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546 8100 [email protected] Private Bag 41, Nelson 7042 facebook.com/nelsonpubliclibraries twitter.com/nelsonlibraries nelsonpubliclibraries.co.nz … at your library Friends of the Nelson Library News The Friends are delighted to start their 2015 Sunday afternoon speaker series with Rick Gekoski on 15 March. Rick is a UK-based dealer of rare books and manuscripts, writer and broadcaster. His books include: ‘Outside of a dog’; ‘Lost, stolen or shredded: stories of missing works of art and literature’; ‘Tolkien’s gown’. His talk is entitled ‘A bit of this and a bit of that: stories, anecdotes, reminiscences, questions and conversations’ and starts at 2pm on Sunday 15 th , at Elma Turner Library. $2 entry charge. Don’t be late – he will be a very popular speaker. The next Book Sale is on Saturday morning, 7 March 10am to 12.30pm and will feature books on transport, including ‘planes, trains, cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats, ships, plus much more. For information about the Friends see http://nel.so/n/30 O dear! O dear! Don’t be too late! What is “a hopper of ditches, a cutter of corn, a little brown cow without any horns”? As we near Easter towards the end of March we are going to celebrate all things Rabbit at our first Readers’ Evening of the year. At Elma Turner Library, 6.15pm on Thursday 26 March, we will be learning about Rabbit Island from Tasman District Council, learning about the critters themselves from the staff of Natureland and we will be reading rabbit folktales and carrying out other bunny-related activities. The evening will be suitable for all ages, and there will be separate children’s activities for part of it. We will have a rabbit–related reading list – how many rabbit-related books can you think of? How many famous literary rabbits? Did you know a female rabbit is a doe and a male a buck – and that young rabbits are called kittens?! Why not hop along on the 26 th and learn more rabbitty things? Appropriate light refreshments will be served. For more Hot Picks.- Fiction, Non Fiction, eBooks, Young Adults – subscribe to our online monthly mailouts at: nel.so/n/hotpicks Elma Turner Library The forgotten girls/ Sara Blaedel The body of an unidentified woman has been discovered in a local forest - and Commander Louise Rick finds the investigation takes her close to her childhood home – and to her own past. Shark skin suite/ Tim Dorsey The 18 th Serge Storms book, this time the madcap Storms has found a new calling as a legal eagle, and he's going to make a killing as a crusading attorney -- and star as a dashing lawyer on the big screen. Wolf Winter/ Cecilia Ekbāck It is 1717 and Maija and her family arrive in Swedish Lapland from Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of their past - but soon Maija discovers the true cost of survival and what it will take to make it through to spring. The offering/ Grace McCleen From the author of The Land of Decoration comes another novel told from the point of view of a narrator whose childhood has been shaped by fundamentalist evangelical beliefs. Madeline can’t recall the events of her fourteenth birthday, and Dr Lucas, a psychiatrist who has been experimenting with a radical hypnotherapy, believes he can unlock Madeline's memory. Would you like to have your say about Nelson’s library services? Through March and April, Nelson Public Libraries will embark on a project to survey customers to make sure that the libraries and library staff meet the needs of our community. We want to know if we’re providing you with the right services, at the right times, in the right places and to the right standards. Is there anything you want us to provide that we don’t currently? Are the staff available to you when you need them? Do we have the right skills? What would you change about the library if you could? “We’ve designed the survey to be quick and straightforward to complete, however, there is also room for plenty of comment, if that’s what customers want to provide,” said the libraries’ Team Leader Service Delivery, Sarah Fry. It’s hoped as many people as possible will complete the survey online via a link on the libraries’ website. There will also be paper copies of the survey available at the Elma Turner, Stoke and Nightingale libraries, and at Founders Heritage Park. The survey closes on 30 April. “It’s our community’s opportunity to be heard about what’s important in a library service, and the libraries’ opportunity to plan for the community’s future.” Rick Gekoski
