Lake Macquarie Plans and Reports - On Display

The following are currently on display at Lake Macquarie Libraries.
[Updated 11/11/2010]

Aging population plan, 2008-2017 : Draft
Alcohol free zones : proposal and maps of the zones throughout the Lake Macquarie City Council Local Government Area
Belmont Wetlands State Park : draft Plan of Management (PoM)
Bipolar disorder fact sheets
Blacksmiths Beach
Charlestown transportation study for Lake Macquarie City Council : implementation report
Code of meeting practice
Colongra Pipeline REF addendum project : review of environmental factors (addendum) by Parsons Brinckerhoff Australia ; for Delta Electricity.
Conservation management plan : Wallarah & Moonee Collieries Catherine Hill Bay, NSW /
Cultural plan 2007-2013
Dealing with depression : a commonsense guide to mood disorders
Depression fact sheets
Development Control Plan No. 1 : [draft] revision 4
Development Control Plan No. 1 [draft] : principles of development [revision 3]
Draft amendment to Development Control Plan No. 1 : Belmont North Nissen Hut Heritage Conservation Area - Area Plan and Development Guidelines
Draft catchment action plan
Draft cemetery strategy
Draft Community Crime Prevention Plan : 2009-2011
Draft Glendale Regional Centre Master Plan
Draft Lake Macquarie Aboriginal Heritage Management Strategy : exhibition documants
Draft Lake Macquarie City Council and Family Services Strategy 2009-2014 : making Lake Macquarie a great place for children
Draft Lake Macquarie Community Plan 2008-2018 : aspirations of the people of Lake Macquarie
Draft Lake Macquarie environmental action plan : January 2004 /
Draft Managing Land Contamination Policy
Draft plan of management : leased/licensed area of Community land No. 44/2005
Draft proposed amendments to Wallarah Peninsula : design essentials
Draft sports facilities strategy 2009-2014
Exhibition of low-cost housing strategy : draft action plan
Glenrock State Recreation Area : draft plan of management
Guide to rural residential living in the Hunter, Central and Lower North Coast of NSW
I had a black dog : his name was depression
Lake Macquarie City Council Draft Social Plan 2009-2014 : Version 2 Lake Macquarie City Council.
Lake Macquarie City Council pool service delivery model : final draft report
Lake Macquarie Local Environmental Plan 2004 : draft Amendment No. 12 [and] : draft Amendment No. 13
Lake Macquarie local environmental plan 2004 : draft amendment no. 40 (Trinity Point, Bardens Bay
Lake Macquarie Local Environmental Plan 2004 : draft amendment no. 45
LMCC suburb review : stage 1
Local environment study for land north of Teralba
Local Environmental Plan : draft Amendment No. 24
Mawsons lookout : plan of management : draft
Munmorah State Conservation Area and Bird Island Nature Reserve : propsed amendments to the plan of management
Proposed Biodiversity Planning Principles for Local Environmental Plan Rezoning Proposals
Speers Point Park : draft masterplan report
Speers Point Park : masterplan report
Speers Point Park plan of management
Tracking the black dog : hairy tales and historical legwork from the Black Dog Institute's writing competition
Trinity Point environmental assessment
Trinity Point marina and mixed use resort
Urban design study : Friths' site and surrounding council lands HBO + EMTB Urban & Landscape Design [commissioned by] Lake Macquarie City Council
Voluntary Planning Agreement for land at North Cooranbong : draft
Voluntary Planning Agreement for North Cooranbong : draft

A new image of Shakespeare



"We all know what William Shakespeare looked like: similar to a hippie uncle — balding, moustached, longish hair in back. How do we know? Mostly from an engraving by Martin Droeshout that appeared with the First Folio, the collection of Shakespeare's work that was published in 1623, seven years after his death. That engraving is reproduced with almost every edition of Shakespeare that offers a picture of him.

But engravings are typically copied from another source, like a drawing or painting. Shakespeareans have been tantalized for generations by the possibility that a genuine life portrait of the man survives somewhere.

