Spring 2014 Coming Soon… New eBooks!
The Shorelink Library Network is excited to introduce BorrowBox a great new eBook product, meaning Mosman Library's range of eBooks and eAudiobooks is about to get even bigger. Enjoy reading all your favourite titles, (including Australian and International authors) everywhere you go. Whether you're taking a trip on the bus to work or an overseas flight to France downloading eBooks couldn’t be easier or more convenient. BorrowBox is intuitive and easy to use and provides access to a great range of titles to complement our existing eBook and magazine suppliers. For tablets and smartphones, simply download the BorrowBox app from the App store or Google Play and you'll be well on your way to reading the latest bestsellers. For PCs you will need to download Adobe Digital Editions. BorrowBox will be available late September. Contact Mosman Library on 9978 4091 for more information or assistance.
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ISSUE 68
Read, Review & Win
The Library’s Winter Reading Program, “Read, Review & Win” is over for another year, with one very happy reader having received the major prize of an iPod. Congratulations to Donna Lewis, whose review of the book, “The Feel-Good Hit of the Year” was drawn out of the hat and made her the lucky winner. And Donna took advantage of the new method of reviewing a book which was to post her review straight on to the catalogue. You can read her review plus all the others by clicking on “Best Reviews” on the Shorelink catalogue. Weekly prizes were also awarded, which included vouchers to spend at a local bookshop. Congratulations to all our winners – Leicester Warburton Brian Scanlen Denise Wooton Michael Broe Marcia Edwards Liz Cotty Diana Coatsworth Donna Lewis “Read, Review & Win” will be back in the Summer holidays.
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SPRING 2014
NEWS & VIEWS
Mosman dances on…
There were no plies or pirouettes but the spirit of Mosman ballet teacher the late Mavis Sykes was alive when former students, family and friends gathered to celebrate the life of ‘Miss Sykes’ on Monday 18 August. The occasion was the launch of her story on our Mosman Faces website, a site that brings Mosman’s stories to life on screen through filmed interviews, images and music. Memories created the film and memories will continue to keep the Mavis Sykes story alive, a story that spanned 70 years of teaching children ballet, examining and choreographing Mosman Musical Society productions. So share your memories or just be entertained as Mosman dances on with the Mavis Sykes story on mosmanfaces.net
Family History month at Mosman Library
During this year's Family History month the Library mounted a display of some of the most widely used genealogy resources available in the Mosman Local Studies Collection. These include cemetery records, births death and marriage records, probate indexes and shipping lists as well as guides on how to go about tracing your family's history in different countries and over many centuries. This time it seems the most popular resources which aroused the greatest curiosity were the online databases Ancestry.com and
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Findmypast.com. Mosman Library has subscribed to these amazing resources for a few years as a way of making family history research easier and faster. Anyone may come into the Library and start their research online for free. These databases are continually being updated with new lists and records so if you don't find what you are seeking on your the first visit in all likelihood you will find it on subsequent visits.
The Balmoral Beach Club Celebrates its Centenary
This exhibition recently held in the Mosman Room was of great interest to both club members and the general public with a continual flow of people coming in to take a peak. The club was started in 1914 by a group of young men known as The Smugglers who met regularly at the weekend Euroka Camp. On view were items from the club's large archival collection dating from early days including records of the first meeting, minute books, early video footage, trophies and hundreds of photographs. However, the most popular items were the club's monthly newsletter which would chronicle the club events and relay stories of the comings and goings of club members. Many of those who visited the exhibition would exclaim with joy when they read of their father's record swim or the barbeque where they met their husband!
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SPRING 2014
NEWS & VIEWS
Mosman Youth Awards in Literature 2014 Winners announced!
