Monash Public Library Service

Meet other carers in your local library and enjoy stories and rhymes with your baby. Babytime is for babies aged 12 months and under. Bookings required for anyone over 12 months, including children (but not babies under 12 mths). Bookings open 2 days before each session.

Create your own feathery creatures in this craft session. Ages: 5-12 Cost: FREE Bookings essential

Free time to spend building, creating, designing new things with heaps of Lego pieces supplied. For primary school age children.

Dr Lee Kofman is a Russian-born Israeli-Australian author of six books and editor of two anthologies, writing teacher and mentor based in Melbourne. Her writing and reading life began a long time ago in a remote Siberian village where she recited her first poem to an admiring crowd of illiterate babushkas. What followed was decades of wrestling with the art and craft of writing and passionate reading and has been distilled into her latest work - 'The Writer Laid Bare.'

Join us in the Monash Gallery of Art for a special Storytime. The Monash Gallery of Art is located in the same building as the Wheelers Hill Library. Ages: 1-5 Cost: FREE Bookings required (please book for adults and children attending)

Join Wendy for stories, songs and activities Toddlers and preschoolers can sing songs & rhymes, share stories and learn early social skills at Storytime. For ages 1-5 BOOKINGS OPEN AT 10AM TWO DAYS PRIOR TO EACH SESSION Bookings essential for all attending (except children under 12 months)

Do you get little opportunity to speak in Mandarin? Come to our free monthly program and work with a Chinese speaking staff member who will assist you with your pronunciation and enhance your verbal and listening skills. Participants are required to already have a basic knowledge of speaking Mandarin. For adults and teenagers. Limited spaces available 如果您说普通话的机会有限，我们每月一次的免费活动将为您提供 提高语言能力的机会. 我们的中文协助者 将帮助符合条件的成年人和青少年，纠正他们的发音，提高口语和听力能力. 参加者需要能够讲基本普通话.

Join us for fun craft activity. Ages: 5-11 Cost: FREE Bookings essential

Join Michelle for stories and songs

Οικογένειες με μικρά παιδιά μπορούν να απολαύσουν την ώρα του παραμυθιού στην βιβλιοθήκη του Oakleigh. Families with young children can enjoy a Storytime in Greek at the Oakleigh Library. Ελληνικό Παραμύθι θα παρουσιάζεται κάθε εβδομάδα από τον Φεβρουάριο μέχρι το τέλος Νοεμβρίου εκτός από τις σχολικές διακοπές. Storytime in Greek is held weekly, Feb-Nov. Bookings open at 10am, two days prior to the session. Bookings essential for all attending (except those under 12 months).

Enjoy stories and rhymes with your baby & meet other carers in your local library. Babytime is for babies aged 12 months and under. Bookings required for anyone over 12 months, including children (but not babies under 12 mths). Bookings open 2 days before each session.

Meet other carers in your local library and enjoy stories and rhymes with your baby. Babytime is for babies aged 12 months and under. Bookings required for anyone over 12 months. Bookings open 2 days before each session.

Join us for stories and songs Bookings required for adults and children attending (children under 12 months do not require a booking). Bookings open 2 days prior to each session at 10am.

Join Suzi and Michelle for stories and songs Bookings required for adults and children attending (children under 12 months do not require a booking). BOOKINGS OPEN 2 DAYS PRIOR TO EACH SESSION AT 10AM.

Join Lilian for stories and songs Bookings required for adults and children attending (children under 12 months do not require a booking).

Meet other carers in your local library and enjoy stories and rhymes with your baby. BabyTime is for babies aged 12 months and under.

Meet other carers in your local library and enjoy stories and rhymes with your baby. Babytime is for babies aged 12 months and under. Bookings required for anyone over 12 months, including children (but not babies under 12 months). Bookings open 2 days before each session.

Join Bronwyn for stories and songs Bookings required for adults and children attending (children under 12 months do not require a booking).

Get creative with Lego at Lego Club.

Randa Abdel-Fattah is a prominent Australian author, academic, human rights advocate, former lawyer and mother of four children. An award winning author, Randa writes across a wide range of genres and actively seeks to translate her academic work into creative interventions. Her most recent work - 'Coming of Age in the War on Terror' – examines the lives of a generation for whom the rise of the far-right and the growing polarisation of politics seem normal.

有幼儿的家庭可以带小朋友 到图书馆参加国语故事会。 Join "A Little Chinese Adventure" for Chinese stories and songs Bookings open at 10am one week prior to the session. Bookings essential for all attending (except those under 12 months).

Toddlers and preschoolers can sing songs & rhymes, share stories and learn early social skills at Storytime. For ages 1-5 Bookings open 2 days before each session. Bookings essential for all attending (except children under 12 months).

