Community services
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What can Community Services offer you? Community Services provides a library and information service to everyone in the community, concentrating on those who are disadvantaged in some way. Community Services provide a home library service, services to people with a disability and people who need help with developing and improving literacy and numeracy skills. Contact details for Community Services are: Community Services Librarian Email: community_services@mackay.qld.gov.au |
Literacy and numeracyLibraries have a special collection of resources for customers needing to improve their literacy and numeracy skills. The collection contains resources for English speakers, learners of English as a second language and for all levels of numeracy. The collection includes:
Literacy and numeracy links Australian Council for Adult Literacy Australian Flexible Learning Framework Queensland Council for Adult Literacy Discoveryschool.com includes puzzle maker. Learning English offers the option to access bilingual learning English resources. Skillswise features online games, quizzes and worksheets. Teaching Treasures offers free unique teaching tools, online interactive activities, projects and worksheets. |
Community Directory
The Community Directory is a list of clubs, associations and other organisations. The Directory has been compiled by Mackay Regional Council with the assistance of Mackay clubs, associations and other organisations and it provides a useful reference for Mackay residents.
Book Loft Book ClubLibraries book club, The "Book Loft" is made up of book lovers who meet monthly after reading a pre selected book. Discussions include about a book's imact on members. The discussion is very relaxed and everyone is free to throw in a question or two, or to share a favourite scene or passage in the novel. The group decides which books will be read, and everyone has an opportunity to make suggestions for the scheduled reads. The group have been introduced to new authors and read books that may not otherwise have tried. The club meets at the Mackay City Library on the first Thursday of each month. Meetings begin at 6.00pm and finish at 7.30pm. For further information please email or phone 4961 9387. Membership Form and Guides Book Loft blog Libraries have created a blog for members and the public to add their voice out into cyber space about your views, reviews, comments, other readings, favourite books and group discussions. Your Book Loft Blog Address is www.mackaybookloft.blogspot.com |
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Current title - Notes from a small island - Bill Bryson A bookclub set for this title is currently available at Mackay City Library. After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as "The Mother Tongue" and "Made in America", decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him. |
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Adult Learners week - Special Training Event
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Broadcasting into Cyberspace – demystifying podcasting Write, speak, record and podcast - Mackay “My Space, Our Place…"
Expressions of interest are now sort from community members for a workshop introducing the use of sound recording and blog software. Mackay Regional Council Libraries and 4CRM will have you broadcasting into cyberspace your story or poem about our place, Mackay. Places are limited for this 1 day introduction course. - (Computer knowledge is a prerequisite)
Launch date for blog on - Mackay “My Space, Our Place…" Expression of interest forms maybe collected from the City Library or telephone Jessica Clark, Community Services Librarian Ph: 07 4961 9387 Funding for Adult Learners Week has been provided by the following organisations: |
  
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