Hobsons Bay Libraries

📝 Do you have or know a primary aged child who have become a little disengaged with reading and is struggling with literacy? 📖

🖊 Join our new after school program, Story Scribblers, where kids can explore our library collection, get help with their reading and writing and explore story writing - all with gentle support from our fabulous librarian within a safe space.

Drop in. Bookings not required.

*Story Scribblers*
📆 Mondays, during school term
⌚ 3.45pm to 4.45pm
📍 Williamstown Library
🔗 For more info: https://bit.ly/3CjNa8p

🪳 Over 60 years ago, on 16 July 1964, The Beatles released their first feature film, 'A Hard Day's Night'.

🎞 For all The Beatles and classic film fans, this is perfect for you!

Bring your friends and fellow Beatle-maniacs, enjoy free warm drinks and snacks and even a sing-a-long! 🎵

*Warm Winter Movie Lounge - Hard Day's Night*
📆 Wednesday 31 July
⌚️ 10am to 1pm
📍 Newport Community Hub
🔗 For more info or to book: https://bit.ly/4ff7SbR

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♻️ Join us for our PlasticFree July documentary screening of ‘Peleton against Plastic’ and take away some great giveaways to get you started on a low waste life. We have: 👜TOMRA Cleanaway Container Deposit recycling bags
🍶 your choice of 1L stainless steel water bottles OR reusable underwear 🩲

🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️ Sustainability advocates Paul Hellier and Jamie Lepre cycle through Thailand, travelling from Hanoi to Bangkok and meeting inspiring individuals making incredible strides in preventing plastic pollution.

*Morning Doco Screening: Peleton Against Plastic*
📆 Thursday 25 July
⌚ 10.30am to 12.30pm
📍 Altona Library
🔗 For more info or to book: https://bit.ly/3LAoBsl

*while stock lasts

📹 Do these look familiar? Do you know what they are? 🎞

If you do, then you may know how precious they can be.

Learn how to save and transfer these VHS tapes onto USB and preserve your memories.

*Learn how to save your VHS tapes to USB*
📆 Wednesday 24 July
⌚️ 10.30am to 11.30am
📍 Williamstown Library
🔗 For more info or to book: https://bit.ly/3WtU7yw

The Altona North mobile library is temporarily closed.

The closest sites for you to continue to access library and Council+ services are at Newport and Altona libraries.

Our Altona North Library staff are being relocated to other Council+ sites.

Stay tuned next week for more information about the opening of the new pop-up, which will be in place while the library is being renovated.

🎉 Monday Makerspace is back!

🛠 Drop-in Monday afternoons and explore the makerspace with a trained staff member. Try a new project or continue tinkering with an existing one.

Equipment available includes sewing machines, Cricut machine, 3Doodler Pens, Electronic Kits, Robotic Kits and more. Best of all - it's all free to use.

Bookings not required. For ages 18+ only.

📆 Mondays until 16 September
⌚️ 3pm to 6pm
📍 STEAM Centre at Altona Meadows Library
🔗 For more info: https://bit.ly/4cNmZHF

Medicare is 40 in 2024! 🎂

Medicare has helped Australians🦘 access affordable health care since 1984. 🥳

To celebrate the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care has launched a pop-up display in libraries across Australia to showcase the history of Medicare and provide information about current Medicare services available.

To find out more, visit Hobsons Bay Libraries and check out this historical Medicare display until mid-August. 🎉

Learn more about Medicare’s history by visiting 🖥️ https://www.health.gov.au/medicare-turns-40

📣 The new Term 3 programming kicks off next Monday 22 July! We are excited to share that there will be more sessions at more locations including Brooklyn, Seabrook and Woods Street! 💫

👀 Please check the new timetable as there has been some changes.

🖊 For our primary age programming, we have a NEW program for budding writers, 'Story Scribblers', along with our regular offerings.

❗️ A reminder that Altona North Community Library is now closed due to refurbishment.

Bookings not required.

