Jam packed program

Naracoorte Library offering something for everyone

Beck Eley is the new Naracoorte Library manager and she is looking to remind people just what the newly redeveloped facility offers. Along with the regular events on the library’s program, there is also the special events, similar to last week’s author visit from Victoria Purman (pictured top right) as part of her tour of the region promoting her latest book – A Woman’s Work.

It focuses on the astonishingly rich prize of the 1956 Australian Women’s Weekly cookery competition, telling a story of two women offered the possibility of a new kind of future, in this compassionate look at the extraordinary lives of ordinary women – our mothers and grandmothers – in a beautifully realised post-war Australia.

The library also sees itself very much as a community facility, geared to bringing the community together and last week, the regular program Bat Cave Babies had some special guests – residents from Longridge Residential Care Home, sharing a cake and a chat (pictured cente right).

Bat Cave Baies is run every Thursday at 9.30am and is a gentle session, combining songs, movement, and actions for babies up to 18 months.

Another popular weekly program at the Naracoorte Library is Digital Lessons, which is held every Thursday at 10am, aiming to build IT confidence and knowledge in the 0ver 50s in terms of learning their way around Android and Apple phones and tablets.

There is also a weekly LEGO Club on Fridays at 3.45pm, as well as Virtual Reality Sessions that can be booked through the library allowing you to access a variety of experiences through the new Occulus headsets and a Knitting Cluib (pictured bottom right).

And the library still has a focus on books, and its Teen Book Club is an example of that, meeting the third Thursday of every month at 6pm. The Council of Book Lovers is aimed at 13-19 year olds.

The library has also embraced History Month which runs for the entirety of May and will be joining National Simultaneous Storytime at 10.30am this Wednesday, where Speedy Sloth is the book of choice and the reading will be followed by a craft activity.

The library is also hosting an Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea on Thursday at 10am so bring a plate and donate to a create cause – the work of the Cancer Council.

In what is a busy week, the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood Pop-up Donor Centre will be at Naracoorte Town Hall until Thursday.

Call the library on(08)8762 2338 for more information and follow the Naracoorte Library + Town Hall Facebook page for regular updates.