Check it out

Have you caught up with our 'Check it Out' library newsletter yet? In the latest issue meet the library's new Chief Executive, Joseph Cullen.

You can pick it up at any of our branches or read it online.

View the Check it Out newsletter.

Cheers, Maryanne

New fiction titles @ the branches

Look out for the following fiction titles added to our branches lately:

Andy McNab ~ Aggressor
Clive Egleton ~ The last refuge
David Weber ~ Old soldiers
Dean Koontz ~ Forever Odd
Elmore Leonard ~ The hot kid
EV Thompson ~ The vagrant king
Jane Green ~ Life swap
John Francome ~ Cover up
John Saul ~ Perfect nightmare
Joy Dettman ~ One Sunday
Juliet Marillier ~ Blade of Fortriu (Book 2 The Bridei chronicles)
Linda Lael Miller ~ McKettrick’s choice
Martha Grimes ~ Belle ruin
Michael Dobbs ~ Churchill’s triumph
Pamela Oldfield ~ Summer lightning
Paullina Simons ~ The summer garden
Perri O’Shaughnessy ~ Case of lies
Piers Anthony ~ Pet peeve
Rita Mae Brown ~ The hunt ball
Sandra Brown ~ Chill factor
Sara Hylton ~ The longest day
Stephanie Laurens ~ On a stormy night
Stuart Woods ~ Iron orchid
Tamara McKinley ~ Dreamscapes
Tessa Barclay ~ A web of dreams
Tim LaHaye ~ The regime
Tim LaHaye/Bob Phillips ~ The Europa conspiracy (Babylon rising series)
Vince Flynn ~ Consent to kill

Search for them in our web catalogue. Type in your search in the box next to Find a Book. If you have a password on your card you can reserve books to be sent to your closest branch. It costs $2.20 per item for adults, $1.10 for govt. concession card holders, free reservations for children.

Find out about reserving and more with the catalogue tutorials.

Cheers, Maryanne

New non-fiction @ the library

Check out the following new non-fiction titles added to our libraries.

Andrew Denton ~ Enough rope with Andrew Denton (Vol3)
Anne De Courcy ~ Debs at war 1939-1945 : how wartime changed their lives
Ariel Levy ~ Female chauvinist pigs : women and the rise of raunch culture
Barbara Biggs ~ The accidental renovator : a Paris story
Brian Thacker ~ I’m not eating any of that foreign muck : travels with me Dad
Carole Radziwill ~ What remains : a memoir of fate, friendship and love
Chris Patten ~ Not quite the diplomat : home truths about world affairs
Christina Stead ~ Dearest Munx, the letters of Christina Stead and William J Blake
Clinton Heylin ~ Despite the system : Orson Welles versus the Hollywood studios
Curtis Stone ~ Cooking with Curtis : easy, everyday and adventurous recipes for the home cook
David Scott ~ Last flight out of Dili : memoirs of an accidental activist in the triumph of East Timor
Dr Phil McGraw ~ Love smart : find the one you want – fix the one you got
Edward Marriott ~ Claude and Madeleine : The Duff Cooper diaries 1915-1951
Frank McCourt ~ Teacher man : a memoir
Gavin Mortimer ~ The longest night : voices from the London blitz
Gough Whitlam ~ The truth of the matter
Heather Chapman/Judith Stillman ~ Melbourne then and now
Jenny Hocking ~ Frank Hardy : a political biography
Josiane Behmoiras ~ Dora B : a memoir of my mother
Judi Dench ~ Scenes from my life
Judith Raphael Buckrich ~ Collins : the story of Australia’s premier street
Kate Adie ~ Nobody’s child : who are you when you don’t know your past?
Kathy Gannon ~ I is for infidel : from Holy War to holy terror : 18 years inside Afghanistan
Madhur Jaffrey ~ Climbing the mango trees : a memoir of a childhood in India
Trisha Broadbridge/Jon Carnegie ~ Beyond the wave : a tsunami survivor’s story
Wilfred Burchett ~ Memoirs of a rebel journalist : the autobiography of Wilfred Burchett

Search for them in our web catalogue. Type in your search in the box next to Find a Book. If you have a password on your card you can reserve books to be sent to your closest branch. It costs $2.20 per item for adults, $1.10 for govt. concession card holders, free reservations for children.

Find out about reserving and more with the catalogue tutorials.

Cheers, Maryanne

New dvds @ our libraries

Sit back and relax while watching one of these great dvds just added to our collection.

