A World of Fairies

Come see our magical display...

Complete idiot's guide to elves and fairies by Sirona Knight.
Dragons, little people, witches, fairies, trolls and elves
Elves & fairies
Faeries
Fairies : celebrations from season to season
Fairy magic
Great encyclopedia of faeries
Imps, demons, hobgoblins, witches, fairies & elves
Lady Cottington's pressed fairy book
Magicians and fairies
Practical guide to faeries by Susan J. Morris
Secret world of the flower fairies
Working with angels, fairies & nature spirits by William Bloom.

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)”
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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”.