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We recently received the certificate shown below, commemorating the 80 millionth transaction in the Swift Consortium.

Cardinia Shire Council, assisted by the Library Corporation, has been successful in obtaining a ‘Living Libraries grant to assist in the refurbishment of the Cardinia Mobile Library. The grant, to the value of $49,000, will be matched by Cardinia Shire to give a total of $98,000 for the refurbishment of the mobile library trailer.

I was at Cranbourne Library earlier this week, in time to see the just-installed CCLC Staff art and craft display there.  I was very impressed with the quality of work that library staff create outside of work.  We have a very creative group of people working with us and for you.

At the recent LibMark "Digital Marketing and Libraries" seminar, Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation received an Award for Marketing and Promotion for our
Quicksand blog.

Due to construction work HAMPTON PARK LIBRARY will be CLOSED on Tuesday 27 October 2009. The Library will re-open for business as usual on Wednesday 28 October.

Other libraries are located at Cranbourne, Doveton, Emerald, Endeavour Hills, Narre Warren and Pakenham.

To access the library catalogue, click here - it's open 24/7!

Enquiries: call 5990 0100

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Work has begun on the Hampton Park Library Extension and the new Youth Centre, with the fencing off of the construction site.  The new building works will fill the space between the current library building and the Arthur Wren Hall next door and is expected to be completed by March/April 2010.

The extra library space, which will be 270 square metres will add additional space for collections, study, public computers and a teenage area. It will have the same look and feel as the current library, but will include additional features such as computer games consoles.

Our new catalogue interface has launched this morning, but not without some minor issues.  We are working with our library system provider to resolve them and hopefully will have most of them fixed by this time tomorrow.
Problems we have noted include:

From Monday 12th October, you will see a new look library catalogue. The screen you see will look different, and has been designed to have a similar look and feel to the library website.

Also, some of the wording has changed. For example, to access your library card, you will click on the link 'My Library Card'.

The 10,000 Steps program is giving you the chance to win one of two 3 month full access memberships to use at Casey RACE and Casey ARC.

The 2009 Green Light Report is a Victorian Government initiative to provide insight into the environmental attitudes, behaviours and household features of Victorians. It was commissioned by Sustainability Victoria.

This year's Report also reports specifically on 15 local areas across Victoria.

Click here to view or download the report.