'Round midnight
Arthur 2 : on the rocks
Bangkok Hilton
Black books
Body language live
Bread and tulips
Christmas with the Kranks
Clint Eastwood : out of the shadows
Cold Chisel : ringside : the movie
Come in spinner
Eurovision song contest : Kyiv 2005
Eva Cassidy sings
Howard Jones : 20th anniversary concert live at the Shepherd
In-line skating
Incubus : alive at Red Rocks
John Farnham and Tom Jones : together in concert
Lovely & amazing
Metallica : Metallica
Michael Collins
Monarchy : Dr. David Starkey travels back through the histor
Mythbusters
Phar Lap
Rolling Stones : four flicks
Soldier
Spiderbait : greatest hits
The adventures of Tintin
The bride with white hair 2
The dismissal
The General
The Normans : a dynasty that shaped the world
The other side of the bed
The polar express
The private life of Sherlock Holmes
The Saddle Club
These days : Powderfinger live in concert
Thin Lizzy : the boys are back in town
U2 go home : live from Slane Castle Ireland
Vietnam
Warming by the Devil's fire : a film by Charles Burnett


Search for them in our web catalogue. Type in your search in the box next to Find a Book. If you have a password on your card you can reserve dvds to be sent to your closest branch. It costs $2.20 per item for adults, $1.10 for govt. concession card holders, free reservations for children.

Find out about reserving and more with the catalogue tutorials.

Cheers, Maryanne

New cds @ our libraries

A stack of new cds have been added to the collection. Have a search for the following:

The 2006 Annual
Action against cruelty : whalewatch
Acoustic soul., Arie, India
Ahmad Jamal in concert., Jamal, Ahmad
Alex Lloyd., Lloyd, Alex
Amazing grace., Norman, Jessye
Bach cantatas., Bach, Johann Sebastian
Beethoven : Triple concerto ; Rondo in B flat ; Ch, Beethoven, Ludwig van
The best of the Capitol / Blue Note years., Davis, Miles
Best of the Corrs., Corrs (Musical group)
Big antiphonal singing of Min Nan Yu
Biographical index of South Australians, 1836-1885
Can'tneverdidnothin'., Costa, Nikka
Crew lists and agreements : for the years 1863 to
Discovering Shakespeare
The first emperor of China
Folk songs
Follow me to fly., Qu, Ying
Girl of the Da Ban city
Granny's Peng Hu Bay., Pan, Anbang
Have a nice day., Bon Jovi (Musical group)
Here come the drums., Rogue Traders (Musical group)
In memory of Luo Wen., Luo, Wen
The infinite Steve Vai : an anthology., Vai, Steve
Intensive care., Williams, Robbie
The Italian., Buanne, Patrizio
John McCormack., McCormack, John
Kathleen, Ferrier., Ferrier, Kathleen
Late autumn., Mao, Ning
Le jazz hot : the quintet of the Hot Club of Franc, Reinhardt, Django
Lift., Noll, Shannon
Love songs., Lee, Peggy
Love theme., Xu, Ruyun
Mavis Beacon teaches typing
Memory on the lock., Pan, Yueyun
Michelangelo., Nolin, Olivier
Musee d'Orsay : virtual visit., Brisson, Dominique
Night dreamer., Shorter, Wayne
Nostalgia., Wang, Zhi Lei
On my way to absence., Jurado, Damien
Paul Robeson., Robeson, Paul
PCD., Pussycat Dolls
Piece by piece., Melua, Katie
Pompeii virtual tour
Popular on line., Xiao, Wei
Popular on line : tropical forest., Xiao, Wei
Prairie trio
Rattle conducts Britten., Britten, Benjamin
Reincarnation of a lovebird., Mingus, Charles
Remix heaven
The same song
See my lover away on trip
Selected shorts., Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks (Musical group)
Shame., Guang, Ling
She will have her way : the songs of Tim and Neil
Til the wheels fall off., Rigby, Amy
Ultimate Isaac Hayes : can you dig it?, Hayes, Isaac
Ultimate tango album
Voyage to India., Arie, India
The west is induced : the best of music
Wild Summer 2006
World War Two : stories and archives
You could have it so much better., Ferdinand, Franz
You never know my love., Chen, Lin

Search for them in our web catalogue. Type in your search in the box next to Find a Book. If you have a password on your card you can reserve cds to be sent to your closest branch. It costs $2.20 per item for adults, $1.10 for govt. concession card holders, free reservations for children.

Find out about reserving and more with the catalogue tutorials.

Cheers, Maryanne

Christmas and New Year Hours

I've just updated the Christmas and New Year Hours for our branches and mobiles. It might be worth printing and keeping aside.

View the library Christmas & New Year hours

If you have a password on your library card you may renew your items through the web catalogue. Instructions may be found at the Catalogue tutorials. If you haven't got a password, just phone or visit one of our libraries and the staff will set one up for you.

Have a happy and safe Christmas break.

Cheers, Maryanne

Top 10 books of 2005

What were the top books this year? The following list has been generated by the number of reservations placed on books at Eastern Regional Libraries in 2005. How many have you read?


TOP 10 READS 2005

J K Rowling ~ Harry Potter and the half-blood prince
Patricia Cornwell ~ Predator
Nora Roberts ~ Black rose
Wendy Harmer ~ Farewell my ovaries
Jung Chang ~ Mao : the unknown story
Janet Evanovich ~ Eleven on top
P D James ~ The lighthouse
Anita Shreve ~ A wedding in December
Mark Latham ~ The Latham diaries
Geraldine Brooks ~ March

Cheers, Maryanne

Most blogged books for 2005

Wonder what everyone has been talking about in their blogs this year? Check out the following New York Times article, A Selection of the Most Blogged-About Books of 2005.

