July's After Dark Movie will be held Thursday 24 July at 6.30 pm. 

For more information, please contact the Library on 0267302600. 

We're hosting author Nicole Alexander LIVE in the Library, Saturday 17 May at 10.30am. 

Bookings essential https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/nicole-alexander-author-talk-tickets-1311348491639?aff=oddtdtcreator 

Friends of the Library Annual Book Sale is on again! 

We're excited to be hosting two performances as part of this year's Australian Celtic Festival, Siobhan Owen from 10 - 10.30 am and Abakus Celtic Trio from 11 - 11.30 am, LIVE in the Library on Friday 2 May. 

Join us on Saturday 26 April, for an author talk with Joanne Austen Brown. 

Joanne is a recent Glen Innes resident and we look forward to hearing about her writing. 

To book in for this session, please contact the library 0267302600.

The Library will be holding our annual Easter Storytelling session, Wednesday 9 April 2025. 

Join us at 10.30 for a special storytelling with an Easter Egg Hunt and a special guest.

Rosemary was born in Glen Innes, the daughter of Hope Scherf and the famous ace fighter pilot Squadron Leader Charles Curnow Scherf. Her maternal  grandfather, Herb O’Hara, was the local vet while her father’s people owned large properties between Glen Innes and Emmaville.

Before her father’s untimely death in a car accident, Rosemary lived at Big Ben, Emmaville, but later moved to Glen Innes where she attended the Glen Innes High School. Graduating with a Masters degree in French Literature from the University of New England, Rosemary spent her career as Head of Department in various schools throughout NSW, Qld and Hong Kong

Her novel published in  2022  brings two biographies together: the early life, achievements and mysterious death of her ill-fated father and the plight of the daughter, dispossessed from the family estate and obliged to grow up in relative poverty as a ward of Legacy. It is not a simple narrative of events but follows the development of two tortured minds trying to navigate the brutal reality of their existence in a small- minded community.

 In the daughter’s life-long search for understanding and forgiveness lies the glimmer of hope that ultimately outshines the tragic events of the novel

The Library is trialling a library movie night, once a month.

The first one will be a screening of The Rocky Horrow Picture Show, Thursday 23 January 2025 @ 6.30 pm. 

Light refreshments will be provided, or feel free to bring your tea with you. 

For more information please contact the Library on 02 67302600.

All Library branches will be closed from 1 pm Friday, 20 December 2024, Glen Innes will re-open at 10 am, Monday 5 January 2025.

Deepwater branch will re-open at 10 am, Wednesday 8 January 2025

Emmaville branch will re-open at 10 am Friday 10 January 2025.

Glencoe should be open during this time period, except for Public Holiday's. 

The Digital Library is always available!

The Golden Oldies movie for June is National Velvet.

Join us, Thursday 20 June at 10 am.

Glencoe Branch Library has re-opened with our new contractor, Yolanda. 

The opening hours are weekdays, 9.30 - 11.30 am.

Australian Celtic Festival Performer - Live @ the Library

Glen Innes Severn Council’s International Women’s Day event is being held at the Glen Innes Severn Learning Centre, Friday 8 March, 6 – 8 pm and is showcasing Local Women. 

There will be artists, groups, and small business and entertainment.

Come and see how many amazing local women are in Glen Innes and how many things there are being produced by them.

Light refreshments will be provided, please RSVP to the Library on 0267302600.

Check out some of the FREE events the youth in our community will have available these School Holidays

The Library will close at 5 pm Friday 22 December 2023 and re-open at 10 am Thursday 4 January 2024. The Library Team would like to wish everyone a safe and happy festive season. 

Our School Holiday Program is available for bookings.