Now Stanley Wells, professor emeritus of Shakespeare Studies at Birmingham University and one of the world's most distinguished Shakespeare scholars, says he has identified one. Wells is convinced that an oil painting on wood panel that has rested for centuries in the collection of an old Irish family was painted from life around 1610, when Shakespeare was 46.

If that's so, it would be the only true likeness we have of the greatest writer of the English language."

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1883770,00.html?imw=Y

Shakespeare books on display
O Brave new world : two centuries of Shakespeare on the Australian stage
Players : the mysterious identity of William Shakespeare
The Shakespeare handbook
Shakespeare : his life, work and era
Shakespeare in the movies : from the silent era to Shakespeare in love
Shakespeare : the biography
Shakespeare's professional career
A theater of envy : William Shakespeare
A theatergoer's guide to Shakespeare's characters
Ungentle Shakespeare : scenes from his life
Will in the world : how Shakespeare became Shakespeare

Easter Storytime - April 7


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New Trends and Technology in 2009

• Cloud Computing – people store more data and rely more and more on the cloud
• Changing role of IT – a growing emph0asis on communication, people skills and humanism
• Value of the Commons – a community - a gathering place - a place to share
• Micro-Interaction – everyday exchanges we have with a product, brand and service – the workstream
• The Tribe – virtual communities
• Encourage the heart – an emphasis on caring and empathy
• Portable Devices – how we live, work and learn. Education can take place virtually anywhere
• Personalization – People are personalizing their information experiences and spaces.
• Localization – location-aware iPhones and applications make it easy to follow someone’s movements.
• Digital lifestyle – Music, movies, books, articles, podcasts, TV shows, are all available online.
• Open Thinking – From Open Source Software to open governance

Coffee, Books and Chat - March 31 at 10:30

Google Tools


Google is the most popular site for searching the Internet. It has become very successful by incorporating online advertising which is tailored to individual viewers interests. This success has enabled it to expand into many other areas, with the aim to “organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

Here are some Google tools of interest:
• Blogger – create your own blog of articles to which others can subscribe
• Books – search the content of millions of books
• Bookmarks – create a list of your favourite web sites
• Docs – create and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations
• Earth – zoom in to the worlds resources, overlaid with additional information and views
• Gmail – a free email service with advanced features
• iGoogle – your tailored starting page with shortcuts to your regular sites and information
• Maps – view street and satellite maps, as well as directions and business information
• News – a constant stream of breaking news and views
• Reader – subscribe to regular updates from blogs and websites

Books and Babies - Wednesdays at 10:30

Facebook - Connecting to friends



According to the owners of Facebook, its mission "is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.”

The first step is to create a personal profile – who you are, where you live and work, what your interests are. Secondly, you make links to known friends (often drawing on your email contacts list). Thirdly you can attempt to link to other Facebook members with similar profiles.

Facebook has a number of features with which users may interact. They include the Wall, a space on every user's profile page that allows friends to post messages for the user to see, Pokes, which allows users to send a virtual "poke" to each other (a notification that tells a user that they have been poked), Photos, where users can upload albums and photos, and Status, which allows users to inform their friends of their whereabouts and actions.

There is a growing range of third-party add-on services and features, or Widgets, which enhance the attractiveness of the service. These can be games, information sources, or communication tools.

Alternatives to Facebook include MySpace and Google’s Orkut.

Social Networks - Blogs and tagging

The fastest growing trend on the Internet is towards sites which encourage interaction and collaboration, called social networks. It features a greater degree of participation and user contribution than earlier Internet models.

It moves beyond email to Chat, Internet Messaging, publication of public profiles of personal interests, ‘tagging’ or cataloguing content, commenting and responding to other’s contributions, and especially Blogging.

“A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.

The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of most early blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting)”
wikipedia.com





Blogging software, often run online, is easy to use, such as at Blogger, WordPress, Movable Type, or LiveJournal.

The active users of the Internet are no longer content to be merely the receivers of information. They want to participate and be a part of what is happening. It is a much more dynamic, and socially active process than it used to be. It has the potential to radically change traditional media, and corporate and political life as well.

