Glenelg Libraries - Glenelg Libraries

I Want To...

Latest Happenings

Narrawong History & Local Author Forum
Don’t miss this unique and free event is presented as part of the Narrawong Kang-o-meerteek - Small Town Transformation project in partnership with Glenelg Libraries. Read more...
1000 Books Before School
Get your child school-ready!
Register for 1000 Books Before School at Glenelg Libraries... Read More...
Beamafilm - New to the Library!
Welcome to Beamafilm - Australia’s only movie streaming channel for true stories and independent voices.
We hope you enjoy our unique and premium library movie streaming service... Read More...
Tech trouble? Tech Savvy Seniors!
NEW SESSIONS - Portland, Heywood and Casterton Libraries
FREE hands-on technology training
Grab a brochure today... Read more...
OnePlay
Glenelg Libraries now offers OnePlay! Play 1000+ games for PC, Mac and Android - no limits! Download games directly to your PC, Mac... Read More...
Library2Go Hits The Road
Glenelg Libraries is on the move, providing a new outreach mobile service to support the shire’s regional communities.
The Library2Go vehicle visits Dartmoor, Merino and Digby... Read More...
New Online Puzzles!
Solving puzzles on a regular basis is highly beneficial for improving and maintain good brain health. The Clue Detective’s Online Puzzles Portal makes it very easy to access... Read more...
Credo Reference Guide
Need a definition? An Image? Need help pronouncing a difficult word? Or need a famous quotation to kick off your research paper? Get a quick answer from Credo Reference! Read more...
New eNewsletter
Glenelg Libraries has a brand new eNewsletter to keep you up to date and informed of all the latest events and happenings... Click here to subscribe...

Staff and Reader Picks

We're All Going to Die by Leah Kaminsky This is that rare and wonderful thing - a joyful book about death. The one certainty about life is that everybody is going to die. Yet again and again, we deny this central fact of our lives. We ignore it, hoping it will go away, putting our heads in the sand. We're living in an aging society, where we are all living longer, healthier lives, yet we find ourselves less and less prepared for our inevitable end. Leah Kaminsky is an award-winning writer and an Australian GP, who is confronted by death and mortality on a daily basis. She sees - and shares - our fears of death and dying. But she also sees some people, inspiring people, whose response to their imminent death is to choose, instead, to consciously embrace life. Like 90 year old Julia, a great-great-grandmother, officially an LOL in Leah's medical terminology (little old lady), who wants to compete in the Senior Olympics.

The No Spend Year by Michelle McGagh Michelle McGagh has been writing about money for over a decade. You'd think that would make her a whizz with her own cash, right? Wrong! Spending with abandon and ignoring bank statements were her modus operandi. Just because she wasn't in serious debt, apart from her massive London mortgage, she thought she was in control. She wasn't. Something needed to be done but rather than cut back here and there, Michelle's approach was more radical. She set herself a challenge to not spend anything for an entire year. She pays her bills and she has a minimal budget for her weekly groceries and household essentials but otherwise Michelle doesn't spend any money at all. She is finding creative ways to get the things she needs, to travel and to still be able to enjoy her time. Not only has she saved money but she is happier: no longer feeling the desire to buy things all the time or feeling the pressure of being sold to. Her relationship with money, with things, with time, with others has changed for the better. The No Spend Year is Michelle's honestly written and personal account of her challenge. But it is more than that, it is also a tool for life that will help you get to grips with your own financial situation. She talks about money in an accessible, unintimidating and often entertaining way and interspersed throughout are really brilliant personal finance tips and life hacks about interest, mortgages, savings , pensions and spending less to help you live a more financially secure life too.

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk By Kathleen Rooney Lillian Boxfish took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. Now it's the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. Manhattan is grittier now, but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, bodega clerks, security guards, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be, while reviewing a life of excitement and adversity, passion and heartbreak, illuminating all the ways New York has changed-- and has not.

