We are pleased to announce the extension of the Margaret River Library open hours.

Starting Monday 17 August, the library will be open at these times:

Mondays & Wednesdays

10am – 5.30pm

Wednesdays 10am – 12pm only open to over-60s.

On Wednesdays from 12pm – 5.30pm all are welcome

Tuesdays & Thursdays

10am – 8pm

Fridays & Saturdays

10am – 3pm

Please let your friends and family know!

The Augusta and Margaret River Libraries will be closing early on Thursday 6 August for Staff Development.

Augusta Library: Closing at 12pm. 

Margaret River Library: Closing at 12.30pm

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Your online library resources (including movies, e-books and e-audiobooks) are available 24/7. Click here to find out more.

We are very excited to let our community know that the Augusta Library will be opening again from Tuesday 4 August!

These are the new Augusta open times:

Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday:

10am – 12pm / 1pm – 4pm

(Closed Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday)

Click & Collect will continue to be available for those who prefer to not enter the library. Please visit the library during open hours and come to the back door if you are picking up a Click & Collect item.

We look forward to welcoming you back!

We’d like to tell you about some important changes happening at the libraries. Please share this information with all your family and friends.

Quarantine and sanitation at the libraries

We are no longer required to quarantine items on return. This means that your Holds will be ready sooner! It’s also especially good news for Augusta patrons – stay tuned because we hope to have exciting news for you soon…

For those who are feeling extra-cautious and want to continue quarantining library items yourself, here are some DIY tips:

• Bring a bag to hold your library items
• Avoid touching your face while browsing
• Pack all items into the bag after checking them out
• Before leaving the library, wash your hands with soap and water and follow up with a pump of sanitiser
• After bringing your library bag home, put it aside and leave it untouched for a couple of days (and wash your hands)

• Feel free to wear gloves and a mask any time you visit the library
• Our Click & Collect service is still available for anybody who is quarantining, feeling at-risk, or otherwise unable to browse the library. In these cases, you can send a friend to collect if necessary.

Patrons are not required to sanitise their hands on entry, however we do provide sanitiser for those who wish to sanitise as they arrive or leave (or both!)

Notifications

From Tuesday 28 July, if you have a Hold ready to collect, you’ll receive an automatically-generated email and/or SMS notice, rather than a phone call. Please ensure that we have your correct contact details in our system so that you don’t miss out on these important notifications!

You should already be receiving Reminder notifications via email and/or SMS now – please check that we have your correct contact details if you have items due and did not receive a Reminder notice.

Click & Collect service

We continue to provide the Click & Collect service during open hours at Margaret River (and during specified times at Augusta) for those who need to use this service. If you’re able to access the catalogue to place your Hold request, please do so. It’s really easy –  click here for instructions! 

If you’re unable to access the catalogue to request your items, please call us to find out alternative methods: 9780 5600

Feedback from you!

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank our wonderful community for your support, patience and compassion over the past several months. Your regular kind messages helped to keep staff morale high during stressful times. Here is a sample of some of the lovely comments we received, so you can share the smiles:

• You guys are doing a fabulous job during these different times
• Thank you so much for all your work!!
• I’m stoked to be a member of the library! You were super helpful.
• Thank you all for doing an amazing job, we greatly appreciate it.
• Much appreciate the great service you are providing in these trying times.
• Thank you all for your work in finding a way for us to collect books. Greatly appreciated
• I’m so delighted that you’re doing this collect service! Its very kind of you and much appreciated… Very best wishes to you all – Morale Boosters!
• Firstly, thank you to all the wonderful staff for creating the ‘click and collect’ style of library for us all in the community! I’m so grateful! And so excited to pick up new books in the near future!
• Thank you for making this service still available for us all!
• Thank you so much for opening this essential service, my parents have been self isolating for a month and a world without books for my mother is horrifying. I have loaned her some of mine but we have different tastes so she was so relieved to know she could get library books again.
• I know you’ve been told before but am adding my heartfelt thanks for your service. ‘Service’ does not adequately describe the wonderful humanness you bring to us all in terms of lifelong learning, entertainment, enlightenment and sheer joy that reading gifts us. During these times you are also the connection that diminishes mental distress and loneliness. Please know you are all loved for your ‘service’ to us.
• I have been isolating, and not seeing many faces, so to be greeted warmly and to feel genuinely cared about and looked after by the library staff was a real lift to my spirits.

Migration Council Australia (MCA) has developed a Government-sponsored multilingual app for Australia’s culturally and linguistically diverse communities, to help everyone to stay informed about the impact of Covid-19 and the available support.

The MyAusCovid-19 app allows users to:

• Browse articles about Covid-19
• Search for points of interest about Covid-19
• View short animations with helpful information about specific topics
• Find useful tips and contacts to support the community during Covid-19

The following languages are already available in the app: English, Vietnamese, Japanese, French, Cantonese, Korean, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin, Punjabi & Greek.

The following languages are being progressively added to the app: Arabic, Indonesian, Persian, Tagalog, Turkish, Burmese, Karen, Russian, Tamil, Urdu, Dari, Khmer, Somali & Thai.

The MyAusCovid-19 app is available from Google Play and the App Store.

We are now in our 3rd week since the Margaret River Library re-opened its doors to the public. How time flies!

As State and Federal government directions change, so do we… From this week we were allowed to increase our maximum onsite numbers from 20 to 100 people, and the place is starting to hum again 😊

Some things are going back to ‘normal’ while some things have become the ‘new normal’ – and some things are sort of in-between and likely to change over time!

Here is an update on our current procedures:

• Click & Collect is still available for patrons who prefer this method of delivery. Come to the back door and ring the bell – staff will bring your items to you.
• We are also inviting our community to visit again via the front entry and say ‘hello!’ when returning or picking up items.
• Items on Hold can be collected from within the library – just like you used to be able to do. If your item has a red bookmark, that means you need to check it out to yourself at the SmartServe (we’ll show you how if you’re feeling a bit rusty!)
• Everybody who enters the building is required to provide contact details so it is really helpful if you have your library card with you.
• All are reminded to sanitise their hands on entry and maintain social distancing (1.5m) – and please stay home if you are feeling at all unwell.
• We offered a 3 month loan period during the closure, however since we’ve re-opened, items are currently given a 5 week loan period. If you have items that were given a 3 month loan period and you’ve finished with them, please return them soon because others may be waiting for them. Items that are more than 30 days overdue incur an admin fee, so if you are having difficulty getting in, please call us! 9780 5600
• We are continuing to offer an ‘over-60s only’ session every Wednesday morning at the Margaret River Library from 10am to 12pm (but everybody is welcome after 12pm!)
• Click & Collect is available from Augusta Library even though their doors are not yet open, and wifi is available from outside the library. Please click here for the latest information about opening times.

Finally, we want to say a big THANK YOU to our community for your continuing patience, compassion and concern for each other’s welfare. We are indeed ‘all in this together’ and we are grateful to have your support as we continue to deliver our library service. Stay safe and sane!

Tumblebook Library is an easy-to-use e-resource to teach and entertain children.

It includes e-books, read along, graphic novels and more.

Have your library card handy and click here to start the fun. There is also an app available for use with mobile devices.

…or click here to browse the full range of library e-resources for our Junior community.

You may already be aware that the Margaret River Library is offering an ‘over-60s only’ session on Wednesdays from 10am to 12 noon.

Please let all your friends and family know!

If you are under 60, please select a time outside of this session for your visit. Click here to find out more about opening times.