Home Alone - Thursday 21 December 2023 @ 10 am 

Elemental - Tuesday 11 January 2024 @ 10 am

Lego show challenge - Tuesday 16 January 2024 @ 10.30 am

Felt Art Painting - Thursday 18 January 2024 @10 am

Bush Kids First Aid - Thursday 18 January 2024 @1.30 pm

Movie, 'Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken' at Deepwater @ 10.30 am & Emmaville @ 2 pm, Thursday 18 January 2024

Tie Dye - Tuesday 23 January 2024 @ 10 am

Hotel Transformania - Thursday 25 Janaury 2024 @ 10 am

Spaces are limited and bookings are essential, if a session is full, please put names on the waiting list

The Library presents author Patsy Kemp, Tuesday October 31, at 2 pm. Come and join us for this inspiring talk.

Come and join us Wednesday 24 October, at 10.30 am as we celebrate Grandparents with our Tiny Tot's preschool storytelling. 

We're hosting author Louise Park at the Library on Thursday 14 September 2023 at 6.00 pm. Louise will be talking about her book, '7 steps to get your child reading'.

This talk is aimed at parents who would benefit from this assistance with helping their children to read.

Louise is a popular Australian author who has spoken nationally and internationally at conferences, writers' and readers' festivals, public libraries and school events about writing, publishing, the power of reading and writing, and anxiety in children. She also runs staff development days and writing workshops for adults and children.

This event is thanks to Glen Innes Public School and Glen Innes High School.

Places are limited so please RSVP to the Library on 0267302600 

The Library offers programs for preschool and school aged children. 

Tiny Tot's storytelling is a preschool aged program with rhymes, songs, stories and activities held every Wednesday at 10.30 am. 

Lego Club is a school aged program held every Tuesday at 3.30 pm. 

All Library programs are FREE. Bookings for Tiny Tots and Lego Club are not necessary. 

Tiny Tots Preschool Storytelling is for children aged 0 - 5 years. 

Come and join us every Wednesday Morning at 10.30 am for songs, stories and craft. 

We have been advised that there will be a scheduled power outage, Thursday 6 April, from approximately 9 am - 2 pm. 

We will be open for loans and returns but will have no phones, internet or computer access.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. 

'Embrace Equity' International Women's Day 2023

International Women's Day 2023. Save the date as this event will be showcasing our local inspiring women as speakers and entertainers.

Bookings essential - please use this link - https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/international-womens-day-tickets-536620876487?fbclid=IwAR1TlPR-hZzMlA5vpSI7wuPT9pAF-27wdkDnzK5S91B1RPyfa9Ek3gVtxPk

Join us on Wednesday 7 December at 10.30 am for this year's Santa Storytelling session, open for pre-school aged children.

Bookings essential - https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/santa-visit-at-the-library-tickets-463956736087

Join us on Thursday 15 December at 11 am as we celebrate Jane Austen Day with a reading the Jane Austen Letters and a screening of Sense and Sensibility. 

Refreshments will be provided, contact the Library to book a spot 02 67302600

Join us in the Library Thursday 24 November at 6 pm to hear Lee and Andrew Child in conversation with Tim Ayeliffe discussing their latest book 'No Plan B'. 

This will be streamed at the Library and is courtesy of BAD Sydney Crime Writer's Festival. 

Contact the Library on 02 67302600 to book a spot.

Wrap with Love are holding their first 'Knit In'  on Wednesday 12 October, 10 am - 4 pm. 

Winter in the West with Writers on the Road
20–24 August
 

Glen Innes - 22 August @ 5.30 pm.

Byron Writers Festival is taking its regional touring program Writers on the Road out west this winter, to Dorrigo, Armidale, Glen Innes, Tenterfield and Kyogle. Gather around the literary fire with acclaimed authors Jane Caro, Nigel Featherstone, Mirandi Riwoe and Australian Poetry Slam Champion Huda Fadlelmawla. They hit the road in the week leading up to the annual Byron Writers Festival.

It may be cold outside, but we are burning up with a passion for storytelling and poetry, all tall tales and true.

 “Sharing our stories has held the northern NSW community together through some pretty tough times over the past two years,” said Zoe Pollock, Artistic Director at Byron Writers Festival, “Writers on the Road is a wonderful opportunity for readers in western towns to meet and hear from authors appearing at the Byron Writers Festival. The program offers people in the regions a taste of the festival experience. This year there is something for everyone including lovers of fiction, poetry and big ideas.”

