Library Lovers News

January 2014

Southern Downs Regional Libraries

Volume 3, Issue 1

Welcome to the first edition of Library Lovers News for 2014. This is shaping up to be a great year. The Summer Reading Club has been running throughout the holidays with lots of competitions and prizes to be won for the children. Library Lovers Day is coming up on the 14th of February. Keep an eye out in your local library branch for displays.

Inside this issue: Unusual Libraries Spotlight on Tim Winton New Books 2 2

Top Reads

Author Lists

Biggest Libraries

Looking Back At 2013 New CD Books

There will be many more exciting things happening throughout the year such as Library & Information Week, which has the theme of Join the Dots, Bookweek, and National Simultaneous Storytime, just to name a few. There will be a Library Lovers News every two months or so, and we also have a Pinterest account and a Facebook page to keep you up to date with everything that is happening in our libraries.

Quiz

Bookcases for the Batman fan or for the music lover, or how about a bookshelf tree on your wall?

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Unusual Libraries
If you have any ideas of what could be included in this newsletter please let us know; we would love to hear your opinions.

The Honesty Bookstore is located in the Welsh town Hay-on-Wye. Customers pay on an honesty system using the money box provided.

A tree house library in Germany

Spotlight on Tim Winton

This newsletter can be emailed to you if you wish. Ask to be added to the email list at your local library.

Tim Winton is one of Australias best known writers. Born in Karrinyup, Western Australia in 1960, he has lived all over the world before settling in Fremantle, WA with his wife and three children. Wintons first novel An Open Swimmer was written while he was at university and won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. His books have received much acclaim with The Riders and Dirt Music both being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. His novels Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath all won The Miles Franklin Award. Tims latest book Eyrie was published recently and has been described by The Guardian as a superb novel: a novel of disillusionment and redemption, loss and beauty, the taking of responsibility and the overcoming of disappointment. The library now has a Pinterest account. You can find us at http://pinterest.com/sdrclibraries/

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New Books

An Act of Kindness by Barbara Nadel

Afterworld by Lois Walden

30 Build-YourOwn Birdhouses by Mary Maguire

The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman

The All-Girl Filling Stations Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas

Bellagrand by Paullina Simons

Cross My Heart by James Patterson

The Beautiful Edible Garden by Leslie Bennett

Coping with Epilepsy by Pamela M. Crawford

Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World by Alison Weir

Dark Witch by Nora Roberts

If a book is well written, I always find it too short ~ Jane Austen

Authors of Private Eye

Linda Barnes (Carlotta Carlyle) Robert G. Barrett (Les Norton) Jean Bedford (Anna Southwood) Lawrence Block (Matt Scudder) Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe) Peter Corris (Cliff Hardy) Janet Dawson (Jeri Howard) Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum) Kinky Friedman (Kinky Friedman Sue Grafton (Kinsey Millhone) Reginald Hill (Joe Sixsmith) Karen Kijewski (Kat Colorado) Lynda La Plante (Lorraine Page) Val McDermid (Kate Brannigan) G. A. McKevett (Savannah Reid) Marcia Muller (Sharon McCone) Sara Paretsky (V.I. Warshawski) Robert Parker (Spenser) Bill Pronzini (Nameless detective) Lawrence Sanders (Archy McNally) Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe)

Top Reads

These are the most borrowed books over the last two months. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Youve Been Warned by James Patterson I, Michael Bennett by James Patterson The Affair by Lee Child The Drop by Michael Connelly The Front by Patricia D. Cornwell Inferno by Dan Brown Where were you? Events that changed the world 8. Cross Country by James Patterson 9. I Spy Spooky Night: A Book of Picture Riddles by Jean Marzollo 10. Kindred in Death by J.D. Robb

British Library, London, United Kingdom Library of Congress, Washington, USA New York Public Library, New York City, USA Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia National Library of Russia, Saint Petersburg, Russia National Library, Tokyo, Japan Toronto Public Library, Toronto, Canada National Library of China, Beijing, China Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen, Denmark Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia

The Biggest Libraries in the World

Authors of Adventure Sagas

James Clavell Alexander Cordell Bernard Cornwell Colin de Silva Robert Elegant Colin Falconer John Jakes Alexander Kent Nicholas Luard Philip McCutchan James Michener Christopher Nicole Patrick OBrian Dudley Pope Robert Shea Sidney Sheldon Leon Uris

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Southern Downs Regional Libraries

Looking Back at
There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air. ~ Richard Marek

What happened in our libraries during the last year. We increased our membership to

13 795 borrowers
We loaned a total of 285 236 items
Increased our presence on social media by using Subscribed to Zinio for online magazines, as well as The Computer School, Transparent Language Online and Universal Course.

Pinterest
&

Facebook

Hosted 5 author visits

Read The Wrong Book by Nick Bland for National Simultaneous Storytime across the region. Felt the love on Library Lovers Day

There is such seduction in a library of good books. ~ John Quincy Adams

Read stories to 742 children during Storytime sessions.

23 169
reservations were placed.
We Read Across the Universe during Childrens Book Week.

Our computer system was upgraded resulting in a new look for our online catalogue.

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New CD Books

Wolf Winter by Clare Francis

A Dead Man in Naples by Michael Pearce

Taken by Robert Crais

Longshot by Dick Francis

John Saturnalls Feast by Lawrence Norfolk

One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper

E. B. Whites Charlotte: The Original Web Blogger.

Wherever I am, if Ive got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy. ~ J.K. Rowling

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Quiz: Can you fill what these authors real names actually are?
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Lemony Snicket wrote A Series of Unfortunate Events under a pseudonym. What is the authors real name? Joanne K. Rowling wrote the Harry Potter series, but what does the initial K stand for? Darren Shan wrote The Saga of Darren Shanwhat is the authors real name? What is the real name of Lewis Carroll, author of Alices Adventures in Wonderland? Dr Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. Who is Dr Seuss really? Mark Twain wrote The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, but what is his real name? Beatrix Potter wrote The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Whats her real name? C. S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narniawhat do his initials stand for? Herge wrote and drew The Adventures of Tintinwhat was his real name?

10. A. A. Milne wrote Winnie-the Poohwhat was his full name?

Answers to the First Lines Quiz

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee Jaws by Peter Benchley

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