Celebrate CBCA Book Week with StoryBox

StoryBox has everything you need to celebrate Children’s Books Week with your child.

Think of StoryBox Library as an online ‘reading room’, providing a vibrant, interactive experience via a diverse range of everyday storytellers – actors, comedians, sports people, musicians, artists, authors, children – with varying accents and from different cultures, each sharing past and present book titles. The result is meaningful, entertaining readings that focus on both teller and tale.

Bring your child(ren) to the library to visit the Children’s Book Week display and get some activities to do with StoryBox.

StoryBox is free with your library card. Visit our library eResources pages to find out what else is available for you.


Get some help with that essay!

You can use your library card to access free essay-writing feedback via Studiosity

Have your essay and library card handy to log in. Select the Writing Feedback option and submit your essay. Tutors can provide assistance from year 3 through to TAFE and early university levels.

Click here for more information about Studiosity and other educational support available with your library membership.

 

Book clubs rejoice, more titles for simultaneous read

Our CLoudLibrary collection is growing with many titles available for simultaneous borrowing, making it ideal for book clubs. Below is just a sample, but you can explore the whole collection clicking on the image.

Cover Image for the Book After Story by Larissa Behrendt Cover Image for the Book Blood & Ink by Brett Adams Cover Image for the Book Cover Story by Susan Rigetti Cover Image for the Book The Ghost of Grace Flynn by Joanna Morrison Cover Image for the Book What is left over after by Natasha Lester

Not sure how to use CloudLibrary, or would you like to know what other eResources available to you and your book club? Click here to explorer the collection and watch the tutorial, or contact  eServices Librarian Ana Brawls, on abrawls@amrshire.au.gov.au to book an info and training session for you and your book club to learn how to get your ebooks and eaudios.

 

The Library is an inclusive and accessible venue.

Switch on your borrowing history!

Would you like to view your borrowing history? It can be very helpful if you can’t remember the name of that book you wanted to revisit or recommend.

You can now switch on this feature in the library catalogue – this is how:

My Account heads a dropdown menu from which Profile can be selected.

  • Look for the Borrowing history heading, and switch on ‘Enable my borrowing history’:

Under the heading of Borrwoing history there is a toggle button to switch on 'Enable my borrowing history'Your borrowing history will build from the day you switch it on, with each new check-out retained for 5 years.

eMagazines now on BorrowBox

BorrowBox is proud to announce the much-anticipated arrival of eMagazines.

Simultaneous access to the best range of must-have Australian and International magazine publications are now available to our members.

Visit https://amrlibrary.borrowbox.com/  , or if you already have the BorrowBox app, check the bottom of your screen for the Magazines tab to start making most of this fantastic eresource.

BorrowBox e magazines

Please contact the library on 08 9780 5600 if you have any questions, or if you would like to know more about our extensive range of eResources.

 

Google Photos, Snapchat, and other tutorials available now

This month the Library Academy has four new tutorials available for you to get a better understanding of some trending apps.

Learn to send and receive photos with Snapchat. Create an account and start managing your photos with Google Photos, increase your employability with LinkedIn, or build a personal or professional network with Instagram.

You can also complement these tutorials with the TechTalk: What is social media?

For these and other tutorials visit our Augusta Margaret River Libraries Academy (nicheacademy.com)

Niche academy

niche academy

 

Our digital collection is growing

Enjoy a larger selection of award-winning books, best sellers, crime & thriller, non-fiction and many more titles in eAudios and eBooks formats with CloudLibrary.

Book how to calm your mind by chris bailey book marie kondo's kurashi at home book plains of promise by alexis wright
audio book stella maris by cormac mccarthy book wrong place wrong time by gillian mcallister book one woman's war by christine wells

Explore the collection here.

You can also read many popular titles on our Magazine Collection using the CloudLibrary app.

Share stories about Christmas with Story Box

Merry Christmas!!

Story Box has a special selection of festive stories for you to watch with your family.

Enjoy books like Pig the Elf read by the author Aaron Blabey, or Macca’s Christmas Crackers told by storyteller Dolly Diamond. There are many more fun and entertaining stories to watch on this special day with Story Box here.

Just have your library card ready.
Christmas poster for story box
Story BOx

You can download the Story Box app or visit Story Box form the link on our eResources page.

Christmas with Beamafilm

Get the family together and enjoy some Christmas cheers with Beamafilm.

Browse their Christmas selection here or explore the collection to keep you and the kids entertained.

Poster for the movice Santa's Castle Poster for the movie Operation Christmas List Poster for the movice My Dad's Christmas DAte

If Christmas themed movies doesn’t take your fancy, have a look at the titles available exclusively at Beamafilm.

Poster for the movie Book Week Poster for the movie Crushed Delfin movie poster

The library might be closed, but that doesn’t stop you from enjoying an array of eResources free with your library card. From movies, to books, to magazines and games. Make the most of your library membership this summer period.  Visit our Library eResources page

Banner for Beamafilm streaming service free with your library card

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Contact the Libraries

Margaret River Library

Fearn Avenue, Margaret River WA 6285
Phone: (08) 9780 5600
Email: amrlibrary@amrshire.wa.gov.au