Writers on the Road events are free and open to the public, thanks to Byron Writers Festival and Create NSW, and bookings are essential

Bookings ca be made at https://www.trybooking.com/CAUWF

More information available https://byronwritersfestival.com/wotr/

Every Thursday in June, we will be broadcasting International Authors courtesy of BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival. 

2 June: Adrian McKinty in conversation with Tim Ayliffe
9 June: Janet Evanovich in conversation with Sue Turnbull
16 June: Harlan Coben in conversation with Michael Duffy
23 June: Don Winslow in conversation with Michael Brissenden
30 June: Mick Herron in conversation with Kate Evans

Please contact the Library on 0267302600 to book 

Join us at the Library for International Women's Day 2022 on Friday 11 March, 6 - 8 pm.

Listen to inspiring local women speakers - Kelly Foran (CEO Friendly Faces Helping Hands Foundation), Zaylie and Nicole Hyde (Sweetie Pie's Bake Shop) and Cassandra Hill (Mr & Mrs Hill Lighting), tell their stories.

Light refreshment and entertainment on the night.

Make your bookings on the below link:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/international-womens-day-2022-tickets-261516712527?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb 

The Library is excited to announce the launch of our new Library App.  

The App will allow library users to access their Library through our App, on a device, anywhere. 

To access the app, please go to either Google Playstore or Apple App store and search Glen Innes Library and download.  

NSW Public Library's Association Author Talk with Matt Murphy will be held Wednesday September 15, 6.30 - 7.30 pm.

Matt will be in conversation with Eric Dodson from Lane Cove City Library, discussing his book Rum: a distilled history of Colonial Australia. 

Tickets available here

Did your child receive an entry in our Children's Book Week writing competition from school or us?

We'd love to see them, please take a photo or scan of them and inbox them to us, email them to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or drop them in the blue returns bin at the front of the library.

Join us Thursday 10 June at 6.30 pm for this free author talk. RSVP's essential. Contact the Library on 0267302600

We are pleased to announce that Lego Club willl start again on Tuesday 16 February at 3.30pm.

Lego Club is a free activity for school aged children.

Numbers will be limited to allow us to continue to comply with current Covid-19 restrictions. For more information, please contact the Library on 0267302600.

The Library has a subscription to Indyreads through the State Library of NSW. To access a wide range of eaudio and ebooks, follow this link, select our Library, enter your Member Number (which is located on the back of your library card) and enter your password (which is your date of birth in this format ########). If you require any assistance, please contact the Library on 0267302600 and one of our staff will assist you. 

oin Alex and Kate for today's Online School Holiday Activity

Join Miranda and Alex this morning as they make a traditional Indonesian Dessert, 'Es Campur'

Join Alex and Jacob for today's Online School Holiday Activity - Origami

All of the activities that we are posting for these activities are contained in our FREE Activity Packs, available from the Library. 

Welcome to our first ever Online School Holiday Activity.

Join Alex and Kate this morning as they show you how to 'Reverse Tie Dye'.

Directions on how to do this and all of our Online School Holiday Activities are included in our Activity Packs which are available from the Library.

It would be an excellent time to try our e-Audio and e-Books subscriptions such as Borrow Box Glen Innes Borrowbox
Library staff can be contacted to assist you with the connection on 6730 2600.

This week for Tiny Tot's Storytelling, join Alex in the Library as she reads The Man With Messy Hair written by Pamela Allen and published by Penguin Australia.

We have a special ‘bonus’ storytelling video today, celebrating our Mum’s. Today, Alex and Piper are reading the story in the Library. Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mum’s. Alex is reading “Mummy’s Suitcase” by Pip Jones, illustrated by Laura Hughes and published by Faber & Faber.

The Glen Innes Severn Public & TAFE Library Team is proud to announce the launch of its new website.  The new website is focussed on connecting with the local communities within the shire as well as reaching out to the broader communities to improve access to library resources.