Children
A fun way to boost pre-school children's confidence & reading-readiness skills. Make friends, enjoy stories, learn rhymes, do some craft.
FREE!
Who: Children 3-5 years & parents/carers (younger children welcome).
When: Tuesdays 10.15am - 11.15am, during school term.
FREE!
Who: Children 0-3 years & parents/carers (older children welcome).
When: Wednesdays 10.15am - 11am, during school term.
Collections
Collections held in the Library just for children are: picture books, junior fiction and non-fiction, talking books, DVDs, videos, music CDs and educational computer games.
Student Help
Parkes Shire Library provides book, audio-visual and online resources to help students of all ages with their studies.
Excel Guides: A complete range of Excel HSC resources are held in the Parkes Library Reference collection.
Non-Fiction: Titles for all ages and a wide range of topics is held by all Parkes Shire Library branches.
ANZ Reference Centre - This is a general database of Australian and international content with articles in health, current affairs, science, social science, business and literature.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online - Find information quickly and easily by searching Britannica's four encyclopedias, magazines and journals, the Web's Best Sites, images and their collection of videos
MasterFILE Premier - This database provides full text for more than 2,100 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.
Consumer Health Complete - Contains full text articles covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
Science Reference Center - Provides easy access to a multitude of full text science oriented content. Contains full text for 640 science encyclopaedias, reference books, periodicals.
Literary Reference Center - Provides full text information on authors and their works from a combination of sources. Includes plot summaries, critical essays, reviews, poems and author biographies.
Learning Online History - a major history and reference website containing major titles adapted for online use and extensive searching capability.
Searching for Kids - sites designed specially for kids - AOL at School, AskJeeves for Kids, CyberSleuth Kids, KidsClick!
Country Women's Association country of the year - Information on Scotland.
Just for Parents
Parkes Shire Library holds many resources that can help parents in raising their children. These include books on parenting, teaching children to read and write, cooking for allergies and family medical books.
The Library also holds two special collections:
Social topic picture books - These books will help you and your child deal with potty training, bullying, visiting the dentist and even a death in the family.
The junior literacy collection will help your children practice their reading "Readers" for all reading levels are available.
