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Come and see the Noiseguy Charlie Williams!

To kick off the new year we have the Noiseguy, Charlie Williams performing at the library as our first fantastic school holiday activity for 2011.

Charlie Williams, the zany czar of sound, is a kids comedian and vocal sound impressionist. He teaches humor as a life skill and shows kids how to put some ompf into onomatopoeia.

He has been performing full time for 10 years, published 3 books and released 8 albums of noisy fun. Enjoy traditional and not-so-traditional stories told in an energetic new way.


Good, noisy, family fun! Friday, January 7th at 2.00pm.


Tickets are only $2.50 available from the library, or ring 02 9605 5336 for more information.


Why not check out Charlie's Website 

Richard Glover

We were lucky enough to have a visit from Richard Glover on Wednesday night. Those hardy souls who braved the rain enjoyed a very funny talk from Richard, who told us something about the process of writing and how he gets his inspiration for his work. There was also time for the audience to ask questions.

 Richard very generously spent quite a long time signing books and talking to people after the formal part of his talk, which was much appreciated.

Overall it was a fitting end to our series of Talking Heads author visits for 2010. Hopefully we'll be able to line up some great writers again in 2011!

Macarthur Nature Photography Competition

You can see the entries in the Macathur Nature Photography Competition at Ingleburn Library at the moment. There are some beautiful photographs, all taken in the Macarthur area - it's amazing the natural beauty that can be found locally.

For more Information about the competition, go here . Come and check out the exhibition, and why not have a go at entering the competition next year?

Richard Glover @ Ingleburn Library

Richard Glover is the author of twelve books, including Why Men Are Necessary - a collection of his comic pieces as featured on ABC radio's Thank God It's Friday. His weekly humour column has been published in the Sydney Morning Herald for over twenty years.

His books have been published in Poland and Italy. He's also author of Desperate Husbands, In bed with Jocasta, The Dag's Dictionary, and The P-Plate Parent (co-written with Angela Webber). His book The Mud House - the story of building a mud-brick house in the middle of nowhere with no power tools - was published in 2009.

Richard has written a few stage shows, including Lonestar, a stage show about country music, which toured nationally with Genevieve Lemon, and A Christmas Story, which was performed at the Sydney Opera House, with Richard Wherrett directing. He was also one of the co-authors of Breast Wishes.

Richard Glover has written two short novels for children - The Dirt Experiment and The Joke Trap. And a version of the Dag's Dictionary for kids, under the title The No-Minute Noodler.

Richard Glover will be talking about his latest book, Why Men Are Necessary , at Ingleburn Library on Wednesday, December 1st at 7.30pm. Tickets are $5, available at the library.

What about the Genres?

About five years ago, in response to some feedback from our customers, we divided the fiction collection at Ingleburn into Genres. The reasoning was that people usually like to read the same kinds of books, for example mysteries or romances. By grouping all the same kind of fiction together, we wanted to make it easier for our customers to find their favourite kind of books, and also to help them locate other authors who write in the same genre. At the same time, we kept a General Fiction section, for books that are hard to categorise, or which straddle two or more genres.

The change was one of the most popular things we ever did to the collection, based on the feedback we recieved. Of course, there are some customers who preferred the old arrangement. But frankly we were surprised by how much positive feedback we got! It was very satisfying - we like happy customers!

Over time we've made a few tweaks to the fiction genres. This year we've made a couple of major changes, adding the Classics and Chick Lit genres. We've wanted to add a Classics section for a long time, and a big donation of classics at the end of last year allowed us to form a basis for this collection. And the Chick Lit collection is a response to trends in popular fiction, and is proving to be one of our most popular genres.

Have you checked out the Readers Lounge  at the main Campbelltown Library website? There are some great links there for avid readers, where you can find information on new authors in your favourite genre, best seller lists, which books come in which order in series and the book version of your favourite film. It's worth checking out.

How do the Zones work?

People have been asking about our non-fiction Zones. The idea behind the zones is to group recreational or popular non-fiction together in one area, rather than have it spread out in different areas of the library. For example, the Children and Parenting Zone has materials in it from the 150, 300 and 600 Dewey classifications. Traditionally, these items would have been spread out around the library building - the Zones are an attempt to bring them all together.

More academic, or "study" materials are still in their traditional Dewey number order, in the main non-fiction section of the library.

Many libraries are trying different ways of organising their collections these days, to try to meet the changing needs of our customers. The Dewey classification system can be confusing for many people, and while it works well for academic libraries it doesn't always work for a modern public library. Hopefully the Zones allow people to sit and browse through all the books and magazines in the area they are interested in. And they have a great view of the park!

At present our Zones are: Technology, which includes computers and machines of all kinds; Arts, Crafts and Hobbies, which is pretty much as it sounds; Body, Mind and Spirit, including self-help, exercise and matters spiritual; Children and Parenting; Travel, and lastly, Biographies.

What do you think of our Zones? Do you like them? Hate them? Didn't know they existed? Let us know in comments.