What's on tomorrow at ERL?

It's a busy day tomorrow with several great activities.

First up it's the Belgrave Genie Exchange. Come along and meet fellow genealogists in your local areea. Swap research stories, help others and in turn be helped with your own research.

When: Thursday 12th November 10am
Where: Belgrave Library, Reynolds Lane, Belgrave
Cost: Free event
No need to book, just come along

Also at 10am we have Bookchat at Mooroolbark Library. Have you read anything interesting lately? Come along and share it with others.



When: Thursday 12th November 10am

Where: Mooroolbark Library, 7 Station Street, Mooroolbark
Cost: Free event
No need to book, just come along

At Croydon Library at 12:30pm, Book Bites welcomes author Lisa Lang. Lisa Lang has been garnering prizes for several years, starting with storywriting competitions including our own ERL competition. She was awarded the a place in the Australian Society of Authors Mentorship Program in 2007, and this year she was named as the joint winner of the prestigious Vogel Award. Her manuscript Utopian Man a fiction work based on the life of E W Cole will be published by Allen and Unwin in mid 2010.

In the meantime Lisa has also written the excellent small biography based on her researches into Cole of the Book Arcade Chasing the Rainbow (2007).

When: Thursday 12th November 12:30pm

Where: Croydon Library, Civic Sq, Croydon

Cost: $10 (includes lunch)
Bookings essential phone 92945640

Cheers, Maryanne

Croydon Library

Croydon Library will be closed on Friday 20th November 10am-1pm for major electrical work. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Cheers, Maryanne

Victorian libraries survey - Tell us what you think

Did you make a trip to the library today? Please complete the Victorian Libraries survey.

Complete the Victorian public libraries survey

All Victorian public libraries are participating in a survey of users about how you use the library and the benefits you get. A particular focus of the study is to show the value of public library services to the community in specific dollar terms.

The information from the study will be used to show government how valuable libraries are to people in Victoria and the benefits obtained from the money used to provide them.

Your responses will be kept confidential. They will only be reported as an Eastern Regional Libraries group.

Cheers, Maryanne

WiFi at Ferntree Gully Library

We now have a WiFi hotspot at Ferntree Gully Library. What do you need to access WiFi? Firstly you'll need a device with a wireless network adapter like a laptop, PDA or phone. Secondly you'll need your library card number starting 20023 and PIN (library staff will be able to look this up if you don't know).

Cheers, Maryanne

Ranges Mobile

The Ranges Mobile is off the road today, Monday 9th November, due to rostering difficulties. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Items may be renewed through our web catalogue or via the phone at any of our branches, phone 1300 737 277.

Cheers, Maryanne

A workaround for viewing My Account in Opera

Thanks to Andrew for suggesting a workaround for Opera users when using the Review My Account screen.

1. Go to our catalogue in Opera at http://swft.erlc.sirsidynix.net.au.
2. Go to Tools > Quick Preferences > Edit Site Preferences in the browser menu at the top.
3. Click on the Network tab
4. Select either Identify as Firefox or Identify as Internet Explorer from the drop-down box. Also works if you select Mask.
   

I tested it with Opera 10 and it works fine. You'll be able to see the checkouts and holds.

Cheers, Maryanne

New WiFi & Internet application form

We frequently have visitors to our libraries who just want to access the Internet or WiFi hotspot but aren't necessarily wanting to borrow from our libraries. So we have created a new type of membership. It's creatively called WiFi/Internet membership. You'll be able to join up to the new WiFi & Internet membership from Monday 9th November.

A few things you need to know:

• You don't need to join up again if you already have an Eastern Regional Libraries membership card.
• The membership will expire after 12 months. Once it expires just see staff and they will renew your membership again.
• You can always have your card activated so that you can borrow books if you choose.
• You'll need a parent/guardian to sign for you if you're under 18 years.
• You'll need to show identification to join (e.g. licence)
• You'll also get access to our online resources
  

At present we'll get people to join up in person at the branches.

Cheers, Maryanne

WiFi now available at Lilydale Library

We now have a WiFi hotspot at Lilydale Library. What do you need to access WiFi? Firstly you'll need a device with a wireless network adapter like a laptop, PDA or phone. Secondly you'll need your library card number starting 20023 and PIN (library staff will be able to look this up if you don't know).

Cheers, Maryanne