🔗 For more info: https://bit.ly/4687O9z

🎉 Something exciting is happening…! We are launching our new mobile library at Altona North all next week. 🚚

The mobile library will be located in the car park at Altona North Library and will be available for all your Council + queries and library needs. 📕

The car park will be closed to all traffic. Borrack Square shopping centre will be your closest car park.

This week, (w/c 15th July) the mobile library will be available from 9.30am to 5pm every weekday, Saturday 10am to 4pm and Sunday 2pm to 5pm.

Please keep an eye 👀on our socials for further updates on the mobile library and pop-up coming soon.

For more information about the refurbishment check our links 🔗 in bio.

‼️ This event is POSTPONED due to illness. Apologies for any disappointment.‼️ We hope to reschedule soon.

🌍 Join author of ‘Live More With Less’, Dr. Kate Luckins to discover tips and tricks to help you cut down on the not-so-fun side of parties – waste!

Kate is a sustainability leader and encourages everyone to take achievable actions and live their ‘own’ shade of green. 🌵

Bookings required - see website for more details.


📆 Wednesday 17 July
⌚ 6.15pm to 7.45pm
📍 Altona Library

‼️ Unfortunately SLAM Poetry with MpathSoul is postponed today due to illness. We hope to rearrange this event in the future. Apologies for any disappointment.

NAIDOC Reading Lounge

📚 To celebrate NAIDOC Week and as part of Warm Winter Read, join us for this special reading lounge and discover recommended titles.

☕ Cosy up in a corner of the library and enjoy a book, complimentary tea or coffee and biscuits.

⚫ 🟡🔴 NAIDOC Week is held each year to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Bookings not required. Children under 12 must be supervised.

📆 Wednesday 10 July
⌚ 5pm to 8pm
📍 Altona Library

📣 We are excited to announce that Altona North Community Library will be undergoing a much-needed refurbishment. The library will therefore be closed from Monday 15 July 2024.

The current building is over 14 years old and it’s time to modernise the facilities, enhance our services and create a more welcoming space for our community. 🏛

A pop-up library will be coming for all your library 📚 and Council + queries. Keep an eye out on our socials for more news! 🗞

🎮 Are you a regular gamer or keen to try it for the first time in safe space?

Come along to the Grown-Up Gaming Club! There are various consoles for you to try and learn (or revisit!)- from Nintendo Switch, 64 and NES, iPad games and more! There is no set program and you are free to choose your game of choice. 😀

For ages 18+

📆 Friday 5 & 12 July
⌚ 10am to 11am
📍 STEAM Centre at Altona Meadows Library

📣 Newport Library will be closed on Friday 5 July and Saturday 6 July due to renovation work. The Community Hub will remain open for Russell's Nursery Rhyme Singalong at 10am and Maternal Health appointments.
Please enter through Paine Reserve entrance for the Hub.

You can still renew items online and return chutes are available at all branches.

Online resources, including eLibrary and film streaming, will be available as usual.

🎒 School holiday is almost here! Retreat to the warmth of the library and enjoy our space or join in these sessions. Bookings not required. All are family friendly.

🧸 Nursery Rhyme Time Singalong
📆 Friday 5 July
⌚️ 10am to 11am
📍 Newport Community Hub

👕 Children's Clothes Swap and Story Time
📆 Tuesday 9 July
⌚️ 10am to 11.30am
📍 Commonwealth Reserve, Williamstown

🐦Hidden Hobsons Bay with Ranger Andrew
📆 Friday 12 July
⌚️ 10am to 11am
📍 Altona Library

🧘 Feeling disconnected? Join us over the next three Thursdays for Wayapa Wuurk Indigenous Earth Connection Practice workshops.

🌏 Through a combination of Earth mindfulness, narrative meditation, a series of physical movements and taking action to look after the planet, Wayapa will help you feel reconnected to your environment.

📆 Thursdays - 27 June, 4 & 11 July
⌚️ 10.30am to 11am
📍 Logan Reserve, Altona
🔗 For more info or to book: https://bit.ly/4cAqxwt

🖍️ What a fantastic finish to the regular primary years programming at Altona North!

