Nutrition Australia's recommended reading for parents

Leanne Elliston, a practising dietician from Nutrition Australia, yesterday presented parents with practical advice on nutrition for babies, infants and toddlers.The session was well attended and parents had the opportunity to ask questions and clarify any of their concerns.

Nutrition Australia has compiled a recommended reading list which was referred to at the event. You can access the list by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom of the page, and downloading the word document. Topics covered include:

• Breastfeeding and introducing solids
• Positive mealtimes and fussy eating 

Also included are the following general child nutrition websites:

• Kids Health Info www.rch.org.au/kidsinfo/factsheets
• Good for Kids Good for Life http://www.goodforkids.nsw.gov.au/
• Healthy Kids http://www.healthykids.nsw.gov.au/
• Parenting and Child Health South Australia http://www.cyh.com.au/
• Meerilinga Lunch Box World www.meerilinga.org.au/Nutrition/LunchBoxWorld.aspx
• Fresh for Kids http://www.freshforkids.com.au/

St Patrick's Day Spotlight: Derek Landy

Derek Landy is the author of a series of books about a stylish skeleton detective. Set in and around Dublin, the books are dizzy with action, mystery and magic. The series so far:

• Skulduggery Pleasant
• Playing with Fire
• The Faceless Ones
• NEW! Dark Days

Here are some things you may not know about Landy:

• He wrote a screenplay for a zombie movie
• He has a black belt in Kenpo Karate
• He likes to refer to himself in third person

Read this series and visit the Skulduggery Pleasant website

Celebrating all things Irish

In celebration of St Patrick's Day, we encourage you to explore the Irish literary world. Here are a few places you might like to start:

• Irish Writers' Centre
• Poetry Ireland (Eigse Eireann)
• Irish Culture Guide
• Ireland Literature Guide

You can also visit the websites of these writers:

• Cathal O Sandair
• Cecilia Ahern
• Colm Toibin
• James Joyce Centre
• John Boyne
• Maeve Binchy
• Marian Keyes
• Monica McInerney

And click here to search the library catalogue for items about Ireland.

Heritage Festival at the library

To celebrate the 2010 Canberra and Region Heritage Festival, we are pleased to host three sessions at the ACT Heritage Library:

Deciphering Canberra's Street and Place Names

Sunday 11 April at 2 pm

Tuesday 13 April at 11 am

Peter Phillips, a Place Names Officer with the ACT Planning and Land Authority, will share how the process of naming our suburbs, streets and public places in the national capital has evolved. This one-hour presentation includes a pictorial overview of Canberra’s place names with quiz questions and the opportunity to ask how some of our local names were assigned.

Discovering Your House History

Tuesday 20 April at 11 am

Elizabeth Estbergs, from Archives ACT, will use a case study of a house in Griffith (ACT) to demonstrate how parish maps and information about our suburbs can be used to research the history of a house. Come along and learn how you might be able to apply this research to the history of your own house.

Bookings for all sessions can be made online or by phoning 6205 9000.

Treasure Trove

Have you heard of Trove?

Designed as "a single point of access to the resources of the deep web" Trove enables your search to turn up everything from books, manuscripts and newspapers, to maps, pictures, music, and lots more.

A new discovery experience focused on Australia and Australians. It supplements what search engines provide with reliable information from Australia's memory institutions.

If you are researching in the fields of the social sciences, literature, local or family history, or need inspiration for your school assignment, then this is the tool for you.

Click here to explore Trove.

Sibling love in Jane Austen's fiction revisited

To coincide with the Jane Austen Festival, we are pleased to host a visit from Glenda Hudson, Professor of English at California State University, where she specialises in Victorian literature and the Bristish novel.

Monday 21 April 2010
6.00 pm - 7.00 pm
Kippax Library
Book online or phone 6205 9000

The subject of sibling relationships, both functional and dysfunctional, in Jane Austen's fiction has received renewed attention in numerous recent studies. Glenda Hudson will offer a fresh perspective on this subject and elaborate on arguments presented in several previous studies, including Sibling Love and Incest in Jane Austen’s Fiction, and in light of her recent work on the novels of other women writers of Austen’s period.

About the presenter:

Glenda Hudson was born in Canterbury, England. She received her B.A. from the University of Leeds and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.
Glenda is the author of Sibling Love and Incest in Jane Austen's Fiction and the co-author of A Contemporary Guide to Literary Terms. Her articles and reviews of eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century fiction have appeared in Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism, Children's Literature in Education, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, The Newsletter of the Jane Austen Society of North America, Persuasions, Pacific Coast Philology, and St udies in the Novel.


Please note that places for this event are limited due to available space.

Canberra edges closer to 100

We're now in the middle of the Canberra Festival, and that means it's only three years until Canberra celebrates its centenary!

The inaugural Canberra Gold Exhibition is on display at the Canberra Museum and Gallery until 20 June 2010.

[It] showcases the stories of six Canberra Gold recipients and one group, the Canberra Amateur Swimming Club, which was formed in 1930.

The Canberra Gold Awards are presented annually by the Chief Minister as part of Canberra's birthday celebrations in March to people or groups who have contributed to the life of our city for 50 years or more.

The exhibition is the result of a partnership between the Canberra Museum and Gallery, Tuggeranong Community Arts and the ACT Government's Centenary of Canberra unit. Members of the Tuggeranong Community Arts recorded the stories of the Canberra Gold recipients.

How much do you know about Canberra 100? Visit the official Canberra 100 website to discover more about planning for the Centenary, and to read key documents like the Task Force Report and Interim Strategy and the Youth Survey Report.

You can also visit the ACT Heritage Library (located on the first floor of Woden Library) to learn more about Canberra's history.

Blog of the Titans #3: Fact and Myth

Click on these titles to explore Greek mythology according to...

Fact

• The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
• Greek Myths by Rob Shone (for younger readers)
• Travelling heroes: Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox
• The Dictionary of Classical Mythology by Pierre Grimal

Myth

• The Odyssey
• The Iliad
• The Argonautica

Living Library to celebrate Harmony Day

To celebrate Harmony Day, why not borrow a book from our second Living Library? The Living Library is just like a regular library, with one difference - the books are people. Think about your own prejudices or stereotypes, and find out what someone else's life is really like.


Saturday 20 March 2010
From 10.00 am
Kippax Library
Bookings are essential: click here to book online or phone 6205 9000

How does the Living Library work?

• Reserve a living book - click here to make a reservation (i.e. a booking)
• Spend 30-45 minutes talking with the living book
• Return the living book to the library

There will be eight living books available on this day:

• Living in Timbuktu
• Living with Refugees
• Reflections from the Middle East
• Journey from Sri Lanka
• US Migrant
• Growing up Asian in the 1970s
• Making Poverty History
• Growing up in Sydney, Living in Canberra, Working in South East Asia 

Search the library on your mobile phone

It is now much easier to search, request and renew from your mobile phone, with a mobile version of the library catalogue available at: http://tinyurl.com/actlib.