Scinema at Frankston Library

Travelling Festival of Science Film

Take off into realms of wonder with the Scinema science film festival. From the Big Bang in 4.5 minutes to Charles Darwin, neurotic aliens to biomedical research, we present a program of short science films over 3 big, free sessions at the Frankston Library.
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When: Take a seat for a while or just drop in.
- Saturday, 15 August, 930am to 3.30pm
- Tuesday, 18 August, 6:30pm to 8.30pm
- Thursday, 20 August, 6:30pm to 8.30pm

Where: Frankston Library's Long Room

Cost: Free!

Here's the complete program:

Saturday, 15 August 9:30am to 3.30pm
The good heart attack 7 mins
The resurrection of dead dogs in Russia in the 1930s. An unstoppable heart in the US half a century later. And now in London, a hand-made heart attack. How a strange, paradoxical discovery is helping to save lives.

Darwin on the evolution trail 10 mins
Curious by nature, the young Charles Darwin embarks on a voyage around the world. At that time he was not to know that it was to be the beginning of a sensational scientific breakthrough.

Reading the book of life 30 mins
Tells the story of the race to sequence the human genome and what the sequence first revealed.

A lasting desire to last 52 mins
The story of a woman who takes a sometimes humorous approach to investigating the reasons behind the ageing process and the various possible ways of slowing it down.

Science fiction, science fact 6 mins
Whether it is Star Trek's USS Enterprise, or the iconic space station in 2001: A Space Odyssey, science fiction has always provided inspiration and ideas for the scientists and engineers that design and build real pace craft.

Blood, tears and sweat 5 mins
A series of short films inspired by biomedical research.

Why is science important? 29 mins
Science teacher Alom Shaha goes on a quest to answer the question 'Why is science important?'

Sound waves 5 mins
A series of short films inspired by biomedical research.

Naturally obsessed: the making of a scientist 60 mins
Mixing humour with heartbreak, Naturally obsessed tells a profoundly real yet intensely dramatic story about 3 irrepressible student scientists.

Dish communication 7 mins
At a remote radio dish, Professor Quintaine searches for signals from outer space while Rose the cleaner searches for signals from Professor Quintaine. A signal comes – but it’s from angry intergalactic neighbours. Will these two be able to save the world?

Alienation 5 mins
Aliens discover a previously inhabited planet we know as Mars. They decide its not worth colonising and will seek elsewhere. Earth beckons.

The little street called the Milky Way 3 mins
Fact file of each planet in the solar system.

Universal surprise 6 mins
A neurotic alien is preparing for a welcome party for the lunar Mars mission explorers.

The ingredients for life 31 mins
If man is to live in space and travel to other planets, we must learn how to survive for long periods of time out there: we have to recreate in space the vital ingredients for life on Earth.

The creation of the moon 2 mins
Two planets orbit the sun and then collide. One planet gets destroyed and bits come off the other planet and they join to form the moon.

Big bang 4.5 mins
The Big Bang, light o' energy, radiate, compound, evolve, compose and create stars, planets and Gaia (Earth).

Space Transportation: an ATV perspective 32 mins
ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) mission is used to explain concepts like orbital mechanics, propulsion and satellite navigation.

Tuesday, 18 August 6:30pm to 8.30pm

Planet Earth 5 mins
An introduction to the Earth.

O as origin 8mins
Piccolina, the little water molecule, recounts the exciting story of the formation of our planet Eearth and the emergence of life.

Big bang in Tunguska 45 mins
On 30 June 1908, the largest explosion recorded in human history reverberated round the planet. The force of the explosion, 2,000 times that of the Hiroshima bomb, destroyed in the Siberian woodland area the size of Luxemburg. What happened?

Two planets, one future 6 mins
In a small town in country Western Australia 4 young teens are studying and practicing techniques used to prepare for future space exploration.

What on earth is wrong with gravity 49 mins
Dr Brian Cox goes in search to understand the nature of gravity.

Thursday, 20 August 6:30pm to 8.30pm
Look! Up in the sky!5 mins
This film about the Woomera Test Facility in South Australia celebrates the dreams of the many scientists who launched Australia into the space race.

The moving Earth 52 mins
In 1453, the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the prevailing view of the world. He claimed that the Earth was not the immovable centre of the universe, but a planet in orbit around the sun. To the Christian church this was heresy that contradicted the holy word.

400 Years of the telescope 60 mins
Telescopes have expanded our vision and knowledge of our spectacular universe. Here's the story of how what we see beyond Earth challenges and changes the human perspective.

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Blackhawks, stone roses and green blood

Melbourne Writers Festival.

