Library Officer, Sarah Morrison thanks Wattle for her significant library patronage
12 February 2024
Bega Valley Shire Library did some number crunching to find out who the top borrowers – the library lovers – were for each of our four libraries and the results were very interesting.
"Lots of people around the shire visit our local libraries and use our library services, whether online or in person. However, some library lovers are extra special," Library Services Coordinator, Yvette Parker said.
"When we crunched the numbers for each library, our top borrowers over the past year were Robbie for Bermagui, Sarah and Wattle for Bega, Clare for Tura Marrang and Thea for Eden."
Robbie knows one of the library staff at Bermagui Library very well. Library Officer, Rachael Higginbotham is her daughter and both are avid readers who love nothing more than discussing the books and magazines they borrow.
"One of the reasons I love visiting the Bermagui library is the diversity of materials available in the library and for loan, including a great range of talking books which read me to sleep every night and accompany me on long car journeys. I'm also impressed with the responsiveness to my many purchase suggestions," Robbie said.
Wattle borrows books for her family and particularly enjoys using the Multicultural Loan Service to borrow boxes of Danish language books for her children because her husband is from Denmark.
The Multicultural Loan Service provides bulk loans of books in 43 languages through the State Library of NSW and the service is free.
"I love that the library is a warm and welcoming environment, including for children. The quality of the books available is amazing both for adults and children and my family also enjoys using BorrowBox, borrowing online," Wattle said.
Clare told us her family loves Storytime on Mondays and the challenge of keeping their library books separate from their own books.
"We love to have fresh reading material for our 6-year-old book worm and sometimes we find a western film or two in the DVD section," Clare said.
"Sometimes there are other fun things to do in the library too, and we're very sorry about the time our 3-year-old destroyed the 500-piece communal jigsaw puzzle that was nearly completed.
"Thanks to all the wonderful library staff for the amazing job they do!"
Thea visits Eden Library on a weekly basis with her son Isaiah.
"The library space is very welcoming and amazing. I'm a huge fan of the library app and I use it to reserve items," Thea said.
"Isaiah loves books about pirates, so we've been delving into the junior non-fiction books recently."
Ms Parker said to show their appreciation to their top library users, the libraries gave each a small Library Lovers Day gift.
Call into your local library on Wednesday 14 February, Library Lovers Day, and tell us what you love about your library service!
