Alison Norris-Baber
Our inimitable style queen, Alison also happens to lead our Homelink service. If you find yourself unable to visit the library because of illness or injury, just sign up to Homelink and Alison will deliver books and magazines to your door. More than that, you can trust her to choose the right read for you.
Sylvia Arnold
Sylvia is one of our two Assistant Librarians. She is responsible for liaising with the region’s schools and early childhood centres – you’re never too young to join and use a library! A keen and talented crafter, Sylvia enjoys using her skills to develop fun holiday programmes and other children-focused services.
Quintin Pope
Our favourite geek, Quintin can often be found helping customers with their tech problems (usually a misbehaving app!) as well as hooking people up with Skinny Jump’s subsidised broadband service. He also manages our library website, ensuring the information is up to date. Those with Lego-mad children can thank Quintin for setting up the libraries’ weekly brick club sessions – and for creating brilliant brick-challenge videos (you can view them on our Facebook page).
Book Clubs
Anyone who’s part of a book club knows reading a book is only half the fun; talking about it with a group of interested and interesting people takes your reading pleasure to another level. And if you’re new to the region, what better way to connect and make new friends?
Wairarapa Library Service runs an evening book club on the first Wednesday of each month 7 – 8 p.m. It’s an online session that you can participate from the comfort of your home. You can pick up a library copy of the book chosen for discussion at any WLS library. Go to wls.org.nz/eveningbookclub to register your interest and receive the newsletter along with details on how to sign in for the online meetings.
Alternatively, join us at our morning book club held on the last Wednesday every month 10 – 11.30 a.m. Rather than an assigned book, everyone shares what they’ve been reading and recommends titles that they’ve enjoyed. Have a chat, a laugh, and a cuppa with our friendly group. If this sounds like you, contact Pat Snellgrove to register your interest pat.snellgrove@xtra.co.nz
All are welcome and we look forward to seeing you at one – or both! – book clubs.
Enhancements to Libby
Libby users will be pleased to learn about a couple of new features that enable them to find content, even if it’s not yet in our digital collection. The Deep Search feature connects users to all the content they’re interested in. If a search for a title, author, or series returns no results, Libby will automatically display other relevant titles that are available in the OverDrive Marketplace catalogue. If a title is not currently offered in our collection, you can add a Notify Me tag and Libby will let you know if the item becomes available.
