April School Holiday Activities and Youth Week

The theme for Youth Week 2012 is ‘Imagine. Create. Inspire’ and to celebrate, Campbelltown City Library is holding a number of activities, especially for young adults, between Sunday 1 April and Sunday 22 April.

Bookings available from Monday 2 April.

Special Effects Make-Up Class

Where: HJ Daley Library

When: Monday 16 April

Time: 2pm - 3.15pm

Age: 12 - 18 years

Cost: $2.00

Bookings essential

Phone: 4645 4444

Ever wondered how make-up artists achieve realistic looking wounds and effects on your favourite characters in TV shows and films?  This class will teach you how special-effects make-up works and demonstrate some of these effects on lucky participants.

Manga Workshop

Where: Glenquarie Branch Library

When: Thursday 19 April

Time: 2pm - 4pm

Age: 12 - 18 years

Cost: $2.00

Bookings essential

Phone: 4645 4055

Want to learn how to draw Japanese style comics and manga?  This workshop will teach you a range of techniques to inspire your own manga character creations.

Book Review Competition

Write a review of a new young adult novel and you could have it published in the Macarthur Chronicle!

Ages: 12 - 25 years

Opens: Sunday 1 April

Closes: Sunday 22 April

For more information, pick up an entry form from any Campbelltown City Library Branch.

Invention Competition

As part of the heritage festival, Campbelltown City Library is asking you to create your own invention! Your invention will be on display during the festival and you'll have the opportunity to win a wonderful prize.

Competition is open to ages 15 years and younger. Please collect an entry form at any Campbelltown City Library Branch.

For more information, please phone 4645 4444.

Your Tutor - Online Homework Help for Students

Campbelltown Library Service is again offering YourTutor - an online live homework help service for students from Year 4 - 12.

Students can access YourTutor at home or in the Library from Monday to Friday between 4pm – 8pm. YourTutor offers study support from a qualified online tutor covering subjects such as Mathematics, Science, English and assignment research skills.

Campbelltown Library service offers YourTutor to students free of charge. Students only need their library card number to login to YourTutor from the library’s website.

January School Holidays 2012

During the Janary school holidays, Campbelltown City Library will be running a number of activities for children and teens. Below is a list of all the great activities aimed at young adults which will be run through the library. To see all the activities that are running council wide, check out the Summer Holiday Flyer.

Bookings start Monday 12 December. Bookings are essential.

Cartooning Workshop

Date: Monday 16 January
Where: Eagle Vale Branch Library

Time: 2pm - 4pm

Ages: 12 - 18 years

Cost: $2

Want to learn how to draw faces, animals, monsters and cartoon lettering? This workshop will teach you a range of simple techniques, tips and tricks to inspire your own cartoon creations.

Self-Defence Class

Date: Tuesday 17 January
Where: Ingleburn Community Hall

Time: 2pm - 4pm

Ages: 12 - 18 years

Cost: $2

Teens will learn a mix of martial arts techniques in a fun learning environment which will empower and challenge them.

Car Maintenance Workshop

Date: Tuesday January 24
Where: HJ Daley Library (Staff Carpark)

Time: 2pm - 3.30pm

Ages: 15- 18 years

Cost: Free

Are you learning to drive? Just bought your first car?

A qualified car mechanic will show teens basic car maintenance skills, such as changing a tyre, checking under the bonnet for oil and water levels and many other useful tips and tricks you might need when on the road.

Summer Reading Club

 
Get ready for an Amazing Read at Campbelltown City Library this summer.

Campbelltown City Library is inviting teens to come in and join the Summer Reading Club.

The Summer Reading Club is a free school holiday program with activities designed especially for children and teens from birth to 16 years old and their families and friends.

Themed The Amazing Read, the Club explores the many different places and spaces to read and the incredible places stories can take you – from the past to outer-space.

The Summer Reading Club is a great way to kick off the National Year of Reading 2012 and promote reading as a fun and enjoyable experience.

The Club is run through the interactive website http://www.summerreadingclub.org.au/ as well exciting activities and events held at the Campbelltown City Library.

Pop into the library to register to participate in the program, receive your free starter pack, go into the draw to win great prizes and have lots of fun. Registrations start on Monday 5 December and you have until Sunday 22 January to return your reading log.

Happy Reading!

Pop Culture Explosion!

Campbelltown City Library has purchased lots of new manga, graphic novels, comics and anime for you to borrow. New graphic novels added to the collection include Scott Pilgrim, Black Butler, Toradora, Bakuman, World of Warcraft, Simpsons, Twilight, Vampire Academy and heaps more!

Come down to HJ Daley library to check out the awesome display and see all the new material available on the shelf. Our very own Reference Librarian, Alan, is responsible for all the amazing drawings you see below!

How many characters from your favourite comics can you spot?



Book Week 2011

The theme for this years Children’s Book Week is ‘One World, Many Stories’ and runs from 20 – 26 August 2011.

Six YA books have made the Older Reader shortlist. The short-listed books are:

Graffiti Moon –Cath Crowley

Midnight Zoo – Sonya Hartnett

About a Girl – Joanne Horniman

The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher – Doug MacLeod

The Piper’s son – Melina Marchetta

Six Impossible Things – Fiona Wood

To see the complete list of short-listed books, visit the CBCA website.

The winners will be announced at 12pm EST on Friday 19 August.