National Simultaneous Storytime

On Wednesday 21 May 2008 at 9:15am

Alice Springs Public Library will join organisations from Broome to Hobart, reading the picture book Arthur to more than a quarter of a million Australian children.

Children are invited to the Alice Springs Town Council, Civic Centre Courtyard to hear Arthur and other stories.

Special guests will include the RSPCA with some furry friends, the Alice Springs Town Council Rangers as well as Booka himself!

For further information please contact the Library on (08) 8950 0555.

New 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.

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 please contact Barry Allwright on 8952 1726; or email Barry.allwright@bigpond.com

For a preview of images click here