NAIDOC Week celebrations are held around Australia from 8-15 November 2020 – but you can also celebrate at home: Beamafilm offers a great range of First Nations films, available for you to stream for free with your library membership.

Below is a selection of some of the titles now available – but there are more!

Have your library membership card handy and click here to find out how to access your free Beamafilm account.

Your library membership gives you free access to tens of thousands of e-books and e-audiobooks with cloudLibrary.

The cloudLibrary app can be downloaded to your phone or tablet for a personalised reading experience. New app features have recently been released, including:

Choose from 6 fonts, including OpenDyslexic

Select your preferred format, including Large Print and Sepia settings

Advanced settings allow you to personalise your reading experience to suit your own needs

If you’re already using cloudLibrary, we encourage you to update the app whenever an update is available.

If you’re new to cloudLibrary, click here to find out more!

It’s Book Week, and today we are featuring the Eve Pownall Award for factual illustrated works, to reserve a title please click on the image and place a hold with your library card.

 Please click here⇓ to find out the 2020 CBCA Book of the Year Awards winners

Children’s Book Week 2020 is almost upon us, so here is an opportunity to get familiar with some of Australia’s best writers for young readers, and understand why they have been shortlisted by the Children’s Book Council of Australia.

Today we are featuring the shortlisted titles for older readers (13 to 18 years of age). Please click on the image to place a hold on the item.

Navigating life as a parent is as challenging as it is rewarding. Sometimes you meet these challenges spot on, but sometimes you could do with a little help from friends or family.

And other times you will look for answers or a bit of motivation from experts who have extensive knowledge of pregnancy, babies, raising kids, sleeping patterns and so on. 

This week, we are featuring a few of those books,  but we would also like you to know that we have many more resources to borrow here on the Parent Shelf at the Augusta and Margaret River libraries.

Titles with this symbol are also available as e-Books or e-Audiobooks

Some countries (like France and Italy!) are starting to re-open for tourism; however, here in Australia we are still waiting for the day we can hit the skies again.

That doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to dream and plan your next trip. With that in mind, we’ve got you covered with an array of new Lonely Planet guides available to borrow online with CloudLibrary.

From Austria to Azerbaijan, or from Madagascar to Mauritius – wherever your intended destination, click on the image below to explore the collection.

Need help accessing CloudLibrary or any of our other Online Resources? No problem, click here to find some short video tutorials as well as written guidelines, that will explain it all to you.

The libraries are friendly, easily accessible and comfortable places to spend some time when out and about in the community.

As well as being dementia friendly places to visit, the Margaret River and Augusta Libraries provide resources that can assist people living with dementia, inform their family and friends and their carers. Pop in to say hello and just ask if you need a hand to find what you are looking for.

The Dementia Friendly Town project, an initiative of Alzheimer’s WA, empowers rural communities to support people living with dementia to live as well as possible for as long as possible. With support from the Shire of Augusta Margaret River and the local Rotary and Lions Clubs, Alzheimer’s WA has worked with the local community, including businesses, in a whole of town approach to becoming dementia friendly.

Videos made during the project highlight how we can all help to enhance the quality of life for people living with dementia in our town. Alzheimer’s WA has kindly given permission to use the Margaret River videos available online at www.alzheimerswa.org.au “Copyright to Alzheimer’s WA 2020” 

“Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low carbon world? Should we frack?”… “Does it all come down to population?”… “What on earth can any of us do?”  – There is no planet B by Mike Berners-Lee

Expand your knowledge and find possible solutions for some of the most pressing issues of our times with our latest selection of New Books.

Some titles are so popular that you can have quite a few people ahead of you while you wait for your turn, even after you’ve placed a Hold.

You can practise patience, knowing that the item will eventually get to you… or you might like to get access more quickly via one of our e-book and e-audio platforms.

The items listed below are in-demand titles that are also available in digital formats. You may find your long-awaited book is ready to be downloaded to your tablet or phone right now! But even if there is a wait, you may well find that the digital copy becomes available before the physical copy.

Look for these symbols which tell you which platforms are offering the titles:

= cloudLibrary        = BorrowBox          = Overdrive

If you are new to e-books and e-audio, click here to discover more information about cloudLibrary, BorrowBox and Overdrive, including links to instructions for first-time users.

In-demand Fiction Titles:

Bruny. By Heather Rose

Available as e-book               

Girl, woman, other. By Bernadine Evariston

Available as e-book               

Available as e-audiobook             

Mirror and the light. By HIlary Mantel

Available as e-book               

Available as e-audiobook           

The weekend. By Charlotte Wood

Available as e-book               

The yield. By Tara June Winch

Available as e-book               

Available as e-audiobook               

Where the crawdads sing. By Delia Owens

Available as e-book     

Available as e-audiobook   

In-demand Non-Fiction Titles:

Activate your vagus nerve: unleash your body’s natural ability to overcome gut sensitivities, inflammation, brain fog, autoimmunity, anxiety, depression. By Habib Navas.

Available as e-audiobook  

Educated. By Tara Westover.

Available as e-book               

Available as e-audiobook               

First we make the beast beautiful: a new story about anxiety. by Sarah Wilson

Available as e-book               

Available as e-audiobook       

Sand talk: how indigenous thinking can save the world. By Tyson Yunkaporta

Available as e-book               

The longevity paradox: how to die young at a ripe old age. By Steven Gundry

Available as e-book               

Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race. By Reni Eddo-Lodge

Available as e-book               

Road trips are so much more fun when you’re listening to something entertaining along the way.

Our library members have free access to tens of thousands of downloadable audiobook titles via cloudLibrary, BorrowBox and Overdrive.

No need to fill your suitcase with discs – simply download the titles to your phone or tablet before you hit the road.

If you’re new to downloadable e-resources, you can click here to view videos and guidelines to assist with the set up. It’s very easy; just have your library card number handy and make sure you’re connected to wifi for the download.

Below is a tiny sample of titles available at cloudLibrary (just to tempt you!)

Happy travels!