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Christmas Opening Hours 2020
Merry Christmas from the Glenelg Libraries team! Our Portland branch will be open in between Christmas and New Year and both Casterton and Portland libraries will be open on Saturday 2 January for all of your library needs. Read more.
Read List 2021
Summer is a great time to enjoy a good book! We’ve put together a list of 10 great stories by Australian authors to get you through the summer with plenty of thrills and entertainment. Read more.
Libraries After Dark
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School Holiday Activities - Summer 2021
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An Evening with Victoria Purman
Join ‘Read List’ featured author Victoria Purman chats with local author Maya Linnell about her new novel The Women’s Pages, on the big screen. Read more.

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Banks by Grantlee Kieza Explorer, naturalist and president of Britain's Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks was a larger-than-life character best known for his promotion of science. In 1768 Banks joined Captain James Cook's expedition to the South Pacific. The 30,000 specimens he brought back generated enormous interest, as did the sometimes racy written account of the journey, which chronicled his frequent amorous exploits. Banks' passion for the new and unusual flora of Australia led him to recommend Botany Bay to parliament as an excellent place for a penal settlement, despite the fact the soil was poor and there was no fresh running water, but he later became the foremost expert on everything Australian. This is a rich and rollicking biography of one of Britain's most colourful and successful scientists.

The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? To Ryusei, a fellow student at Waseda; Chie, Miwako's best friend; and Fumi, Ryusei's older sister, Miwako was more than the blunt, no-nonsense person she projected to the world. Heartbroken, Ryusei begs Chie to take him to the village where Miwako spent her final days. While he is away, Fumi receives an unexpected guest at their shared apartment in Tokyo, increasingly fearful that Miwako's death may ruin what is left of her brother's life. Expanding on the beautifully crafted world of Rainbirds, Clarissa Goenawan gradually pierces through a young woman's careful façade, unmasking her most painful secrets.

Nala's World by Dean Nicholson Instagram phenomenon @1bike1world Dean Nicholson reveals the full story of his life-changing friendship with rescue cat Nala and their inspiring adventures together on a bike journey around the world.

Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, some kind of end- that you have reached a destination in the very least. Yet as the sign states, Darnmoor is merely a gateway, a waypoint on the road to where you really want to be. Darnmoor is the home of the Billymil family, three generations who have lived in this 'gateway town'. Race relations between Indigenous and settler families are fraught, though the rigid status quo is upheld through threats and soft power rather than the overt violence of yesteryear.As progress marches forwards, Darnmoor and its surrounds undergo rapid social and environmental changes, but as some things change, some stay exactly the same. The Billymil family are watched (and sometimes visited) by ancestral spirits and spirits of the recently deceased, who look out for their descendants and attempt to help them on the right path. When the town's secrets start to be uncovered the town will be rocked by a violent act that forever shatters a century of silence.

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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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Trove

Trove Trove is a place to explore all things Australian It is a single point of entry to a treasure trove of artefacts, curiosities and stories from Australia's cultural, community and research institutions. Trove connects you to di...

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, and immigration record...

Australian Policy Online

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I Want To...

Latest Happenings

E-Newsletter

Christmas Opening Hours 2020

Read List 2021

Libraries After Dark

Glenelg Libraries Open

School Holiday Activities - Summer 2021

An Evening with Victoria Purman

Staff and Reader Picks

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Databases & Online Research

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