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Power-Mates - Now Available!
You can hire more than books, cds, dvds and magazines at your local library now. Power-Mates will measure the amount of electricity each of your appliances uses. Find out just how much leaving the TV on stand-by and a mobile charger plugged in is costing you - and the planet. For availability click here...
Library Events Calendar
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July 2009
1 to 31 July 2009 - Knitting Inns
2 July - Sorry, BOOKED OUT. Sure-Fire Steps to Small Business Success with author Graham Kenny (Customs House)
4 to 16 July - NAIDOC Week at City of Sydney Libraries and poster exhibition.
Until 26 July 2009 - The Burning Season exhibition (Customs House)
Image: NAIDOC Week poster.
4 to 12 July - Glebe Art Show Exhibition at Glebe Library. Show opening 3 July 6pm by the Lord Mayor of Sydney. Viewing during library hours/Free admission.
7 July - Let's Talk Business - Smart Marketing Strategies
Bookings essential phone 02 8353 1950 (tickets are not available at the door.)
7 July - "The Apology Talk: music, playtime, tears and laughter" - City of Sydney historian Margo Beasley (Customs House, Level 2)
Photograph: Musician at Surry Hills Library for 'Emerging from the Green'.
11 July - Sorry, BOOKED OUT - Knit Wits and Teens Learn to Knit (Customs House)
13 July - Knit Wits and Teens Learn to Knit (Ultimo)
14 July - Richard Jenner - Poetry Presentation
15 July - International Year of Astronomy.
A Sidewalk Astronomy session.
(Ultimo)
15 July - Junior Jive (Glebe)
16 July - Sorry, BOOKED OUT - Jos Carlyle - Hayley Hicks (Newtown)
18 July – 15 October - Emerging from the Green: acoustic music in the Library (Surry Hills)
21 July - First Moon Landing 40th Anniversary (Surry Hills)
22 July - Knit Wits and Teens Learn to Knit (Customs House)
Photograph: knitting sessions at the library.
23 July- Sorry, BOOKED OUT - Alice in Wonderland. Tumbleweed Theatrical Productions
24 July - Knit Wits and Teens Learn to Knit (Waterloo)
28 July - Sorry, BOOKED OUT -Small Bars Information Seminars (Barnet Long room) / Next session 5 November.
August 2009
26 August - Ultimo Science Festival 2009 (Ultimo)
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New Surry Hills Library
Now Open!
The City of Sydney's magnificent new state-of-the-art Surry Hills Library and Community Centre at 405 Crown Street is now open.
Photograph: The new Surry Hills Library © City of Sydney.
The Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009
Tim Winton - Winner 2009
Tim Winton was announced as the 2009 winner for his novel Breath. More about The Miles Franklin Literary Award,
Popular DVDs at the Library
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- Michael Jackson moonwalker
- Michael Jackson: a remarkable life
- Persuasion: a Jane Austen classic
- Your first garden made easy
- The war on democracy
- A time for drunken horses (Soundtrack: Farsi, Kurdish/Subtitle: English.)
Bestsellers at the Library
July 2009
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- Out of breath by Julie Myerson
- The suicide club by Thomas Rhys
- The best of times by Penny Vincenzi
- The tourist by Olen Steinhauer
- The book of love by Kathleen McGowan
Autumn Library Survey
July 2009
The City of Sydney Library customer satisfaction survey is available online. Click on here for your chance to provide feedback on Library services and programs. Responses are confidential. The results from the September quarterly survey are currently available online - thank you for your contribution. 2009 library survey, click here to start...
Russian and Chinese translations now available.
Russian - Пожалуйста, поучаствуйте в опросе - Please take the library survey. Пожалуйста , нажмите здесь - Please click here
Chinese - 歡迎填寫圖書館問卷調查。Please take the library survey. 請按此處。Please click here.
International Year of Astronomy
15 July 2009 / July School Holiday Event
Ultimo Library
5.30 - 7.30 pm
A Sidewalk Astronomy session as part of the Library's July School Holiday program. Participants can look through our Galileoscopes too.
NAIDOC Week Poster Exhibition
4 - 16 July
An exhibition of 25 reproduction NAIDOC Week posters from the 1960s to the present will be hung at Waterloo Library. A small selection of the posters will also be on display at Customs House Library, level 1. These beautifully crafted posters are excellent examples of Indigenous art and illustrate the struggles which Aboriginal and Islander groups have faced over the last 200 years. Permission for the reproduction of the posters courtesy of the Tranby Aboriginal College, Glebe. For more NAIDOC Week events click here.
First Moon Landing 40th Anniversary
21 July 2009 / July School Holiday Event
Surry Hills Library
5.30 - 7.30 pm
Come join us for a lunar event. Soak up some cinema with an astronomical flavour. Children can create solar system mobiles to take home. Sydney Observatory staff will have telescopes from the Observatory for night time viewing.
Ultimo Science Festival 2009
26 August 2009
Ultimo Library from 5.30 until 7.30 pm.
Free Wireless Internet at all branches
Now Available!
Bring your own laptop and connect to the Internet free of charge!
Visitors can now jump online at various locations thanks to a new Free Wireless Internet service. Why not grab your laptop and drop in to Customs House, Glebe, Newtown, Ultimo, Haymarket, Kings Cross, Surry Hills, Town Hall, and Waterloo Libraries and connect to the Internet free of charge.
N.B: Please check the conditions of use. Customers must use battery-operated laptops. Free Internet access using the library's computers is also available.
Sydney Writers Festival Concession Membership
That's a saving of $8!
If you attended a City of Sydney Library / Sydney Writers' Festival event in 2009 and picked up a concession membership bookmark, you are entitled to twelve months Library membership with full benefits at concession rates. That's a saving of $8.
As a member of the City of Sydney Library, you have access to discounted tickets and other benefits from Sydney's premier cultural organisations such as the Sydney Dance Company and Object Gallery, as well as free wi-fi and almost 500,000 items in our collection. Simply present your bookmark at one of our 8 branches to take advantage of this exclusive offer.
- One membership per bookmark.
- Membership expires 12 months from date of joining.
- Concession fees: $7 for 12 months.
- City of Sydney rate payers or residents may join the Library free of charge.
Autumn Winter Benefits 2009
Arts and Cultural Events
City of Sydney Library Members have access to exclusive benefits to arts and cultural events in the City. The City extends its thanks to the cultural organisations who are participating in the Autumn Winter benefits. There’s more to a City of Sydney Library, and Membership is free for City of Sydney residents!
New Korean Language Books - 한국어
July 2009
A selection of new Korean language book is now available for loan at Customs House Library. Titles inlcude:
- 사랑보존법 / 平安寿子
- 첫종이접기 / 신선희
- 책도둑 / 정영목
- 세계대전 Z / 박신호
- 소현세자 : 박안식역사소설 / 박안식
- More new Korean language items, click here
For more information about the Korean collection, click here.
Last Update Thursday 2 July, 20092009
