This is a promotion of the Mona Vale Library as
part of the "Senior Week", run by the local Northern Beaches Council . This involves local government and private promoters, offering various activities such as painting and dancing classes, health and wellbeing seminars, swimming, tennis, golf and bushwalking. Reading does come as a first option for many seniors, especially for the library's Home readers service.
According to the 2011 census,
in the Northern Beaches and particularly in the Pittwater area, the number of
retired and elderly residents is above average when compared with the rest of
NSW. * Most of these are female and not all have access to the internet. The home readers service is very popular in this area and has become even more so due the ageing population factor we all know about.
A second language being spoken in
more than half of the households in the Pittwater area, like
Italian, Spanish, Serbian and Croatian, French and German make this promotion even more attractive by providing books in these languages as well as a few others, such as Chinese, Dutch and Japanese.
These senior residents have travelled extensively before settling here and most of them still visit relatives and friends and holiday overseas.
Exotic food and cooking, recipes blended with travel and served with a side dish or romance is just what they need to truly appreciated the efforts of their local library in Mona Vale in providing them with interesting and exciting reading that they can also recommend to their friends. "Great library" will be on all their lips as soon as they find out about this promotion.
This is a public blog freely accessible to the Northern Beaches Library Services and it would be printed on fliers and distributed by the librarians at the Mona Vale Home readers service. They can leave suggestions and remarks on the blog or the library website or pass them on to the Home readers services.
These senior residents have travelled extensively before settling here and most of them still visit relatives and friends and holiday overseas.
Exotic food and cooking, recipes blended with travel and served with a side dish or romance is just what they need to truly appreciated the efforts of their local library in Mona Vale in providing them with interesting and exciting reading that they can also recommend to their friends. "Great library" will be on all their lips as soon as they find out about this promotion.
This is a public blog freely accessible to the Northern Beaches Library Services and it would be printed on fliers and distributed by the librarians at the Mona Vale Home readers service. They can leave suggestions and remarks on the blog or the library website or pass them on to the Home readers services.
The Northern Beaches Council has recently merged
all libraries in the current Northern Beaches Libraries, incorporating
Manly-Warringah and Pittwater.
The libraries at Manly, Warringah Mall, Dee Why,
Forestville, Glen Street, Mona Vale and Avalon can now all be accessed through
the new website** where readers can search and request services after selecting one of these libraries from the drop down menu.
This promotion targets the Home Readers of the
library and complements its Home Readers Services in the Pittwater area, where
Mona Vale is the local library, however, home readers services at the other
Northern Beaches libraries will be carrying a similar promotion on a different
theme in order to get the home readers involved in reading according to their
specific interests.This particular group of readers are in a majority of mature age and elderly. They do not drive and have limited access to the library resources.
In order to alleviate this isolation from available
resources, the Home Readers Services will be running the following promotion in
a Blog format, where all readers can follow the recommended material and enjoy
the latest library additions.
Our library is there for all. We hope you enjoy the books we selected here and recommend them to your friends. Please let us know if you have any further suggestions or requests, we shall endeavour to accommodate them.
Our library is there for all. We hope you enjoy the books we selected here and recommend them to your friends. Please let us know if you have any further suggestions or requests, we shall endeavour to accommodate them.