The Mosman Youth Awards in Literature winners have been announced. This year is the 22nd year that the competition has been held and interest remains high with just over 350 entries of prose and poetry received. The Presentation Evening was held on Wednesday 27 August at Mosman Library. 90 people attended including short-listed entrants and their families, teachers, sponsors, competition judges and the Mayor of Mosman, Councillor Peter Abelson. The judges congratulated all the short-listed writers and commented that the high standard of entries made it very hard to choose the winners. This year’s awards were sponsored by Rotary Club of Mosman, Mosman Lions Club, Liley and Liley @Willoughby, Ferry to Mosman Committee and Mosman Community College. The total amount awarded for prizes was $2,075. The winners are as follows: Primary Prose 1st Prize- Samuel Cook, SCECGS Redlands 2nd Prize- Orlando Stewart, Mosman Preparatory School Highly Commended- Hayley White, Christian Covenant School
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Junior Secondary Prose 1st Prize – Michelle Chai, Pymble Ladies College 2nd Prize- Nanki Soin, St Luke’s Grammar School Highly Commended- Christy Hou, Pymble Ladies College Senior Secondary Prose 1st Prize – Maegan Hamill, Bradfield Senior College 2nd Prize – Sheridan Wood, Loreto Kirribilli Highly Commended- Serena McSweeney, Loreto Kirribilli Junior Secondary Poetry 1st Prize- Lauren Park, Pymble Ladies College 2nd Prize- Mackensie Hargrave, St Luke’s Grammar School Highly Commended- Daphne Zhang, Pymble Ladies College Senior Secondary Poetry 1st Prize- Nicola Hughson, Queenwood School for Girls 2nd Prize- Phoebe Lee, Pymble Ladies College Highly Commended-Jack Poppert, Bradfield Senior College
Looking for your Next Great Read?
Why not sign up for monthly NextReads email newsletters from Mosman Library? By signing up you will have new and recommended reading selected by us, your librarians, delivered straight to your inbox. You can subscribe to as many lists as you want, the choice is yours. Choose from: Armchair Travel, Biography & Memoir, Detective/Mystery, Fantasy, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Home, Garden & DIY, Horror, Kid’s Books, Mind Body & Fitness, Romance, Science Fiction, Teen Scene, Thrillers and Suspense. Each title comes with a brief description and some with first chapters. Titles are linked to our catalogue so if a book catches your interest you can click on the catalogue link to find out if it is available.To sign up simply go to the Mosman Library Reading Lounge www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/ For more reading ideas and to read reviews by our Read Review and Win reviewers and others visit Mosman Readers at http: www.mosmanreaders.net
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Mosman High School Visits Mosman Library
In the month of June, 210 Year 7 students from Mosman High School walked through the doors of Mosman Library in a program organised between the Promotions and Youth Services Librarian and the Mosman High School Librarian, Carolyn Davey. This outreach program aimed to engage the students with the Mosman community, promote the Library for Young Adults, raise awareness of our services and resources for teenagers as well as develop information literacy skills. The library visit focused on areas of relevance to teenage borrowers. The students were taken through the catalogue and shown how to search for items. Relevant areas of the Library website that was looked at included, the teen page, Mosman events page and the wired4teens blog. We took a tour of the non-fiction section of the Library on our way down to the Young Adult section of the Library. The student’s newly acquired skills were tested in "The Amazing Library Race". In this activity the teams had to race around the Library collecting clues, each clue lead to a book, there were 7 to find and the first team to arrive at the book would also find a treat waiting for them. The students were very engaged in the activity and had to utilise their newly acquired skills using the Library catalogue and the internet. The students thoroughly enjoyed their visit vowing that they would be back and as there was an element of fun attached to their experience they left with a positive image of the Library as a fun and friendly place with cool books.
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Children’s Book Week 2014 at Mosman Library
The theme for Children’s Book Week 2014, Saturday 16 - Friday 22 August was “Connect to Reading”. The Children’s Library staff organised many fun activities including the “Connect to Reading” themed Book Week Competitions and visits from authors and special performers. Over 600 competition entries were displayed in the Library creating an interesting and exciting extraterrestrial environment for us all! Congratulations to all who entered, the entries were amazing. Over 450 children visited the library for the various activities held during the week. The highlights for the week included the author of the Wilderness Fairies Series, Jodie Wells-Slowgrove who held workshops with class groups, and the special Book Week show, Then and Now, promoting the magic of books. Councillor Libby Moline announced the winners of the Children’s Book Week Competition. It was an enjoyable and fun filled Children’s Book Week 2014 at the Mosman Library.
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