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.