Meet other carers in your local library and enjoy stories and rhymes with your baby. Babytime is for babies aged 12 months and under. Bookings required for anyone over 12 months, including children (but not babies under 12 mths). BOOKINGS OPEN 2 DAYS BEFORE EACH SESSION.

Play, create, and enjoy. Join us for an hour of Lego fun once a month, for Primary school aged children.

A free program for community members from non-English speaking backgrounds to improve their English language skills, connect with other residents and learn more about Australian culture. Reading materials will need to be provided. Sessions are aimed at Beginner Level. You can book for any session. You do not have to book for all sessions.

Develop your creative writing skills with author Melissa Gijsbers. Sessions include fun writing activities, meeting other young writers and feedback on your writing. For writers aged 11-18 years.

This event is for an in-person booking for the Sir John Monash Lecture, which will include a tour of the exhibition and in-person welcome from some of the panelists before the full panel is formed online. 6pm: "Being a voice" exhibition tour begins 7pm: Sir John Monash Lecture commences on Zoom - this will be broadcast into the gallery space for in-person attendees. Please note if you have booked a ticket for this event you do not need to book a separate ticket for the lecture on Zoom.

Learn all about the beautiful art of Bonsai in this workshop presented by Victor Byrdy from The Bonsai Society of Victoria. The session will introduce the craft of Bonsai, a range of plants and styles, potting, care and maintenance. Attendees are welcome to bring along their own plant for personalised advice.

For the 2022 Sir John Monash Lecture the City of Monash presents an exciting panel discussion on the theme of wisdom from the unique and diverse perspective of the LGBTQI+ community, which will be delivered online via Zoom and feature panelists Benjamin Law, Gary Lonesborough, Roz Bellamy, and Sam Elkin. Our panel members will discuss their individual authorship and creative voice and share insights gained during the past two years of living and working during pandemic conditions.

Do you use the internet or have a digital device? Our important documents, accounts and memories are increasingly stored online and these can be lost if we don't plan for what happens to them. This session will explain what is meant by a Digital Legacy and how you can manage your digital assets as part of your estate. Important: This session does not provide legal advice, but will give you some handy things to think about when planning what happens to your online presence.

有幼儿的家庭可以带小朋友 到图书馆参加国语故事会。 Families with young children can enjoy a Storytime in Chinese.

Get creative with Lego at Lego Club. The club operates from 4pm - 5pm. For ages: 5+

Build your confidence in using online financial services and grow your knowledge of online privacy and scams in this free course. Learn how to tell if online websites and applications are trustworthy, how to safeguard your privacy online, and how to protect yourself from scams.

Famiglie con bambini piccoli possono partecipare alle storie in Italiano. Families with young children can enjoy a Storytime in Italian Bookings open at 10am one week prior to the session. Bookings essential for all attending (except those under 12 months).

Are you interested in becoming a foster carer? Foster Care means a child can live with a different family who aims to provide them with the care and support by offering a safe, secure and nurturing home. It can be a life-changing experience – not just for you and your family, but for the children you help too. Join Key Assets Victoria for this information session to learn more about how you could make a difference.

Join us for a fun Bedtime Storytime (Zoom session). Enjoy songs, rhymes & stories galore. Don't forget to wear your pj and bring your teddy bear! For children and their families. Bookings open one week before session. Bookings essential: only one booking required per household.

Learn how to knit a chunky scarf using your arms only! The workshop is structured for you to practice and familiarise yourself with the techniques of casting on, casting off and changing yarn to create different twists and colours. You will finish off the scarf in your own space after class. One yarn ball is provided for you to practice and take home. Feel free to bring extra yarns to make it chunkier. More instructions on yarns will be provided in the session.

This course looks at the basics of creating a great presentation for audiences of any size. It focuses on how to captivate an attention of an audience and keep them engaged. Best practice tools are offered on how to use digital tools to enrich a presentation.

Get creative with Lego at Lego Club. The sessions are held monthly on the 4th Tuesday of the month from 4-5pm.

In 2017 the Carnegie, Murrumbeena and Hughesdale stations were demolished to make way for Skyrail. This talk by the Glen Eira Historical Society tells the history of these local train stations (along with Caulfield and Oakleigh stations) and the communities they served. Personal stories and memories bring this local history to life. Copies of the book of the same name will be available for sale on the day.

Learn how to make clover flowers that never die and design jewellery for daily wear or special occasions. We’ll introduce fabric flowers in haute couture and home decoration. You’ll learn fabric petal shaping, twisting and assembling. All materials will be provided. In this workshop you will learn an introduction of application of fabric flowers in haute couture and home decoration; demonstration of special fabric treatment with a resin glue; fabric petal shaping and twisting techniques.