Emerging and successful web sites are incorporating these collaborative and interactive elements, using the ‘wisdom of crowds’ to help identify the most popular content.

A good example of collaboration is Wikipedia, the user-generated online encyclopaedia
. “A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content, typically without the need for registration. It also allows for linking among any number of pages.

This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.”
Wikipedia.org

Amazon.com, for example, features user-reviews, and identifies similar items people have bought at the site. It highlights popular items and allows voting of particular items. It encourages users to create lists, for the benefit of other users (Listmania).

It even has a product Wiki to “tag products with what they are and with their most important facts, and for others to search, discover, filter, and compare products by those tags”.

Video on the web - viewing and sharing videos

1. FORMATS
.MPEG (compressed, open standard); .AVI (Audio Video Interleave, Microsoft standard); .WMV (compressed, proprietary Windows Media Video); .MOV (Apple’s QuickTime proprietary format); .SWF (playable in browsers, Shockwave)

2. PLAYERS AND SOFTWARE
Browsers; Windows Media Player software; Quicktime software.

3. MOBILE GADGETS
Personal Video recorders; iPod video players; Advanced phones such as iPhone; PDA (Personal Digital Assistants); MPEG players; Microsoft’s Zune.

4. SHARING MY VIDEO ONLINE (YouTUBE)

You can upload video files to public web sites such as YouTube.com for others to view, tag, comment and share. This is part of a trend that may see TV-type content available on computers and portable devices.

Audio on the web - Listening to and sharing music and more

1. FORMATS
.WAV (uncompressed, large files); .MP3 (compressed, open standard); .AAC (compressed, iPod proprietary format); .WMA (compressed, Windows Media Audio); .RA (Real Audio, proprietary streaming format). DVD-Video is a standard for storing video content on DVD media.

2. STREAMING AUDIO
Referred to as Podcasts or Streaming Audio, often in MP3 format. Can be played ‘live’ as a download, or stored and re-played. You can ‘subscribe’ to regular broadcasts using software such as Juice.

3. PLAYERS AND SOFTWARE
On a PC using Windows Media Player, Real Audio Player, Quicktime etc.

4. MOBILE GADGETS

iPods; MP3 players; MP3-enabled phones and portable storage devices; PDA (Personal Digital Assistants).

5. SHARING MY AUDIO ONLINE (MP3.COM)
You can upload audio to public sites such as mp3.com. You can create and upload podcasts (see www.podcast.net for a directory).

Images on the Web - Viewing and sharing your pictures

1. FORMATS
Image files can be: .BMP (uncompressed, large file size); .PSD (Photoshop, proprietary to one program); .TIFF (Tagged Image File Format, multiple images and metadata); .GIF (Graphics Interchange Format, compressed without loss); .JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group, compressed with possible loss); .PNG (Portable Network Graphics, open standard); .PDF (Portable Document Format, compressed images and text)

2. VIEWERS AND SOFTWARE
Browsers and email software will display images.

Image editors such as Photoshop, Paintshop Pro or free online programs such as Picnik or Picassa can alter images and convert formats.

3. MOBILE GADGETS
Mobile phones and Digital cameras can take, store and download image files. Email can be used to send them between devices.

5. SHARING PHOTOS ONLINE (FLICKR)

You can upload images to web sites for others to view, tag, comment and share at sites such as Flickr.

Communicating on the Web - From Email to Twitter

1. EMAIL
This is the original application killer; one that has been a staple of the Internet since the start. Internet Vendor email accounts have been supplanted in part by free web-based email from either Yahoo, Google or , less frequently Microsoft’s Hotmail (Live mail). Like many Internet applications, the trend has been towards more mobile email access, with iPhone type devices and small notebooks - NetBooks.

2. CHAT
“Chat is a bit like e-mail in real time. Users have conversations via the keyboard in "Chat rooms" with other users. Chat has been criticized for being addictive as well as concerns over unsuitable contact between children and adults. To join a chatroom you usually have to give your e-mail address and this can lead to spam.”
http://www.smallbizonline.co.uk/glossary_of_internet_terms.php

3. INTERNET MESSAGING
This is a form of chat, often using a client software such as ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Microsoft MSN Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger.

