checking the blog

Long standing friend of the library John Lewis dropped by today to check out thge blogging thing.

Night Market Starts

Probably the latest picture to feature on this blog! Cars parked outside the library at about 11.15 pm. NOT using the library. This blogger was a bit late for the party but if you are interested have a look at www.athlonenightmarket.blogspot.com.

blogging from my cell!

children, do not try this unless you have a nice little hsdpa htc (like emma!). but this is a test bed....... so blogging using my sad little v360 is ok. the likelyhood of posting a pic is so low from this phone that i may as well tell u a story..... are you sitting comfortably? once upon a time there was a librarian......

Alicedale Pre-School Colouring

The young ones from Alicedale Pre-School did some colouring in today. They were very proud of their work! No colouring in was done at 3:37 am....... The camera time stamp is living in another universe!

Card Making

Card making in the library this morning! They gave us all a big smile before starting.

Safeline

A Visit from Linda and the team from Safeline concluded the 16 Days of Activism Month. Here they are busy with the kids. The young man to the left in the top picture is Anthony, an exchange student from America.

Visit from Assets

Nobody escapes this blog! We were visited by Brandon from H/O Lis who spent the day scanning in barcoded furniture, etc....

Repairs On the Way

The good men from maintenance are working away on our little building to make it a better place for all. Our unstable shelf supports are being replaced with wood blocks as seen below.


And here are the fixit men themselves.
L to R Granville Herman, Mikhtar Begg and H.A. Bowman!

Bad news

Dear Friends. This blog can not simply be about cheery, wistful things. We once had gutters...........

And a "Security" gate....... but the reapers, hunter gatherers, call them what you may, have been busy in Athlone. May the fleas of a thousand camels forever infest their armpits.

From remote

Well, this is not quite an Athlone Library Pic post. This was done from Bridgetown Library, picture taken on a cell with a broken lens, via a Smartcape terminal, using a usb port allegedly not yet activated (wrong!). This now proves conclusively that anybody with a decent camera phone, a Smartcape new terminal, and the will...... can blog their library!!! Felicia gives us a Smile!!

Festive Card Making

With Eid and Christmas (and New Year!) coming soon, we are holding daily card making sessions in our library. What a thoughtful (free!!!) gift a card makes.
Here we see the tykes at work with Alison helping out.

Reading Programme

Here is our "Reading Tree" !!!



The tree has hanging from it a number of reading cards. As readers sign up for the programme, they get a card hung on the tree. Like this.......



Winners will be drawn from these cards at the end of the programme.
And here are some of the readers, Stephanie, Tamryn, Alexandra and Kaylin

Cindy and friend

Cindy did her volunteer reading but brought along her boyfriend to help!

Aids Display

Aids Day 1 December and here is our display for this day.

another 16 days display

Thanks to Candice from the new GCIS office in Athlone for more pamphlets etc for this display.

this blogger

Colleagues have complained that this blogger is not featured anywhere on this blog. So Saffiyah this is for you!

16 Days of Activism

16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women And Children rolls out tommorow. We mounted this display. Thanks to Derrick Schoeder and Bomkazi from Provincial Government for the pamphlets and posters.

World Aids Day

World Aids Day coming up soon so Children's did a display.

Festive Reading Programme

OK, Its not all fun and no work. The decorations go with a Reading programme as displayed here....

Christmas Time

A Wave of Christmas Joy is slowly flowing over our library. Here is Armien (careful) trimming the tree in children's. The Little boxes of gifts under the tree contain nothing, but are slowly being stolen!

Festive Programme

Safiyyah and Allison working on displays for the Children's Festive Book Programme.

passing of an Icon

Yesterday saw the sad passing of one of South Africa and the World's greatest musical Icons. Miriam Makeba passed in Italy away age 76. Rest in Peace Mama Africa. This is our small tribute.

It's alive!!!!

We have never been so happy to see this green screen......... Our longest single offline stretch ended this afternoon when Riann finally found a working box. But for how long..........

Night Market

Athlone Library hosted a planning meeting for the Christmas night market which will take place in the area around the library. From the left Charmaine Lees(ANC), Charlotte Tabischer(DA), on the far right Vincent Baatjies, chair of the LOC and to his right Murial Sousa. Last years' market was good but this year will include live music ("sangkore")!

Safety Meeting

Athlone hosted our quarterly Safety Com. Meeting today. A very fruitful meeting in which we were given good guidelines and encouragement from our new district librarian Flippie Van Der Walt.

Smartcape

Noma helping out our users at the always busy Smartcape Terminals.

wEDNESDAY sTORY tIME

Cindy Gibbons our volunteer story reader reads to children.

Flippie Van Der Walt

Athlone Library received it's first visit from our new District Librarian Flippie Van Der Walt. WELCOME FLIPPIE!

Mary Harding

Armien reading stories to the Mary Harding group.

Dead Bookplus

Our trusty Bookplus computer system died on us this week. Not bad for 15 years of uninterrupted service. After a cleaning the controller box and canabalizing many bits and pieces from other dead boxes, our computer wizz Riaan Langeveldt managed to create a functioning controller. After a week offline we wait for Telkom.......

Crafters end of year.

Yesterday saw the last crafters meeting of the year. These pictures show the ladies at work as well as some of the work done this year.

EID

This display mounted by Children's in Celebration of the upcoming Eid-Ul-Adha.

Visit from Palestine!

Khursheed Allie visited us today with a group of visiting Palestinian students.

World Diabetes Display

Thanks to Margot from Diabetes SA for the great material used for this display.

Amy from Christel House

Amongst the learners from Christel House, here is Amy, a scholarship student. Teacher Eulinda and the staff of the school are very proud of her!

Christel House visit

The young learners from Christel House paid us a visit this morning! This blogger is back from leave. The time stamp looks as though it has been on leave as well :-)

Adults Tooooo

Just another busy day folks, "What is a Cam Clamp/Who's in the new cabinet/Do you have a Phil Collins Biography/What is raw data...........etc. :-)

Saturday Storytime

Saturday is always a" woooosh !!!!!" day at libraries, Athlone is no exception! Here are some of the future leaders of our Great Nation enjoying books with their parents.

Crafters Results

Yup, as promised. They don't only look good in pictures, they also do good work as well. Beautiful paintwork by our craft group!