Pick up your mystery Scratch Art bag from Clayton Library. Pick up time: 2.30pm-4pm Ages: 5-7 Cost: FREE Bookings essential

Clem’s writing appears regularly in The Guardian, and she has written extensively for The Saturday Paper, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Big Issue. Her debut nonfiction book, Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life was published in July 2021. In this event Clem will touch on what inspired her to document her story, and why it is so important to challenge the broader cultural implications and ideas around autism, especially for women and gender-diverse people.

Join us for a fun craft activity. Ages: 6-12 Cost: FREE Bookings essential

Build and decorate your own money box. Ages: 7-12 Cost: FREE Bookings essential

Join Emily from the Library and Jess from the Monash Gallery of Art to create your own natural collage. Ages: 6-10 Cost: FREE Bookings essential

Join us for an hour of fun whilst we're exercising our brains! You'll be solving puzzles, brain-teasers whilst working in teams.

Be a palaeontlogist for the day and dig out some fossils. Ages: 5-12 Cost: $4.30 ($3.80 + $0.50 ticket fee) Tickets are not refundable if you are unable to attend an event. If the event is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances, a refund will be issued to all patrons except for the Trybooking ticket fee of 50c. Bookings essential

Join us for a special online event to learn more about how you can use police records when researching your family history. Dr Gary Presland is a highly experienced public speaker and lecturer of more than 35 years’ standing, and a regular participant in community/Council-based workshops and forums. An event in partnership with the Monash Libraries Family History Group.

We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict the seasons or plant our gardens. But First Nations Elders around the world still maintain this knowledge, and there is much we can learn. Join Duane Hamacher as he takes us on a journey across space and time to reveal the wisdom of the first astronomers. Duane Hamacher is Ass. Prof. of Cultural Astronomy in the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne. An event for NAIDOC Week.

This session is designed for adult authors (18+) who want to write for the Young Adult market. Danielle Binks is a literary agent and author of middle-grade and young-adult fiction books. She is a passionate ‘youth literature advocate’ who champions Australia’s national youth literature and writes compelling contemporary stories for young people. Danielle will use this workshop to guide adult authors writing for the Young Adult market and help bolster their skills.

Join us for a virtual Storytime with author and illustrator Nicki Greenberg. The Zoom link will be sent close the the event. Ages: 1-7 Cost: FREE Bookings essential (only one booking per family required)

Learn about aviation from a real pilot. Ages: 8-12 Cost: FREE Bookings essential

Join Michelle for stories and songs

Van Badham is a writer, theatre-maker and novelist, occasional broadcaster, critic, trade unionist and feminist. She writes columns for the Guardian and her interests include gardening, baking and dialectical materialism. She will discuss her book 'QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults', which delves into some of the internet’s most extreme communities to understand conspiracy cults from the inside.

Join author/illustrator Jess Racklyeft to create your own textured cloud wall hanging. Ages: 7-11 Cost: $4.30 ($3.80 + $0.50 ticket fee) Tickets are not refundable if you are unable to attend an event. If the event is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances, a refund will be issued to all patrons except for the Trybooking ticket fee of 50c. Bookings essential

Join us for a Musical Puppet Show. Ages: 5-10 Cost: $4.30 ($3.80 + $0.50 ticket fee) Tickets are not refundable if you are unable to attend an event. If the event is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances, a refund will be issued to all patrons except for the Trybooking ticket fee of 50c. Bookings essential

Join author/illustrator Jess Racklyeft to create your own textured cloud wall haning. Ages: 7-11 Cost: $4.30 ($3.80 + $0.50 ticket fee) Tickets are not refundable if you are unable to attend an event. If the event is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances, a refund will be issued to all patrons except for the Trybooking ticket fee of 50c. Bookings essential

Spark your curiosity with a deep dive into electricity and circuits. Time: 2.30pm-4pm Ages: 9-12 Cost: FREE Bookings essential

In this workshop you will create your own unique sustainable jewellery. Jewellery designer Vivian Qiu will demonstrate non-traditional techniques of making jewellery. The session will cover Jewellery design thinking and sketching; how to manipulate recycled materials into unique design; and Jewellery assembling. All recycled and sustainable materials will be provided.

Build rockets and catapults, and discover forces and motion. Time: 11am-12:30pm Ages: 9-12 Cost: FREE Bookings essential

Ed Coper is a leading communications expert and was on the front lines when the internet collided with democracy, growing Australia's first online political movement GetUp to quickly amass more members than every political party combined. In discussing his most recent book, 'Facts and other lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age' Ed will put fake news in its historical context and explain how disinformation has fractured society, even threatening democracy itself.