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Where stories meet

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Round 17 round up

wendy's hit the ton
wendy's consistency at successful tipping has her the first to reach the notable 100 mark (something that some of us will not make this season at all). Meanwhile, something happened that saw Refgurl pick just 3 wins, elevating Scott's lucky coin tossing to 2nd place. As we draw near the end, the pack that forms the top 9 behind wendy is a volatile place to be.

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Where are Frankston's CDs?

Ask
The music shelves at Frankston are currently looking depleted, but don't panic. No, we haven't suddenly let people borrow 50 CDs at once. It's all got to do with our change-over to RFID technology.

While we process the CDs into new RFID cases, they will temporarily go into what's called on the catalogue "Stock maintenance." As they're still for loan, please ask us at the desk to summon them from our back room for you to borrow.

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Nougat at the Coffee Cart

Three exciting flavours!
Vanilla Pistachio, Chocolate Pistachio and Cherry Cranberry creamy soft French-style nougat are now available at Frankston Library's coffee cart. Only $1.50.

Yum.

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Customer feedback for June 2009

Humans are complex

June's customer feedback confirms this.

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Join us

Marketing Assistant wanted
The Frankston Library Service is in need of a Marketing Assistant to help with our promotional efforts.
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If you've got a talent for graphics, you're an outgoing people person and need the work, then take a look at the position description and decide if the job fits.
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You've got until 31 July to apply - and you can do that via Seek, too.
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Round 16 round up

"Curse those damnable Hawks!"*
The top 8 tipped accordingly, with seven 7s and one 8 (well done customer Mollyfud). The difference between a 7 and an 8 in each case was the Pies' loss to the Hawks. Yep, we're back on the Hawks bandwagon; although, they do play the Cats this weekend. Will it be another 2008 Premiership-like boil over? My nails are shortening.

*To quote Scott_Info
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Vale Frank McCourt

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Frank McCourt
author of the moving memoirs
Angela's Ashes, Tis and Teacher Man

1930-2009

R.I.P.

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We're in the news!

Front page and online
The Frankston Independent's coverage of last week's official launch of the refurbished Frankston Library has a nice photo of the Minister and the boss, plus some basic info on the improvements made.

Note that we normally call the "new sound-deadening plastic phone booths" space chairs.

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PS: There's also an official state government media release.

E-tax demo update

Two into one
Unfortunately, we've have had to cancel the 1st of our ATO E-tax classes.

The session on 28 July, 10 – 11am, at Frankston Library is still on.

Please RSVP the Library on 9784 1020 if you are coming.

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Reservations email issue

Insert email fail whale here
Due to an errant email server, emailed reservation notices have not gone out between the 30th of June and the 20th of July. If you are expecting a reservation, please login to your membership and check if it's ready to pick up. If an allocated (ie, waiting to be picked up) reserve has expired during this time, please let us know and we'll do what we can to get it ready for you to pick up again.

This only effects email reservations, not SMS or mail.

We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused.

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Apollo

It was 40 years ago today that
Sgt. Pepper taught a couple of blokes
to walk on the Moon.

It was big at the time.

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Breastfeeding meeting at Frankston

Australian Breastfeeding Association meeting

The Frankston Breastfeeding group will meet at the
Frankston Library on Friday 17th July at 10am.

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The meeting will include a book reading with Kerry.

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The Australian Breastfeeding Association is a group
run for and by its volunteer members,
to provide breastfeeding information and support from
mum to mum.

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All breastfeeding mums and kids and mums to be welcome.

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Get the Library toolbar

Easier access to your favourite Library
The Frankston Library Service (FLS) is proud to offer to our customers a web browser toolbar that speeds access to the Library's online resources

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The toolbar installs in seconds and places key Library links in your line of sight, replacing all those FLS bookmarks hidden in drop down menus. There are links to favourites like the catalogue, what's on, new for loan and, of course, the Blogalogue.

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It also features a Google search box that includes links to the catalogue, the ANZ Reference Centre and other Library databases in your search results.
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There's even an online radio tuner and current Frankston weather. If you don't want these, you can delete them and add your own features, like games, video, news gadgets.

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The Frankston Library Service - making life easier.

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Live music: July - December 09

Upcoming live music

26 July- Martian Time
9 August - Banjo Vincent
23 August - Nathan Islip
13 September - Brad Matton
27 September - Chris Fatouros
11 October - Eric Parker
22 November Mojo Pearls
12 July - Luke & Jen
13 December - Ree Liddel

Sundays, 1:30pm-3:00pm at the Library Lounge, Frankston Library

The Frankston Library Service supports local music.

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Free tax help

Learn about E-tax
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will demonstrate how you can quickly and efficiently use E-tax to help you prepare your income tax return and baby bonus claim, and then lodge your 2008-2009 tax return online.

