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

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

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.

Christmas at the Library

The Library will be closed from 4pm Christmas Eve and will open on Tuesday 4th January at 10am. All the staff at the library wish you a safe and merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2011.

Children's Book Week is over for another year...

Who’s that crossing my bridge? Grrrrrr!!!
Library patrons were frequently startled by this cry as they entered the library a couple of weeks ago. The ugly troll barking more questions at some rather excited groups of schoolchildren may have hinted at what was going on perhaps.
It was Children’s Book Week of course and with this years’ theme being “Across the story bridge” entry to the library via a special bridge complete with resident troll was how Leeton Shire Library began to celebrate.
Over one thousand schoolchildren and preschoolers braved the cold weather – and the troll – to come and celebrate this important week with us. They entertained us with their wonderful dramatic renditions of “The three billy goats gruff”, listened to one or two stories and searched the library for bridge related clues to enter our competition.
Awards were handed out as well to the schools who entered our Book Week poster competition with the trophy for best display awarded to Yanco Public School. Their fabulous artworks certainly added to the air of excitement in the library during the week.
It’s always an exhausting week with all staff declaring ‘never again’ when it’s over but of course it only takes a day or two before we are checking out next year’s theme and wondering what we will do.

Children's Book Week is over for another year...

Who’s that crossing my bridge? Grrrrrr!!!
Library patrons were frequently startled by this cry as they entered the library a couple of weeks ago. The ugly troll barking more questions at some rather excited groups of schoolchildren may have hinted at what was going on perhaps.
It was Children’s Book Week of course and with this years’ theme being “Across the story bridge” entry to the library via a special bridge complete with resident troll was how Leeton Shire Library began to celebrate.
Over one thousand schoolchildren and preschoolers braved the cold weather – and the troll – to come and celebrate this important week with us. They entertained us with their wonderful dramatic renditions of “The three billy goats gruff”, listened to one or two stories and searched the library for bridge related clues to enter our competition.
Awards were handed out as well to the schools who entered our Book Week poster competition with the trophy for best display awarded to Yanco Public School. Their fabulous artworks certainly added to the air of excitement in the library during the week.
It’s always an exhausting week with all staff declaring ‘never again’ when it’s over but of course it only takes a day or two before we are checking out next year’s theme and wondering what we will do.

First Friday Book Club

First Friday book group meet at the library this morning. They are discussing the book " Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen, should be a good discussion. Why not come along? As well as the book everyone reads ,we also discuss what everyone has been reading in the past month and get suggestions for book group reads, lots of laughing and sharing! All welcome 10.30