Hobsons Bay Libraries

🔥 Kate Solly - Writer will be joining us for a conversation about writing, books, cosy winters and craft. 📖

Kate has penned many articles, columns and reviews for various publications and is the author of 'Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance' and 'The Paradise Heights Craft Store Stitch-Up'.

When she is not writing, she enjoys starting crochet projects and never finishing them.

Bring your crochet, knitting or sewing project, settle in, and enjoy a warm drink with Kate - and get motivated to continue on with the Warm Winter Read.

📆 Tuesday 21 July
⌚ 6pm to 7pm
📍 Newport Community Hub
🔗 For more info or to book: https://bit.ly/4gzWEBB

Public Libraries Victoria

📢📢 The school holidays doesn't have to break the bank.

Did you know that the library has an extensive Library of Things that include things like consoles, console games, board games, projectors and STEAM games for kids (and adults)?

The collection is a free to borrow with your library card - just like a book!

Slide one - Switch games
Slide two - Nex playgound (age 5+)
Slide three - Multiplication slam (age 8+)
Slide four - Go bum (age 4+)
Slide five - Metal detector (age 6+)
Slide six - Colour and light science kit (age 3+)

🔗Browse the entire collection here: https://bit.ly/4xGoMt9

📢 School finishes next week and we're ready with a fun and crafty school holiday program!

🔗 Check out the program! https://bit.ly/48DLkjH

📢Due to protected industrial action on Wednesday 17 June, Williamstown Library will be closed for the day.

Return chutes will remain open. Your nearest branch is Newport Community Hub.

Story Time at Seabrook Community Centre is also cancelled.

Please check Council’s website for updated information on Wednesday 17 June.

We appreciate your patience and understanding.

📖 Join us next week for a special talk with authors Casey Nott and Emma Mugglestone.

Discussing Casey's latest book, 'Five Stages of Grace', the authors will explore a range of powerful and personal topics, including:

🖋 What it’s like to be a young person living with cancer
🖋 How grief evolves over time
🖋 Life after cancer
🖋 How writing has shaped their lives for the better
🖋 Their writing and publication journeys
🖋 Why telling women’s stories matters so deeply

Join us for an honest and thought-provoking discussion that celebrates resilience, storytelling, and the power of lived experience.

📆 Wednesday 24 June
⌚️ 6.30pm to 7.30pm
📍 Altona Library
🔗 For more info or to book: https://bit.ly/4aTfyzN

Emma Mugglestone Hawkeye Books

📙 Reading is more than just picking up a book with extensive research showing reading can provide many health benefits.

Here are top 5 reasons to join in the Warm Winter Read:
1. Reading reduces stress - reading for five-minutes a day has been shown to reduce stress.
2. Reading makes us feel less lonely - reading is a solitary act, but studies show that reading can make us feel more connected and less alone.
3. Reading helps us get a better night's sleep - unlike other activities of leisure such as watching TV or using social media, reading associates with an emotionally and mentally 'engaged' form of relaxation.
4. Reading reduces risk of depression - research suggests that regular reading may also correlate with improvements to mental health conditions such as depression.
5. Reading help us understand difficult situations - research from the University of Liverpool surveyed readers who said a book helped them realise that other people have gone through something similar and feel better about their life.

Join up to the Warm Winter Read and reconnect with reading this winter.
Warm Winter Read runs until 31 August and there are great prizes to be won.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4dB7xS7

*Facts sourced from Reads, https://australiareads.org.au/news/benefits-reading-mental-health/

☁ Discover CloudLibrary – eBooks and Audiobooks. CloudLibrary gives you FREE access to thousands of eBooks and eAudiobooks, all in one easy-to-use app.

Explore curated shelves like:
📚 Warm Winter Reads,
📚 Swift Reads (for high-demand titles)
📚 Read-alongs for Children (eBooks that also have audio, so the reader can listen while they read)
📚 Thrilling mysteries and crime
📚 even books in Hindi

It’s a great option if you enjoy reading or listening digitally—or if the print copy you’re after is currently on loan.

Getting started is simple:
1⃣ Download the CloudLibrary app from the Hobsons Bay Libraries eCollections page
2⃣ Log in with your library card
3⃣ Browse, borrow and enjoy—all for free

Whether you're curled up at home or on the go, CloudLibrary makes reading and listening more accessible than ever.

🧣 Join up to Warm Winter Read today to win some great prizes and return yourself to a book.

🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/4dB7xS7

⬆ It's winter which means energy use rises. 🪙

Join us for this practical session where we will share simple, low- or no-cost ways to reduce energy use, lower household bills and improve comfort in both summer and winter.

Participants will learn how small changes in everyday habits and home set-ups can add up to real savings.

This is session two of a three-part series.

📆 Wednesday 10 June
⌚️ 6pm to 7.30pm
📍 Altona Library
🔗 For more info or to book: https://bit.ly/4xdS7e8

✨ Last days! 💫

🖌 Donate unused rolls of fabric, knitting needles, or other craft supplies to the library and help support creativity in our community! ✂

Donated supplies will be used for programming at the Altona Meadows Makerspace and at Louis Joel Arts & Community. This initiative is being run to celebrate World Environment Day and aims to promote sustainable reuse and recycling of craft materials.

Here's what we're looking for:
- Rolls of cotton fabric (between 1-5m)
- Rolls of canvas (between 1-5m)
- Knitting needles (no singular needles, only pairs)
- Crochet needles
- Sewing thread (must be more than half remaining on spool)
- Yarn (unused)
- Buttons
- Velcro tape (unused)
- Zippers (unused)
- Iron-on patches
- Paint brushes (unused)
- Craft wire
- Mosaic tiles (new)
- Ceramics tools (unused)
- Coloured pencils, markers and/or crayons (neatly bundled or unopened)
- Cardstock and craft paper (unused)

Craft donations can be dropped off at any Hobsons Bay library branches during opening hours until Sunday 7 June.

🔗 For more details: https://bit.ly/4ffr6jW

📝 Exams are drawing near. Access FREE one-on-one tutoring support with Studiosity. It's easy to use and also available from home.

1. Log in with your library card and pin/password
2. Follow the prompts to establish your grade
3. Find the subjects you need assistance with

Depending on the time you log in, get can get live assistance or submit your work for review and have it returned to you within a time frame.

🔗 Access Studiosity: https://bit.ly/4kVVOyY