooty and Pinky. Coloured lemonade, cakes in hats and disappearing rabbits were all part of the fun at this very successful afternoon.

We have a few photos on Flickr. Click on the link below to check them out....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24515188@N08/sets/72157621359872367/

Where were you when man landed on the moon?

Thursday 16th July is the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 11 Mission.

The Apollo 11 mission was launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon.

What were you doing that day? Did you watch the landing? Were you even born then? Tell us about it.

Attention all genealogists

We now subscribe to the library edition of the popular Ancestry.com to give you access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research. With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4000 databases Ancestry Library Edition includes records from Australian electoral rolls, passenger lists, vital and church records, British and US Census, land and probate records and much more.
Come into the library to access this great collection from any of our public access computers.

July Storytime celebrates Naidoc week.

The theme for storytime in July at the Library is 'The Rainbow Serpent' which we are running in cooperation with the Leeton & district Local Aboriginal LAnd Council as part of the celebrations for Naidoc Week 2009.
This year Naidoc Week runs from July 5th - 12th with the theme 'Honouring our Elders, Nurturing our Youth". To embrace this theme we have invited a local Aboriginal community representative to read at our storytime with related storis and craft.

Impact - a changing land

"Throughout the history of European settlement in Australia, there have been people who cared for, and worked to protect, the land. Their actions form a long, encouraging thread through the story of our relationship with the environment. This exhibition shows some of the history that has led to the current state of the environment in New South Wales, and in other parts of Australia. Human impact is demonstrated here in four places: City, Coast, River and Island."
State Library of NSW website as at 3/12/07.

We have this new display in the library. Come in to the foyer and have a look.

Take a brochure and watch the DVD presentation for more information.

Book Sale

The Friends of Leeton Library book sale was a great success. Hundreds of books, videos, hear a books and at least one thousand magazines ( or maybe it only seemed like that many!) were sold to happy customers. All the Charles Dickens went early but L. Ron Hubbard failed to move at all. Lots of children came in with their parents and went away happily with armloads of books. Having the sale over 2 days in 2 meeting rooms was a good idea as everyone had plenty of time and room to browse. The Friends are to be commended for all their hard work preparing the books for sale and carrying and stacking and pricing and selling and packing up the few tatty left overs for recycling. They are having a break from fundraising for now and are moving on to sponsor our winter reading programme. More about the programme in a later post.