I only guessed a couple of these.

Cheers, Maryanne

Top kids and teen reads 2005

Hello everyone, I'm back from a relaxing time at the beach. Thanks to Adam for all of his great blogs.

Well it's the time of year to reflect on our favourite books for 2005. The following kids and teen lists have been collated from the many reviews at our 4 kids and teen online sites.

Kids

1. Avalon series by Rachel Roberts
2. Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
Eq3. Best Friends by Jacqueline Wilson
Eq3. Diamond Girls by Jacqueline Wilson
Eq3. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
6. Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine
Eq7. Bed and breakfast star by Jacqueline Wilson
Eq7. Parvana series by Deborah Ellis
Eq7. Redwall series by Brian Jacques


Teens

1. Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson
2. Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants by Ann Brashares
Eq3. Bad Girlz by Shannon Holmes
Eq3. Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Eq5. Black Taxi by James Moloney
Eq5. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Eq5. Finding Cassie Crazy by Jaclyn Moriarty
Eq5. Graduation Summer #2 Never Say Good-bye by Nancy Butcher
Eq5. Noughts and Crosses by Marjorie Blackman

Cheers, Maryanne

Summer Reading Club

Hello fellow websurfers,


Eastern Regional Libraries is a part of a huge nationwide
summer reading club. Read around OZ is going to be huge
and you or someone a bit younger than you, who might be interested in reading 10 books or more over the summer, and in turn receive a grouse sticker, book mark and tattoo.

Its free to join and lots of fun, so much so that I might even give it a go. You can join up your nearest Eastern Regional Library branch and at the end of summer before school starts we will have a big party at Ferntree Gully Library.

Well that's all from me, happy browsing, and until next time, keep exploring and investigating the World Wide Web

Adam

Green Thumb alert

Hello Internet experts

Don't get your thumb stuck in the Christmas pud, get a green one instead
by joining the Library Growers and Weeders group at Mooroolbark on the 16th of December at 2pm. Have a chat, swap a plant, or grab the
latest gardening books in our regional collection.

So if you're handy with the secateurs, clever with the clippers, or just want
to know the best way to cultivate a seedling, come along and you might
even take home the giveaway fromKuranga Native Nursery

I hope I have a planted a 'seed' of interest, and after that sad joke I will
blog off

Until we blog again
Adam

CD and music scores

Hello Web wanderers,

If you missed out on seeing the Foo Fighters, or did not get any tickets for U2, or just get stuck in the car with nothing to listen to, you can always grab a CD or audio book.

Have you ever wondered where ERL kept all their music scores, I know I have. Well, you can find them up at Belgrave.

The Loan period is 4 weeks for both and they can make the most boring of trips or afternoons enjoyable.

So fellow web wanderers grab a tune and have a bit of fun.

Signing out
Adam

Rowville's New Chinese Collection

Greetings websurfers, I'm back again and this
time its just to let you know about a new Chinese
collection being launched at Rowville Library.

On Saturday the 17th of December, Eastern Regional Libraries
will be launching a collection of Chinese DVDs and books.

Please join us between 10am and 1pm at Rowville
Library in the Stud Park Shopping Centre (under the Clocktower).

For more details you can contact Rowville Library on 9294 1300

Enjoy, until I blog again,

Adam

More DVDs and a new blogger

Hello fellow bloggers and bloggeresses, or maybe just web surfers. My name is Adam and I will be your Maryanne (in a certain manner) for the next couple of weeks. As this is my first blog, I will keep it simple, sodown below you will find a list of our latest DVDs that we have added to our Catalogue:
Spiderbait : greatest hits
The Saddle ClubIn-line skating
The dismissal
Vietnam
Lovely & amazing
Monarchy : Dr. David Starkey travels back through the histor
'Round midnight
Clint Eastwood : out of the shadows
Bangkok Hilton
Body language live
Eva Cassidy sings

Search for them in our web catalogue <http://www.erl.vic.gov.au/>.Type in your search in the box next to Find a Book. If you have apassword on your card you can reserve books, cds and dvds to be sentto your closest branch. It costs $2.20 per item for adults, $1.10 forgovt. concession card holders, free reservations for children.Find out about reserving and more with the catalogue tutorials<http://www.erl.vic.gov.au/using/tutorial.htm>.

Jump onto the web, drop us a line or just browse

Thats it from me and that my first blog, mission accomplished!

Cheers, Adam

Bryce Courtenay at Borders

Are you a Bryce Courtenay fan? Bryce will be at Borders Bookstore, Knox City on Thursday 8th December 12:30pm promoting his latest title Whitethorn.

Get a signed copy!

For more details check his website at http://www.brycecourtenay.com.

Cheers Maryanne