Jacaranda colouring in comp 2023

  Your Library is hosting a Jacaranda Colouring in Comp! Join us in celebrating the Jacaranda season by completing one of our colouring sheets to go in the running to win an exciting prize! There are three age categories (0-3, 4-9, 10+) and two designs to choose from. Colouring-in entry forms can be picked up…

Clarence Regional Library 2033: thinking, planning, taking action

The Clarence Regional Library 2033 is a library service plan that speaks to present and future possibilities, hopes and needs of our communities. While all cultural and community services are important, public libraries are capable of doing more for more people. The planning process provides an opportunity to rethink how we, as a regional library…

Monthly Feature – Amplify

Are you interested in delving into the past of the Clarence Valley? Did you know that you can help preserve the history of the Clarence Valley and beyond? April is the perfect opportunity to connect with the history of our local area – we are celebrating both Plunge and the heritage festival. Come along to…

Live ‘n’ Loud at the library is back and bigger than ever!

Live ‘n’ Loud at the library is back and the stage is set for our biggest year yet! Head on down to the Grafton Library carpark on the 20th April from 5:00pm to 9:30pm and check out our all-ages music gig that features local muso’s and bands. We are celebrating Youth Week, April School Holidays and…

Archives On Tour comes to Grafton

One of the jewels of the State Archives Collection, a selection of volumes of the exquisitely handcrafted Carrington Albums, is making its way around regional NSW – offering visitors a chance to step back in time to an era full of pomp and ceremony. Dated from1885, The Carrington Albums are a series of 14 leather…

Monthly Feature – HUBLIO

The library is for you, and it’s about time we let you take control of your collections. Check out Hublio, It’s a tool that helps your library get new books and DVD’s that you want to read and watch. Hublio is a tool for our community—it’s driven by you and your fellow book lovers. For…

Vintage Film Club streaming into your Library!

Your monthly film club is now at your Grafton, Iluka, Bellingen, Dorrigo and Urunga libraries with the help of Beamafilm, the library movie streaming platform (also accessible for FREE from home with your library card). Join us at the below locations for our monthly film screenings, light refreshments 15 minutes before the film begins and…

The story of Bellingen Shire’s People’s Library  

by Simona Galimberti, People’s Library Coordinator  Who would have gathered 2020 to be what it has been thus far? When I walked into the Bellingen Library in 2019 with the dream to start a storytime for adults and teenagers aimed at creating social connectedness via the art of oral storytelling I did not plan for…

Two super new additions to the library collection

Clarence Regional Library is expanding its collection with two super new additions – dyslexic friendly books and indyreads. This week Clarence Valley libraries introduced dyslexic print books to its collection including 190 children’s titles and 80 adult titles. “These books are printed with a font designed to alleviate some of the difficulties typically reported by…