Friday May 11, 2012
Zoom!
So far this year the Thursday Kids have been celebrating the National Year of Reading in loads of different ways.
Wednesday May 9, 2012
Seuss-Mania @ Mosman Library!!!
Mosman Library was struck down by a serious case of Seuss-Mania during the April school holidays which saw kids from far and wide suffering mild to severe symptoms including laughing out loud, periods of creativity, imaginative outbursts and prolonged episodes of reading! What could possibly have brought on this terrible affliction you ask? Well let’s just say The National Year of Reading 2012 just may have had something to do with it.
Thursday April 26, 2012
Panic: David Marr at Mosman Library
Cronulla. Henson. Hanson. Wik. Haneef. The boats… Award-winning journalist and writer David Marr brings you ‘dispatches from the republic of panic.’
Monday March 26, 2012
Mosman Faces is back...
You may remember in May last year our newest website in Local Studies – Mosman Faces – was launched.
In the first series of Mosman Faces ten people told their stories, stories that have shaped the Mosman community.
These stories were presented as filmed interviews on the web and complemented by images from the Local Studies collection.
We aim to build on these interviews and images, not only through your responses, but also through further interviews and this is what we did last Tuesday.
Once again we used the film making skills of Damon from Filmview, Donna Braye, the Local Studies Librarian for images and prompting and me to ask the curly questions to Kenneth Dryland and Diane Wachman.
For those of you who don’t know these names, Kenneth Dryland, besides being the late Dame Joan Sutherland’s hairdresser for over 50 years and Mosman’s 1982 Citizen of the Year, was the director of the inaugural Festival of Mosman in 1981 and continued to direct this major event until 1997.
Diane Wachman, born and bred in Mosman, was also an active and integral member of the Festival of Mosman committee until 1997 and then her skills were snapped up by the newly formed Mosman Art Gallery.
Kenneth Dryland believes Mosman was the first municipality in a major Australian city to hold such an event, it brought the Mosman community together and put Mosman on the map for arts and entertainment.
Kenneth and Diane relived the activities both before and during the seven festivals they worked on together, the Grand Parade, the Opera Concerts, the Twilight Venetian festival and more…
Stay tuned for these lively additions to Mosman Faces but we need YOUR help too.
To add to the entertainment of the ‘Faces’ we need your home movies from this festival era of 1981-1996 and the footage can be in any format, DVD, VHS, USB and film reel.
If you can help please contact Mary Lou Byrne on 9978 4097 or m.byrne@mosman.nsw.gov.au
Photos
Wednesday March 7, 2012
Library News & Views - Autumn 2012
Tuesday March 6, 2012
Two exciting local history donations
Many important materials held in the Local Studies collection have been donated. The first major donation of photographs and maps, collected by Dalton Jack Carroll, were given to the Library in the 1950s.
Since then we continue to receive photographs, ephemera, personal papers, plans, community archives and so much more. However, two recent donations have caused some excitement.
Mosman had a number of stone quarries from the mid-19th century including those belonging to Richard Hayes Hartnett at Mosman Bay, Ed Ritchie’s on Wyong Road, A J. McDougall’s Clifton Gardens Quarry and others on Avenue Road and at The Spit. A local kindly donated some quarryman’s tools she had purchased at garage sale in the 1970s. They came from descendants of the workman, who owned these tools, and who had worked as a stonemason at Hartnett’s Quarries. These are on view in the library.
Mosman Library holds an extensive, but incomplete, set of the Mosman Daily dating from 1917. The library recently received a donation of a bound volume of The (Mosman) Daily from January to June 1923. This volume has now been microfilmed as a means of preserving the original paper and allowing people to read the microfilmed copy.
Friday February 24, 2012
What all these things do
We had a great workshop in the library last night with Ed Mitchell. Thank you for coming along and bringing your questions.
Ed has kindly forwarded some links relevant to our discussion:
- Final report of the Transition Network web project (to date)
- Handy one page of recommendations for local groups about using the web. This includes some short descriptions of the various options, and separates the various options out by stage – this might be handy for Chris who was after something explaining what the various things are.
- Also of interest is Nick Wilding’s report into community resilience which is well worth a read. Nick is a great facilitator and activist employed by
The Carnegie Trust in the UK.
Remember that if you have questions about specific web tools or strategies, get in touch and we ‘ll look at some practical hands-on sessions.
Monday February 20, 2012
Teens & social networks: Mylee Joseph at Mosman Library
Mylee Joseph gave a great talk last week on social media for parents. Thank you, Mylee, for coming to speak with us, and for sharing what you know. Following are links to the materials referenced in this talk.