4. INTERNET TELEPHONES (VOIP)

Voice Over Internet Protocol programs enable phone-type communications across a broadband Internet connection. Skype is one such service. Although low cost per call, broadband access costs need to be considered. There may be additional hardware devices to purchase or rent. It can be via a computer or to a phone handset.

5. TWITTERING
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends who can receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS, or through applications such as TwitterMobile, Tweetie, Twinkle, Twitterrific, Feedalizr, Facebook, and Twidget.

Blast Off with a Techno Thriller


Here are some of our popular techno thriller titles:

Bond, Larry
__Angels of wrath 1996
__Dangerous ground 1996
__First team 2000
__First team: soul of the assassin 2000
__The enemy within 2000
__Fires of war 2001
Brown, Dan
__Digital fortress 2000
__Robert Langdon ; Vol. 1 Angels and demons 2000
__Robert Langdon ; Vol. 2 The Da Vinci code 2003
__Deception point 2008
Buff, Joe
__Crush depth 2003
__Seas of crisis 2003
__Straits of power 2003
__Thunder in the deep 2003
Clancy, Tom
__Jack Ryan Red rabbit 1994
__Jack Ryan The bear and the dragon. 1998
__Jack Ryan The cardinal of the Kremlin 1998
__Jack Ryan The hunt for Red October 1998
__Jack Ryan The sum of all fears 1998
__Jack Ryan Clear and present danger 2003
__Jack Ryan Debt of honour 2003
__Jack Ryan Executive orders 2003
__Jack Ryan The teeth of the tiger 2004
__Jack Ryan Patriot games 2005
__Jack Ryan Rainbow six 2005
__Net Force Tom Clancy's net force 1994
__Op-centre Vol. 1 Call to treason 2003
__Op-centre Vol. 2 mirror image 1996
__Op-centre Vol. 3 games of state 1996
__Op-centre Vol. 5 balance of power 1994
__Op-centre Vol. 6 state of siege 1997
__Power plays Vol. 5 cold war / 2008
__Net force: breaking point 1994
__Red storm rising 2001
__SSN : strategies of submarine warfare 2003
Coonts, Stephen
__Deep black ; Vol. 1 Deep black 2000
__Deep black ; Vol. 2 Biowar 2007
__Deep black ; Vol. 4 Payback 1994
__Jake Grafton ; Vol. 5 The red horseman 2006
__Jake Grafton ; Vol. 6 The intruders 2003
__Jake Grafton ; Vol. 8 Hong Kong 1984
__Jake Grafton ; Vol. 9 America 2008
__Jake Grafton ; Vol. 10 Liberty 1984
__Saucer ; Vol. 1 Saucer 2005
__Saucer ; Vol. 2 The conquest 2008
__Tommy Carmellini ; Vol. 3 The assassin 1991
__Combat 1973
__Fortunes of war 1984
Crichton, Michael
__Timeline 1997
__Jurassic Park ; Vol. 2 The lost world 2002
__Prey 2002
__Rising sun 2002
__Sphere 2002
__State of fear 2002
__Next 2005
__Airframe 2006
__Congo 2006
__Disclosure 2006
Meadows, David E
__Submarine action Final run 1997
__Joint task force: Africa 2002

Archibald.Prize.09 - Vote for your favourite

Here is a list of the finalists. You can view them at:
www.thearchibaldprize.com.au/finalists/archibald

