Happy New Year!

On behalf of the team at

Frankston City Libraries

Wishing you all the best for 2011.

Have a good one.
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PS: We re-open 5 January.

Merry Christmas

From all of us
to all of you

Merry
Christmas

The Libraries will re-open on Wednesday 5 January, 2011.
In the meantime, have fun...



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System offline 3-6pm Cristmas Eve

Due to system maintenance, the Library website and catalogue will be down between 3-6pm today.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

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2010 in review

This year we....

Here's a top 12 of new things we shared with our customers this year:

1. Launched our new website
2. Launched Picture Frankston, our local history photo group on Flickr
3. Launched Art for Loan, your cheap entry into take-home paintings
4. Got a Wii at Frankston and began regular Wii tournaments
5. Held our first borrower selection night at Robinsons Bookshop
6. Gave customers access to IELTS Online
7. Launched searching across our online databases
8. Began email near-due reminders
9. Facilitated the opportunity to follow our blogs on Facebook
10. Launched the dual Frankston High School/Frankston City Libraries membership card
11. Made pedometers for loan
12. Launched Playaway talking books

Along the way we held lots of events, said goodbye to our Library Manager Beck Henshall (and hello to Kim Kearsey as Acting Library Manager) and saw guest footy bears write weekly round-ups for our AFL tipping competition.

Only The Shadow knows what's coming up for 2011.

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Novermber 2010 Carrum Downs feedback

If you can't beat them

Following the release of November's Frankston customer feedback, we thought we might beat the pirates and publish the equivalent Carrum Downs feedback ourselves.

We are currently assessing calls to get Medieval with the leakers.

Chief Inquisitor harps

Storytime update

Change of times for Storytime in 2011
Preschool Storytime:
Frankston, every Thursday -10:30am
Carrum Downs, every Friday - 10:30am
Tiny Tots:
Frankston, every 1st Wednesday - 10:30am
Carrum Downs, every 2nd Thursday - 1:30pm

Storytime is taking a break during January and will
recommence the 1st week of February.
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Christmas/New Years hours

Holiday season times

Here's our hours for Frankston and Carrum Downs over the Christmas/New Year period:

• Christmas Eve, Friday 24 December - libraries close at 3pm
• 25 December to 4 January - libraries closed due to Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Day and our first stocktake in living memory
• Returns chutes re-open Tuesday 4 January
• Normal hours resume Wednesday 5 January

Please note that the Langwarrin and Seaford Customer Service Centres will accept returns between Wednesday, 29 December to Friday, 31 December.

We wish you all a safe and happy festive season.

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Library Express goes on holidays

Downtime at the choo choo branch

Library express at the Frankston train station will be closed over the Christmas/New Year period.

The last day of operation for 2010 will be Thursday, 23 December. It will re-open on Thursday, 13 January 2011.

Anne wishes all her customers a great festive season and a happy new year!

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School holiday program

Holiday fun

January's going to be a busy month with school holiday events at Frankston and Carrum Downs libraries.

• 7 January, Wii Challenge
• 11 January, Ben 10 craft
• 12 January, Cosmodome
• 13 January, Harry Potter diorama
• 13 January, Wii games night
• 14 January, Wiggly Worm Dance
• 18 January, Island fun craft
• 19 January, Manga drawing
• 21 January, Yarn Strong Sista

Please follow the links for more information or take a look at the brochure.

For more school holiday events, see the Council's school holiday activities page.

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November 2010 customer feedback

Leaked!

We decline to comment on specifics, but we will be taking all necessary action to deal with whoever is responsible for the leaking of November's Frankston customer feedback on to the web.

Chief Inspector harps

Annual Frankston Community Appeal

Christmas hamper donations

Each Christmas, the Frankston Community Support and Information Centre provides hampers to families in crisis.

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We are collecting for this at the Frankston Library, with a basket located near the front desk. Donations of non-perishable "Christmassy" goods are welcome, up to 22 December.

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Picture Frankston's councillors

The old boys club

There was a time when Frankston's councillors were all men. They were at least of middle age and, judging by the photos, mostly older.

None were women.

This is quite apparent browsing through our Picture Fankston selection of photos depicting councillors.

No women Mayors or even 24 year old male Mayors back then. Our first woman Mayor, by the way, was Diane Fuller, mid-1980s.

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Summer Reading Club

Join us in a scar-a-thon this summer!

Our summer read-a-thon for kids aged 5 to 16 has begun.

Come to a library, get a reading record, read-up a scary storm
(there's been a few of those this summer already) and

collect prizes along the way.

You don't have to read creepy books with zombies, ghouls,
witches, aliens or vampires, but it helps.

See our Summer Reading Club page for more info.

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Extra session of Denton

By popular demand

we've added a 1pm session

to Terry Denton's drawing worksop event! Saturday 11 December.

To book, please call
Robinsons Bookshop on 9783 6488
or the Library on 9784 1020.

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Website offline tonight

Planned outage

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The Library's website, catalogue and PC booking system will be offline tonight from 9pm. It should be all back to normal on Friday morning.

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This planned outage is part of the Council's network maintenance program.

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We apologise for any inconvenience.

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The best of 2010

'Tis the season for making lists

It's December, so people are making lists. Not just Christmas present lists and New Years resolutions, but lists which highlight the "best of" the year soon passing.

In the spirit of the moment, here's a select list of 2010 best book lists:

• Readings best fiction
• Readings best kids and YA books
• Bloomberg's top business books (via The Age)
• Publishers Weekly
• Guardian
• Amazon.com

There are a few titles that make it to more than one list, but the diversity just goes to prove that it's all in the eye of the beholder.

If you've got a fave 2010 read, please feel free to share it via the comments link.

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