We had a very special visit from author and illustrator Lucinda Gifford yesterday who took the kids through a writing and drawing workshop and spilling her trade secrets!

One parent commented - "I learnt to draw from my father, and now I love seeing my children enjoying drawing too!" ❤️

Our regular programming ends this week. It will return from the second week of Term 3, Monday 22 July.

Lucinda Gifford Books

‼️ There is no EOFY sale but you could win one of three $100 Coles giftcards!

Become a library member or refer a friend/neighbour/colleague/postie/student/dog walker/barista to join the library by 30 June for a chance to win.

🔗For more info: https://bit.ly/4b6lQJN

❄️ The temperature has certainly dropped lately - so what better time than to curl up in a warm place and join in the Warm Winter Read. 🔥

📚 Join the challenges to win some great prizes - or just to track or challenge your reading.

We'll also be running events to help you throughout winter so check them out if you're in need of recommendations, motivation or connecting with others.

🔗 For more info: https://tinyurl.com/mrbs93rz

🎧 In case you're wondering, yes, audiobooks definitely count as reading.

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📕 We have a lovely book review written by our wonderful work experience student:

Cursed by Marrisa Meyer

'Discover the perspective of the curses in this book by Marissa Meyer. This book is one of the best heart-pounding stories there is with its romance, adventures and mysterious secrets this story has to offer.'

Available to borrow at our libraries now!

🤩 Check out the amazing work the participants created at our Intro to Cricut sessions last weekend!

📩 Stay up to date with our events and subscribe to our Eventbrite account where you'll get notifications whenever we post up new events or follow our socials.

🔗 Subscribe to Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/3VMPvDa

📣 Win one of three $100 Coles gift cards!

🔑 Unlock endless adventures at Hobsons Bay Libraries. Become a library member by EOFY (end of financial year, 30 June) or refer a friend to be in the chance to win. You do not need to be a local resident to join.

Did you know the library offers:
✔ unlimited loans
✔ film streaming
✔ Library of Things (borrowable equipment)
✔ eLibrary
✔ on demand homework help
✔ wide range of classes to expand your knowledge
✔ events for all ages

And much more - all for free. Entry forms available in branch.

🔗 For more info: https://bit.ly/4b6lQJN

Become a library member by EOFY or refer a friend to win! Three $100 Coles gift cards to be won!

🐾 We had some possum magic in the library!

📚 The little fellow was found tucked up in Altona Library yesterday, enjoying the vibe in our warm safe space or perhaps checking out our collection.

🌳 While we loved having the visit, possum was caught and safely released.

📕 Enjoy story time in your language with LOTE4Kids!

We are pleased to be subscribing to new eResource where you can listen to stories in over 60 languages - from Burmese to Dutch, Hungarian to Sinhala.

🌏 This is also a great resource if you're learning a new language.

🔗 Access this for free with your library card: https://bit.ly/3v42dma

Our book list is looking great! The W***y Lit Fest is on THIS weekend. With a stunning and varied program, there is something for everyone.

Hobsons Bay Libraries will also have a stand at the festival so be sure to come say hi, join up (you don't need to live in the area), and see what else the library has to offer.

🤩 We are excited to have received the first of many dyslexic friendly books to add to our collection!

📚 The first drop includes over 100 books for young people and kids.

What's different about these books?
✔️ dyslexic friendly font
✔️ layout friendly
✔️ thicker paper
✔️ off white or tinted pages

Check out the collection via our catalogue or look for the spine sticker next time you're browsing.

📚🌟 Discover the top ten authors borrowed from our libraries this month!

Which ones have you enjoyed? Share your thoughts and let us know who you're planning to read next!
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All library branches and the Civic Centre will closed on Monday 10 June for the King's Birthday public holiday.

Branches will reopen on Tuesday 11 June.

Check out our eLibrary while we're closed: https://bit.ly/3v42dma