A Life to Kill by Matthew Hall From the bestselling author of the Coroner Jenny Cooper series comes A Like to Kill, Matthew Hall's most gripping, moving and timely thriller to date. If they're hiding something, we've got a right to know. We've got a right to know what Kenny died for ...The day they've all been waiting for is at hand. The last British combat soldiers in Helmand are counting the minutes until their departure for home. For their excited families in Highcliffe, it spells the end of an agonizing six month wait. But in the final hours, disaster strikes. Nineteen-year-old Private Pete 'Skippy' Lyons is abducted and the patrol sent out to locate him is ambushed. One killed, two injured. One still missing in action ...Their loved ones are left desperate for answers the Army won't provide. How could Private Lyons have been snatched from a heavily fortified command post? And why are officers trying to disguise what happened during the mission to save him? Their only hope lies with Coroner Jenny Cooper, who must take on the full might of the military to stop the truth being buried along with the boy soldiers. But in a town filled with secrets and rumours, it's not only the Army that has something to hide.

Search The Catalogue

Databases & Online Research

Prev Next

The Law Handbook Online

The Law Handbook Online - Contains thorough legislation and case indexes that are cross-referenced and linked to the content, a database of addresses and contact details to relevant legal and non-legal services, many of which con...

Ancestry

Ancestry - Ancestry® Library Edition is one of the most important genealogical collections available today. It has unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, a...

Aussie Driver

Did you know 1 in 4 potential drivers fail their driver knowledge test the first time? Aussie-Driver.com is a new site added to the Glenelg Libraries website which allows learner drivers to test their knowledge of road rules. It is f...

Australian Dictionary of Biography

Australian Dictionary of Biography - Australia's pre-eminent Dictionary of National Biography. It includes over 10,000 scholarly biographies of persons who were significant in Australian history.

The Conversation

The Conversation - Launched in March 2011, The Conversation is an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the university and research sector – written by acknowledged experts and delivered directly to the public...

Credo Reference Guide

Need a definition? An Image? Need help pronouncing a difficult word? Or need a famous quotation to kick off your research paper? Get a quick answer from Credo Reference! Credo Reference offers over 3,000,000 reference entries fr...

Australian Policy Online

Policy Online is a research database and alert service providing free access to full text research reports and papers, statistics and other resources essential for public policy development and implementation in Australia and New Zeala...

Everyday-Law

Everyday-Law has been developed to help Victorians better understand the law and their legal system by providing the best, easy-to-understand legal information in one spot. You can search the site to:better understand yo...

AudioBookCloud

AudioBookCloud - An online Audio book library collection of streaming audio books. Titles include unabridged high quality audio versions of classics of American and world literature, non-fiction, fiction and children and teen books. We...

Trove (Inc Picture Australia)

Trove Online Newspapers (incorporating Pictures Australia) - What do you get when you combine an open-source search engine, five dedicated software engineers, and the combined artistic resources of over 1000 libraries, museums, and oth...

Library Newsletter

Click below to subscribe to our Monthly Newsletter

Digital Library

eBooks and eAudioBooks available now!

EBOOKS & EAUDIOBOOKS

EBOOKS

DOCUMENTARIES

Branches:	Portland	Address:	Portland	Contact:	Portland	Council Sites:
	Casterton		32 Bentinck St		Open Today: 10AM - 4PM	Glenelg Shire Council
	Heywood		Portland VIC 3305		(03) 5522 2265	Glenelg Shire Aged Care & Disability
	Outreach		Casterton		Casterton	Glenelg Shire Arts
			67 Henty St		Open Today: 9AM - 12PM	Glenelg Shire Sports and Recreation
			Casterton VIC 3311		(03) 5554 2444	Glenelg Shire Youth
			Heywood		Heywood	Tourism
			77 Edgar St		Open Today: CLOSED	Whalemail
			Heywood VIC 3304		(03) 5527 0666	Content © Glenelg Libraries 2016

I Want To...

Latest Happenings

Narrawong History & Local Author Forum

1000 Books Before School

Beamafilm - New to the Library!

Tech trouble? Tech Savvy Seniors!

OnePlay

Library2Go Hits The Road