Hugo Awards!

The winners of the 2010 Hugo Awards have been announced.

Congratulations to the joint best novel winners, China Mieville for The City and the City, and Paolo Bacigalupi with The Windup Girl.

In other areas Doctor Who has continued to dominate the Dramatic presentation, short form category, while Moon has been declared the best film of the year, taking Best dramatic presentation, long form.

You can see the full list of winners on the official Hugo Awards site, or indeed the full set of nominees.

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Library Closed 5th of October.

Library Closure, 05/10/10.

This coming Tuesday, October the fifth, Frankston and Carrum Downs branches will be closed for staff training. Return chutes will be closed for the day. However, the Langwarrin and Seaford shops will be operating as usual and will be more than happy to assist you should you need to return items on the day.



Contact details for the two branches can be found here.

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Art For Loan is almost here!

Art for loan available soon.

Frankston library is working with local artists to bring you Art for Loan. Paintings and photographic prints will be available to borrow through the Frankston Library.

Here's how it works:

• Sign up as an Art for Loan member - we require a one-off $50.00 payment to sign you up for the program.


• Browse art for loan in our catalogue.


• Place reservations on the items you wish to borrow.


• The artist will deliver the items to the library for you to collect.


• Loans will be for 8 weeks with an option for a one off renewal of 4 weeks.


• Maximum of two pieces on loan at any time.

Interested parties will be able to contact the Library for purchase of artwork. The artist and buyer will negotiate between themselves regarding the cost and related arrangements.

Keep an eye out in the coming weeks for the date of our Big Launch.

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Victorian Premiers Literary Awards 2010 shortlist

Borrow the best

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards honours and rewards literary achievement by Australian writers. Here's the highlights from this year's shorlist that you can borrow.

The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

• Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
• The Bath Fugues by Brian Castro
• Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
• Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
• Truth by Peter Temple

The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction

• Popeye Never Told You: Childhood Memories of the War by Rodney Hall
• Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter by Maria Tumarkin
• Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a Life by Brenda Walker

The Prize for Indigenous Writing

• Legacy, Larissa Behrendt
• Ten Hail Marys, Kate Howarth
• Hey Mum, What’s a Half-Caste?, Lorraine McGee-Sippel

The Young Adult Fiction Prize

• Raw Blue, Kirsty Eagar
• Beatle Meets Destiny, Gabrielle Williams

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Frankston's August feedback

Good to great

A good library is always a work in progress, as can be seen by Frankston's customer feedback for August and our response to what our customers are telling us.

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Access all areas

Search across databases

You can now access all the library's resources from one place. The E-Library page features a search box which enables you to find text (from books, newspapers and magazines), video and image resources from the catalogue and our online databases, plus Google Books and YouTube.

To expand our limit your search to specific databases, use the Choose Databases link near the Search button on the results screen. You can also limit results by year or publication. Once you have a search you like, you can even create a permanent link to return to it later.

This resource is great for anyone doing research for work, study or personal interest.

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September school holiday fun

Bookings now open

Come and join in the fun activities at your local library this school holidays. Here's what's on:

• KiddyRock Music Workshop, 21 September, ages 3-5
• Make an animal memo holder, 22 September,
  ages 5-12
• Tiny Tots Stoyrtime, 28 September, ages 0-2
• KiddyRock Music Workshop, 28 September, ages 3-5
• Make an animal memo holder, 29 September,
  ages 5-12

Please follow each event's link for details and note that some require booking.

The Council's website features more school holiday happenings around the City.

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Seasonal polls

This season's Blogalogue poll asks:

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If the Library offered free downloadable books,
which would you use?

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We're looking at this possibility and a more comprehensive survey will follow in the future.

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In winter's poll, which asked what was is the best thing about Frankston in winter, the Blogalogue's own AFL footy tipping competition was voted tops.

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You can find the poll on the blog's side bar.

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Customer feedback mid-2010

A bit of this and a bit of that

Although we receive a fair bit of praise from our customers, we also give people the opportunity to suggest how we could do better. With this in mind, it is our pleasure to present to you our customer feedback for Frankston from July and Carrum Downs from August.
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Another Aussie bookshow

Shelf life

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In the tradition of The Book Show and the First Tuesday Book Club, we now have Shelf Life. Produced by the University of Western Sydney, this weekly TV program takes a look at books from both the author's and reader's points of view.

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The bad thing about Shelf Life is that it's only broadcast on TVS, the Sydney version of C31. The good thing is that it's on 4 times a week and is available through live streaming via the TVS website. So, if you've got the bandwidth, it might be worth checking out.

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Email reminders

Good news for email users
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For members who get their library notices via email, we've just started a new service. From now on, 2 days before your loans are due, we'll send you a reminder email listing your loans that need to be returned or renewed.

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If you want to receive your library notices via email, you can sign into the Library website with your membership number and PIN, go to the Personal Details tab, add your email address and tick the Receive library notices via email option. Alternatively, phone or see us in person about adding this feature to your membership.

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50 books you can't put down

Get hooked on reading

The Australian Government's Get Reading! program's guide to 50 Books You Can't Put Down is now available. We have print copies on display for you to take at both the Frankston and Carrum Downs libraries.

Of course, we want you to borrow these titles, but if you go to a participating bookshop and buy one of the 50 books listed in the guide you'll receive a free book. For adults, there's 10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2010 by ten of Australia's best writers and for the kids Tickled Onions by the award-winning children's author Morris Gleitzman.

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