Library notes 25 October

Published on October 25, 2017

Top 10 books

New Adult Non- Fiction

Co-Create, How your business will profit from innovative and strategic collaboration by David Nour

Innocent, A Murdered Son. A Grieving Mother. The Fight to Clear her Name by Sarah Rose

5,SE,6,7 iphone Made Easy by Kieran Alger and Chris Smith

Ed Sheeran a Visual Journey by Ed Sheeran and Phillip Butah

The Australian Women’s Weekly Slow-Cooker Comfort Food

War Blacks, The Extraordinary Story of New Zealand’s World War I All Blacks by Matt Elliot

Modern Calligraphy Workshop, The Creative Art of Pen, Brush and Chalk Lettering  by Imogen Owen

Origami Jewelry by Mayumi Jezewski

The Cross-Stitch Garden, Over 70 Cross-Stitch motifs and 20 stunning projects by Kazuko Aoki

The Hand-Stitched Surface, Slow Stitching and Mixed-Media Techniques for Fabric and Paper by Lynn Krawczyk

Did you know?

Editorial by Joanne Dillon (JD) - Literacy and Learning Programmes Librarian

With many library members now in possession of one of our colourful library cards it’s timely to remind you of some of the things you can do with this card.

Using your library card you can issue your own books, magazines and DVDs on our self check machines, even paying for fines and rental fees using the attached eft-pos machines or money stored on your library account. Some of you won’t know that you can also scan your card on the machines and then renew any books you want to keep longer, without even bringing them in. Of course, you can still phone us to do your renewals as many customers do.

At each of our three libraries you can also use our kiosks to add money to your library card – the kiosk accepts notes and coins as well as eft-pos. You can then use your library card as a debit card, using your balance to pay for any rental items you have borrowed and to pay for printing.

If you have the internet at home or on your phone you can log into our web based library catalogue at https://horowhenua.library.org.nz/. To do this you will need to enter your card number which is underneath your barcode and your password (speak with library staff if you need to update your password). Once logged in you can see when everything you have on loan is due back and in most cases renew them if you need more time. Each item can be renewed once before it needs to be renewed and if another customer has paid to reserve the item it won’t be renewable. While you are logged into your account you can place a reserve on something that is on loan to another borrower and enter a new purchase suggestion for a title we don’t have but you would like us to purchase.

Your library card also gives you free access to our collection of more than 3,000 ebook titles – you can borrow up to 6 ebooks at a time for 3 weeks each. You can also reserve ebooks that are out and if you forget to return them on time they will return themselves so you won’t ever have to pay overdue fines on an ebook.

Foxton Library will be closing at 5pm on Friday 10 November so that we can get busy moving into our brand new library at Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom which is opening on Saturday 18 November.  We encourage you to borrow more books than usual when you next visit Foxton Library so that you don’t run out while we’re closed. We will be telling you more about our new library and the grand opening in a few weeks time.

What’s On

Exhibitions

Ashleigh Collis ‘ Mangahuia Photography Exhibition – 1-31 October

Town and Country Quilters Exhibtion – 14-28 October

Monday to Friday

Volunteer Resource Centre: Talk to the Volunteer Resource Centre about becoming a volunteer. They can help you match your individual skills and interests with a large number of groups who need volunteers. 10am - 12 noon.

Family and local history: Call into the Heritage Room for help and advice on researching your family tree 10am-3pm.

Wednesday 25 October

Social crochet and coffee club: Jenny Goyne will teach you to crochet, or bring you own craft project along and join in the coffee and chat and meet new friends 10.30am

Te Reo classes 6pm

Quiz night 7pm

Thursday

Te Runanga o Raukawa Playgroup 10-11.30am

Student 101: Cooking on a budget 7-9pm

Friday

GeriARTricks in the Main Takere Space 9am-3pm

Lunchtime concert  12-1pm

SeniorNet: Get help with your tablets, phones and laptops 2-4pm

Monday

10-11.30am Tai Chi

Tuesday

JP Service Centre 11.30am-1.30pm

Te Runanga o Raukawa Playgroup 10-11.30am

Youth Debate Club 3.30-4.30pm

Wednesday 1 November

Social crochet and coffee club: Jenny Goyne will teach you to crochet, or bring you own craft project along and join in the coffee and chat and meet new friends 10.30am

Friends of Horowhenua Libraries  morning tea 10.30am-12pm

Te Reo classes 6pm

Quiz night 7pm

Learn new skills

Thursday 26 October

Setting up and using Gmail 10am-12pm

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