Library News Tea and Tales Did You Know? Community News     Volunteers' newsletter             Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Twitter and find out about the collections, events and hidden gems of our libraries. It's easy! You can follow us from your computer or cellphone! Find out more.     Library week 16 - 22 August There will be Tea and Tales sessions at each library, where all are welcome to come and enjoy a cup of tea and share an hour of stories, poems, excerpts and anecdotes. Paraparaumu Library –Monday 16 August 9.45 - 11am Waikanae Library - Monday 16 August 1.15 - 2.30pm Ōtaki Library - Tuesday 17 August 1.15 - 2.30pm At 10:30am on Wednesday 11th August children, librarians, parents and teachers will gather in libraries all across the country for this very special Library Week event. The story we will be reading this year is Mr Muggs The Library Cat by New Zealand author Dave Gunson. Love Your Library Day -  Friday 20th August Library week around New Zealand Friends of the Library events Readers' Quiz Night - at Paraparaumu Community Centre, Friday 30 July  7.30 pm. $10 per ticket. Tickets available at the libraries. All welcome. 2011 Rugby World Cup Volunteer to help at the 2011 Rugby World Cup You can log on to volunteer at any of our libraries. Arty August 2010 Local artists at work All August - all art! “Arty August” is back in 2010, after alternating with our “Off the Page” literary events festival in 2009. Paraparaumu Library  Angie Salmon  2964-889 angie.salmon@kapiticoast.govt.nz Waikanae Library  Amanda Andrews 2964-760 amanda.andrews@kapiticoast.govt.nz Ōtaki Library   Kristie Parata  (06) 3649-300 kristie.parata@kapiticoast.govt.nz   Tea and Tales We invite you to our new Tea and Tales sessions where all are welcome to come and enjoy a cup of tea and share an hour of stories, poems, excerpts and anecdotes. We have three entertaining readers who have chosen the best of humorous, thought-provoking, moving and insightful material from our collections.   “No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)   All welcome - no charge All enquiries to: Kaye Foran Information Services Librarian 2964 881  kaye.foran@kapiticoast.govt.nz   Readings from 6 July 2010 Paraparaumu Library First Tuesday of every month. 9.45am - 11.00 am   Online library resources Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/texts Project Gutenburg http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/ Scribd  http://scribd.com/ Google Books http://books.google.com/books Wikibooks – free educational books http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page Many Books http://manybooks.net/   Literature Resource Centre    To find some information on authors and books - try searching our Literature Resource Centre database. More databases can be found here.   Did you know Did you know you can access the Māori Land Court Minute Books Index from your home computer. Look here. Did you know that PressDisplay gives you access to fulltext current issues of newspapers in the original form from all over the world. (Look under the Magazines/journals link) Community News Kāpiti Independent News K C News - the internet newspaper for Kāpiti Coast. Waikanae Estuary News is a monthly newsletter which keeps you informed about activity in and around the Waikanae Estuary. Kāpiti Community Pānui is a regular newslatter which keeps you informed of community and volunteer activities within the Kāpiti region. The Nature Coast Events Newsletter covers all events including the arts along the Kapiti/Horowhenua coast. It is distributed via email each week. If you would like to receive this newsletter via email please contact Kellie Brown.