Poetry Workshop

Do you enjoy listening to, writing or reading poetry? Take this opportunity to further develop your lyrical and poetry writing skills with support from Benjamin “IQ” Sanders who has won numerous poetry competitions.

Venue: Frankston Library, 60 Playne Street,Frankston (Melway Ref: 100 D8)

Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Bookings required on 9784 1020.

Library Closed!

Sad to say, but it's that time again and the Frankston and Carrum Downs branches are going to be closed next Tuesday morning for our monthly staff training session. Seaford and Langwarrin shops will remain open for their usual hours.

Altered Opening Hours Tuesday October 4th:

Frankston Library
12:oo-9:00pm

Carrum Downs Library
1:00pm-6:00pm

Scott

August Customer Feedback

Presented for your approval, the customer feedback for the month of August.
Frankston Library Feedback
Carrum Downs Library Feedback
Enjoy.
Scott.

New parking charges at Frankston

Bring extra change

For those who park in the Frankston Arts Centre carpark, new parking fees will apply as of 26 September.

The new charges will be 80c per hour (up from 70c) and $4.50 per day (up from $3.50). The same charges will apply to other Council parking areas, including the Playne Street and Young Street East carparks.

Don't forget that there is free parking on Level 2, with 18 free spaces available for upto 2 hours. These spots are marked Reserved Parking for Library patrons during hours of operation. If you are there for longer or haven't paid outside these hours, you could be booked.

For more on parking at Frankston Library, please refer to our website's page, How do I park at Frankston Library?

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What to read next

Book recommendations 

There are several online resources to help you find your next read. In addition to online bookshops that tell you what others purchased, here's some ways to discover similar books to the ones you like.

• LibraryThing - You can sign up to LibraryThing yourself, or click on book titles in our catalogue to see similar books also held by the Library as recommended by LibraryThing users.
• Goodreads and Shelfari are similar to LibraryThing in that they are based on a community of readers sharing their reviews and creating links between books.
• For a simple type in the author or title experience, try Booklamp, What Should I Read Next or The Book Seer. These sites either use reader reviews or algorythms based on book scanning for data.
• Whichbook is different, as it gives you suggestions based on the factors you're looking for in a book. Note, though, that the Borrow link on helps if you're in Britain.

Try them and discover which works best for you. You might be suprised.
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Inky short list

Vote for your favourite

The Centre of Youth Literature has announced the short list for the 2011 Inky Awards. The Inkys are an Australian teen choice book awards for both Australian and international books.

Please follow the links below to find these shortlisted titles in the catalogue.

Gold Inky (Australian book)

• Graffiti Moon  - Cath Crowley
• This is Shyness - Leanne Hall
• Silvermay - James Moloney
• Black Painted Fingernails - Steven Herrick
• All I Ever Wanted - Vikki Wakefield

 Silver Inky (International book)

• Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares - Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
• No and Me - Delphine de Vigan
• Clockwork Angel  - Cassandra Clare
• The Agency: The Body at the Tower - Y.S. Lee
• Where She Went - Gayle Forman

Voting will be open until midnight October 14.

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Possible phone scam

We don't ask for credit cards

It has been reported to us that people claiming to represent Frankston City Libraries as debt collectors have been asking customers to pay their library charges over the phone.

We and our collection agency never ask for credit card information over the phone. Please do not pay any library charges to anyone over the phone.

If you receive one of these calls, or have paid library charges over the phone, please let is know.

If you are the victim of a phone scam, you can report it to the Victorian Government's Dob in a Scam or the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's Scamwatch.

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Take your pick...

An exclusive selection event

Here's your opportunity to play librarian and select books for the Library.

In an exclusive, Frankston City Libraries members only evening at Robinsons Bookshop, you can select up to 3 books from their shelves for inclusion in the Library's collection.

Bookings required: phone 9784 1020
Date: Thursday, 29 September 2011

Time: 6.00pm - 7.30pm
Location: Robinsons Bookshop 3/11 Station St
Cost: Free

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Shekilda 2011

Who, What, Where?

If you like Aussie crime written by women, then Sisters in Crime Australia's Shekilda convention is for you. The convention program features luminaries like Tara Moss and Kerry Greenwood, plus sessions and workshops for aspiring crime writers and readers alike.

The Shekilda, Australian Women Crime Writers' Convention, runs 7-9 October.

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#NPW2011 day 5

And your

poetic activity

for today
is to

celebrate!

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#NPW2011 day 4

And your

poetic activity

for today
is to

live

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September 2011 school holiday program

Fun things for the holidays

It's almost time for the September school holidays, so here's our activities for the kids. Please follow the links for information on bookings.

• Terry Denton workshop - Tuesday 27 September, 11:00am or 1:30pm - Both fully booked
• Lyrebird Community Centre Footy Fever Day - Wednesday, 28 September, several sessions
• Tiny Tots Storytime - Thursday, 29 September 1:30pm - 2:00pm
• Wii Challenge - Friday, 30 September 1:30pm - 3:00pm
• Pom Pom Critters - Tuesday, 4 October 1:30pm - 2:30pm
• Tiny Tots Storytime - Wednesday, 5 October 10:30am-11:00am
• Movie screening: Tangled - Rated PG - Thursday, 6 October 10:30am - 12:10pm
• Scrapbooking - Friday, 7 October 11:30am - 12:30pm

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#NPW2011 day 3

And your

poetic activity

for today
is to

share

full moon above

this winding road

this empty church

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Music genres return!

Music now in categories at Frankston

Due to popular demand, the music CDs at Frankston Library are now arranged by category. The CDs will will be arranged by author (band name, composer or act) within each of the larger categories.

Here's your new categories:

• Popular -  POP in white (or a white dot)
  A broad church of contemporary music from pop to dark ambient.
• Heavy metal - HEA in black
  Hey you in the black t-shirt! Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slipknot etc.
• Classical - CLA in red
  Old classics like Mozart to contemporary neo-classical like Sophie Hutchings.
• Country and folk - COU in green
  Music with a twang or whatever sound folk singers make. 
• World - WOR in orange
  Indigenous music from Africa, Asia, Ireland, Iceland, Cuba and so on.
• Jazz and blues - JAZ in blue
  If it's jazzy or bluesy, then you can dig it here.
• Relaxation - REL in purple
  Soothing chillout music for quiet moments.
• Nostalgia - NOS in mauve
  Popular favourites from yesteryear like Dame Vera, Frank Sinatra and Glenn Miller.
• Soundtracks - SOU in yellow
  Songs, themes and scores from movies and musicals.

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National Poetry Week day 2

And your

poetic activity

for today

is to

buy
(but we'll accept borrow)

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It's National Poetry Week

And your
poetic activity
for today
is to

write

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Round 24 round up

And the winners are...

At The Age, the best "expert tipper" was Martin Boulton with 138 wins. Over at the Herald Sun, Cameron Smith topped the tipping with 140 wins. But in the 2011 Blogalogue tipping comp, 140 got you no better than 6th place.

Community member Bottle is hereby declared the winner, with a total score of 145 wins. Librarian kiwi sok took second prize, a whisker behind on 144.

Bottle and kiwi sok will be receiving their prizes, but it takes a community to make a ladder, so thank you all. Also thanks to our guest contributors, the footy bears.

So you again in AFL season 2012 (probably).

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The Jeannette and Lenny Show

At Thursday's Mayor's Reading Challenge Finale

author Jeannette Rowe and
injured but ace Sainter Lenny Hayes

did the honours.

Lenny also shared some reading tips
with a young reader.

See our Facebook album of this event

which includes a link to more pictures from the

St Kilda Football Club.

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(Go Saints!)