Join us for a fun craft activity. Ages: 4-8 Cost: FREE Bookings essential

Create your own watercolour masterpiece and transform it into a fridge magnet. (Please bring your own smock or wear old clothes) Ages: 7-13 Cost: FREE Bookings essential

Learn about science through amazing experiments. Ages: 5-12 Cost: $4.30 ($3.80 _ $0.50 ticket fee) Please note: no refunds on tickets unless the library cancels the event (ticket fee is non-refundable)

Join us for a virtual Storytime with author and illustrator Sara Acton. The Zoom link will be emailed close to the event. Ages: 1-7 Cost: FREE Bookings essential (only one booking required per family)

Have fun with hoops, juggling, acrobatics and more. Ages: 6-12 Time: 10am-11.30am Cost: $4.30 ($3.80 + $0.50 ticket fee) Tickets are not refundable if you are unable to attend an event. If the event is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances, a refund will be issued to all patrons except for the Trybooking ticket fee of 50c.

Huda Hayek is the second youngest of seven children, born to Lebanese-Australian parents. She was born in Adelaide, grew up in Perth and now lives in Melbourne. Huda enjoys exploring themes of identity - what it means to be Australian, Muslim, and Lebanese. This workshop will teach writers how to embrace their own backgrounds and experiences to create an ‘own voices’ story.

In this session we will introduce you to tablets which use touchscreen technology. We will show you how to use a touchscreen and keyboard on the tablet, how to access the Internet and connect to wifi and demonstrate how to download and use apps. iPads will be available to use in the session but you are welcome to bring your own.

Featuring panelists Cath Moore, Christian White, and Graeme Simsion. Great books often get snapped up by the movie industry to be turned into films – some great, some less so. Our panelists will discuss the experience of writing for screen and writing a novel, where these two artforms differ, and provide insight into some of the work that goes on behind the scenes in the process of adapting a work into another artform.

During this workshop, you will learn about how honeybees make beeswax, its amazing antibacterial properties, and how we can use it to reduce our footprint on the planet. Each participant will make their own beeswax food wrap to take home along with a 100% pure beeswax candle. Demonstration of various candle making techniques with be demonstrated and discussed.

A free program for community members from non-English speaking backgrounds to improve their English language skills, connect with other residents and learn more about Australian culture. Reading materials will need to be provided. Sessions are Intermediate-Advanced Level. You can book for any session. You do not have to book for all sessions.

Peter Papathanasiou was born in northern Greece and adopted as a baby to an Australian family. His writing has been published internationally by The New York Times, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, ABC and SBS. Peter will discuss his debut ‘outback noir’ crime novel, 'The Stoning', which was described by The Times in the UK as "the crime debut of the year" in 2021. He will also discuss his experiences writing from a multicultural background.

This course will give you tips on how to properly prepare for a job interview, to manage nerves, make a great impression and finish strong.

This workshop is limited to writers aged 12-18. Kate Constable is the author of the acclaimed and internationally published fantasy trilogy, 'The Chanters of Tremaris'. She has also written three realist books for teenagers as part of the highly successful Girlfriend Fiction series. Her most recent book, 'The January Stars' received multiple award nominations. In this workshop, Kate will distil years of writing experience and deliver it to young writers.

In this workshop you will learn how to set up an email account and how to read and reply to emails that have been sent to you as well as some extras such as attaching a document or an image to an email and understanding your email address book. This is the 3rd in a series of four workshops, each covering a different basic digital technology topic, and bookings should be made for each workshop.

Join us online for a special Storytime with authors Aunty Fay Muir and Sue Lawson. Please note: this event was originally scheduled as an in-person event, and has been updated to a virtual event. The Zoom link will be sent close to the date of the event. Ages: 1-5 Cost: FREE Bookings essential

Clementine Ford is a Melbourne based writer, speaker and feminist thinker. Her take on social issues is bold, brave and entertaining. She inspires and challenges people of all ages in equal measure. The focus of this event will be her latest work, 'How We Love', a tender and lyrical memoir that explores love in its many forms, through Clementine’s own experiences.

Get best practice tips for writing a cover letter when you’re applying for a job and learn about some of the digital tools that will help you stand out from the crowd.

In this workshop we will show you the basics of internet searching and 'surfing the web'. We will also help you understand and recognise the threats the the internet might present, the measures you can take to avoid them, and the tools available to protect you and your device. This is the 2nd of a series of four workshops, each covering a different basic digital technology topic, and bookings should be made for each workshop.