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Halloween @ your Library

Saturday 31 October

4-5pm
Before heading out ‘trick or treating’, come to the Library in your Halloween costume to listen to spooky stories inside the haunted house!
Games, poetry readings and prizes for best costumes. Ages 0-12

6-7pm
For kids aged 12 and over, join us for a vampire fiction quiz. Refreshments served and prizes for best costumes.

Come along and help us prepare for Halloween on Wednesday 28th October, as part of Children’s Week.

We will be making gravestones, bats and more! Library courtyard, 3:30-5pm. All ages.

Historical Photograph Database

The Alice Springs Public Library is glad to have the first volume of an index of photographs being scanned by local historians, Barry Allwright and Geoff Purdie.

Mount Gillen Motel, 1957 - Roger Crowe

Barry and Geoff are dedicated to retaining the town's visual history, which previously has been lost as people leave town or pass away. They anticipate donating further volumes of the index to the library as they have many more photographs to scan. They want to make the images available to anyone who wants to have a copy or use them, as long as the source is acknowledged. The index lists photographs taken by a number of people from early last century and has thumbnails of each image. People can look at the index in the Alice Springs Collection in the library; and will be able to contact Barry or Geoff for copies of the images.

For more information regarding the Historical Photograph Database please contact Barry Allwright on 8952 1726; or email Barry.allwright@bigpond.com

For any other information concerning accessing the index housed at the Library, or information on local history resources, please contact the Library on 8950 0555

For a preview of images click here