Sutherland Shire Libraries News

The Children's Book Council of Australia has announced the shortlist for the 2006 Children's Book of the Year Awards. Each year the CBCA rewards outstanding Australian writing and illustration for children in 5 different categories:

Early Childhood
Younger Readers
Older Readers
Picture Book of the Year
Information Books
The winners will be announced on 18 August to launch Book Week, 19th - 25th August.
You can check out the Book Week section of our site to keep up to date with the progress of the awards as well as finding out what we are doing in the Library to celebrate (more details will be available as Book Week nears).
The Book of the year awards are a great place to start if you are looking for suggestions for good books for kids to read. The Library has many of the past winners/honour books in our collection. Use these links to browse the different categories: Picture Books, Early Childhood, younger readers, older readers and information books.

We recently held the first session in our new Rhymetime service. Rhymetime is our storytime program for babies from 6-18 months. No bookings are necessary - just show up.

Rhymetime is held at Sutherland Library on Tuesdays @ 2pm. There is limited space for pram parking so please leave prams in the car if possible.

On 31st January we introduced hold alerts via SMS. If you have provided your mobile number to us the library will send you an SMS message to notify you when you have items on hold, waiting for you to collect. If we don't have your mobile number and would like to take advantage of this service simply phone or visit any branch library and give tell us your number.

If we already have your mobile number and you don't wish to be notified by SMS let us know and we will make sure you continue to receive your hold notices in the mail.

Please note: the 60c hold fee still applies. This is an administrative fee for a personalised service. The Hold Fee includes GST and is in accordance with Sutherland Shire Council's Schedule of Fees & Charges 2005/6.

Welcome to the new Sutherland Shire Libraries Weblog. The blog is where we will be posting all the news about what's going on in the libraries around the Shire. You can find out about special events, new additions to the library collection and the web site, get tips on searching for information and generally keep up to date with with news from your local library.

We'd love to hear what you think so please comment on the posts we write and let us know how we're doing.