Anthony Bennett-- Self-portrait in the bathroom discussing beauty, Bukowski and Brett Whiteley with my ex, now a stripper, who likes to dress as Wonder Woman
Ann Cape -- Lucy & friend
Adam Chang -- Spirit of an ancient culture
Mike Chavez -- Portrait of a bad muthaf***a
Jun Chen -- Ray Hughes and five other moods
Zhansui Kordelya Chi -- Good morning, this is Neil Mitchell
Yvette Coppersmith -- John Safran
Sam Cranstoun -- Gyton
Leeanne Crisp -- Considering Persephone. Portrait of Gay Bilson
Ngaire Devenport -- Ken Done
Vincent Fantauzzo -- Brandon
Hong Fu -- Dame Elisabeth Murdoch
David Griggs -- Zoloft nation (self-portrait)
Peter Hanley -- Remembering Titian
Robert Hannaford -- Self-portrait
Nicholas Harding -- Margaret Whitlam
Cherry Hood -- David Helfgott
Paul Jackson -- Flacco’s chariot
Jasper Knight -- Jasper Knight
Richard Larter -- Portrait of Nell
Sam Leach -- Marcia Langton
Mathew Lynn -- Heiress
Abbey McCulloch -- Nell
Angus McDonald -- Beyond
Alexander McKenzie -- Richard Clapton
Guy Maestri -- Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Nick Mourtzakis -- A portrait of Alex Wodak
Richard Onn -- Coupe SX010F
David Paulson & Michael Nelson Jagamara -- Michael Nelson Jagamara & singing rain story
James Powditch -- Peter Powditch is a dead man smoking
Ben Quilty -- Jimmy Barnes – there but for the grace of God no. 2
Megan Roodenrys -- Waiting for the day
Paul Ryan -- Mountain of Tom
Jenny Sages -- Heidi & Sarah-Jane ‘parallel lives’
Megan Seres -- The rest is silence (Brendan Cowell as Hamlet)
Garry Shead & Adrienne Levenson -- Soffritto di Lucio
Mark Thompson -- Greta Scacchi as Queen Elizabeth in Mary Stuart
Jan Williamson -- Nancy Kunoth Petyarr
Michael Zavros -- Ars longa, vita brevis

Leave a comment about your most and least favourite image for 2009.

Farmyard Frolics - April 21


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Embracing Diversity


We are highlighting Social Diversity in our community this month.

Diversity includes:
* race
* ethnicity
* gender
* sexual orientation
* socio-economic status
* culture
* age
* physical ability
* religious, political and other beliefs.

Environmental Display



You will find a wide range of Information Brochures on display during March about Lake Macquarie's environment (available online here).


These include:
* A Coastal Wetlands Park
* A Local Rainforest Bushfood Garden
* A Local Seaside Bushfood Garden
* A Local Wetland Bushfood Garden
* A Native Cottage Garden
* Adopt-A-SQID Groups Located Around Lake Macquarie
* Beyond the Backyard
* Black Neds Bay- A Century of Change
* Blue Flax Lily - Dianella caerulea
* Camphor Laurel - Cinnamomum camphora
* Communities Protecting Waterways
* Crofton Weed - Ageratina adenophora
* Cyclepaths in Lake Macquarie
* Eastlakes Birding Routes
* Environmental Fact Sheets
* Everything you do Affects the Lake
* Indian Myna Birds
* Lake Macquarie Catchment Poster
* Lake Macquarie Coastal Planting Guide
* Lake Macquarie Landcare Yearbook 2008
* Lake Macquarie Streambank and Foreshore Planting Guide
* Lilly Pilly - Acmena Smithii fact sheet
* List of Landcare Groups in Lake Macquarie
* Living on the Edge - A Guide for Residents in Foreshore Areas
* Managing Black Slag - Information Sheet
* Marine Turtles in Lake Macquarie and Tuggerah Lakes
* Noxious Weed Declarations
* Resources and Services for Schools
* Shared Pathway Map
* Sharing our Saltwater - Raising Biodiversity Awareness in Lake Macquarie's Marine Environments
* Stormwater Pollution - You Can Make a Difference
* Sustainable Living Guide
* The Importance of Weeds on Your Site
* The Replacement of Weed Species on Your Site with Suitable Native Species
* To Mulch or Not to Mulch?
* Waste Fact File 1 - Waste: What is it?
* Westlakes Birding Route
* Wildflowers of the Lake Macquarie Region
* Wildlife Corridors in Warners Bay