League of Legends Exhibition

Banner display from the National Museum of Australia offers a snapshot of Rugby League History through text panels and images exploring some of the games greatest moments.
The display is on show at the Port Macquarie Library from Friday 18th July to Monday 11th August.
To add some local flavour the library will also be displaying memorabilia provided [...]

New look (and sound) to the meeting room at Port Macquarie

The acoustics at  Port Macquarie Library Meeting Room have been greatly improved by the installation of new soundproofing panels.  The room has been plagued by sound problems since the library opened. These problems have now been resolved by the installation of the panels.

New Traffic Lights

Traffic lights are being currently installed on the corner of Gordon and Grant Streets. We apologise for any inconvenience this work may be causing.  This intersection has been identified as being dangerous by the RTA and the new traffic lights should make it easier for cars to turn into Grant Street and for pedestrians to cross Gordon Street. Grant [...]

School Holiday Activities….

With the July school holidays fast approaching, you may be looking for something to keep the children or grandchildren amused. Port Macquarie-Hastings Library is offering a number of activities to suit most age groups including poetry and creative writing workshops as part of the FreshArt Festival. Click here to download the full schedule.
Kempsey Shire Libraries [...]

A million items issued – but who is counting

On the very last day of the financial year the number of items issued by the the Mid North Coast Library Service passed the million mark for the year. This was the first time that we have achieved this. To celebrate this fact two lucky borrowers from Port Macquarie and Kempsey Libraries were presented with [...]

Message from Scotland!

Port Macquarie-Hastings library’s absentee manager has become a Highland wanderer and while we couldn’t get him to visit any libraries (something about him being on holidays?) he did visit Leakey’s Secondhand Bookshop in Inverness – It is advertised to be Scotland’s largest secondhand book shop, and is situated in an old church building in Inverness. [...]

New fiction

Check out the board as you enter the Port library for covers and reviews of new fiction titles we’ve received over the last couple of months. Reviews are also available from Laurieton and Wauchope, or just click here. To reserve a copy of a book, drop in to see us, phone or visit the library [...]

Staff Picks

When looking for something to read who better to ask than a librarian?! So one of our creative staff decided that she would put together a list of reviews and ideas from all of our library staff, which became a quarterly project. We’d love to have your input, whether a review or a comment here [...]

Very successful book launch & biggest morning tea

Wow! What a turn out for our launch and a big thank you to the Friends of PMHL who hosted the Mad Hatter’s Morning Tea and raised over $300.00 for the Cancer Council. There were a number of fabulous “Mad” hats and the winner was Robyn Van Loggerenberg with her “HATchery” hat. Don’t forget [...]

New items launch at Port Macquarie Library

Port Macquarie Library will be launching a wide range of new materials on Wednesday 21st May at 10.30 a.m. Be first in line for new fiction, non fiction DVDs and much much more.  Come early and join in the Biggest Morning Tea in support of cancer research