Date: Tuesday, 28 July
Time: 10.00am - 11.00am
Place: Frankston Library
Bookings required: 9784 1020

Please note that this is a demonstration only and that E-tax cannot be used on the Library's public PCs

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It's cold, dark and wet outside

But it's none of the above
@ your library!

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Round 15 round up

Fractals
The role of chaos theory in sporting competitions is little known. Take some recent disorderly results from the AFL for example. The Dees ("Ra! Ra!" says Sir Lord Harper) have won 2 in a row, which is more than the number of goals that Freeo could score in 4 quarters last weekend. The Saints have won 15 consecutive matches, but the Cats have lost 2 in successive weeks. It's worse than trying to beat the call on the toss of a coin, an analogy which was statistically matched by our top 2 competition leaders who merely broke even while muddy60 and bluesgal nearly took the cake with 7 each. Even librarytart, who's name has never been mentioned in the same breath as any football code until this year, is beating the odds into 5th place. Chaos, you see! Sheer oval pandemonium.



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Families with pre-schoolers reading survey

Young Readers survey

The Victorian Government, in collaboration with public libraries, is seeking information about the reading habits and behaviours of families with pre-school children

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The survey takes about 5 minutes and once completed participants are eligible to enter the prize draw for a pack of children’s books valued at over $500.
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The survey runs until 28 August, 2009, and will help libraries to provide better support for parents, carers and professionals in encouraging children to develop an enjoyment of reading.

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Blogalogue access crisis!

To quote Blogger:

"Some users are seeing an 'Operation Aborted' error message when trying to load their blogs from Internet Explorer. We're looking into this and will update this message when we have a fix. We apologize for the inconvenience."

The difficulty seems to appear when attempting to access an individual post, like one that is directly linked to or when trying to leave a comment. It also appears to be an Internet Explorer [IE] specific issue, so if you access using another browser like Firefox, then it's not a problem. I've also found that updating to the latest version of IE reduces the frequency of the jarring halt to proceedings.

As Blogger's Known Issues blog states: we apologize for the inconvenience.

Note that a version of most posts can also be found on the Library's Facebook page.

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Ancestry family tree database

Ancestry
now available

Access to the Ancestry online genealogy database
is one of the holy grails of family tree researchers.

Ancestry features genealogy resources from around the world,
including births, deaths and marriages, census and military records,
court, land and probate records, church and cemetery records,
directories, electoral rolls, immigration and passenger lists and
even U.S. school yearbook photos!

You can now access Ancestry from the public PCs at the
Frankston and Carrum Downs libraries
via our Online Information page;
but first, book a computer.

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Twilight competition

Win a Twilight saga boxed set!

We are giving two lucky library members their own boxed set of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight books.

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When library members aged between 13 and 18 borrow until 29 July from the Frankston and Carrum Downs libraries, they can fill out an entry form and pop it in the entry box. Teens can enter each time they borrow.

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There will be one winner from both the Frankston and Carrum Downs libraries. Winners will be notified by phone by Friday, 31 July.

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Late opening Tuesday, 7 July

Monthly training session means
late start!

The Frankston Library will open at 12 noon
and the Carrum Downs Library will open at 1pm
on Tuesday, 7 July due to team training.

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Round 14 round up

Footy never ceases to amaze
The Dees won a game, the Saints beat the Cats to win 14 in a row (I was hoping for a draw - nearly was, too) and wendy is now, like St Kilda, a clear leader on top of the ladder. Judging by the scores, with bluesgal's 6 winning the round (go Blues, eh?), it was a difficult one to tip.
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RECHARGE at the library

Plug in and power up

The Frankston Library Service is part of the expanding power grid for people who drive electric mobility scooters.

To help scooter drivers access the juice they need to get out and about and back home, the RECHARGE scheme provides designated locations to plug in and charge up depleted batteries.

Both the Frankston and Carrum Downs libraries have power

points labeled for RECHARGE (see the blue sticker, right) and are among a number of locations across the municiplaity to provide this service.

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So now there's another way for library users to recharge their batteries!

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Librarians season 2

Middleton Interactive re-opens
Impressed by the success of their 6 part documentary on our Middleton Interactive Learning Centre branch, ABC-TV crews recently returned to update the story.


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How would you like your book?

Let's count the ways
The printed book has become just one platform among many to access a published text. Recently, academic and author Dr Ann Kirschner put four ways of reading Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit to the test, reading via print, audiobook, Kindle ebook reader and iPhone. Along the way she found herself asking the question: Do I love books or do I love reading?

You can find out what Anne discovered Reading Dickens Four Ways in the article format or hear her in conversation with The Book Show's Romana Koval.

The Blogalogue's new poll asks you how you like your books.

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