Community & Business
5 February, 2026
What's On at The GIL Library Hub
All the news from the The GIL Library Hub
Designs From Your Mind (DYFM) LEGO® Club
The world is a wild and wacky place full of amazing people, events and statistics and one place where you can find all of that information is in the Guinness World Records 2026!
The Designs From Your Mind (DYFM) builders found lots of crazy facts in the new copy of the records, and made creations based on their favourite facts.
These builds included skateboarding cats, flying pigs, vegetable orchestras, and people fitting into canoes.
Tech Club
To celebrate the end of the school holidays, and the return of Tech Club for 2026, our first session for the year was a fun robotics session, exploring the robots that the library owns and practising our coding and instructional skills.
Tech Clubbers discovered the features of the library’s new Sphero Bolt+ robots, an upgrade from our ageing Sphero Spark robots. With new coding features, displays and greater response to commands, the Sphero Bolt+ are a hit with our patrons!
Other coders used our LEGO® Spike sets to create their own robots, using block code to program the motors and sensors so that it would drive. We’re very excited about the technology we are going to learn this year!
Little STEAM Saturday
Little STEAM is back for Term one! We are returning to the fundamentals of Science, with an aim of having everyone think and behave like a scientist as we explore and make discoveries about the world around us.
In last week’s session we introduced what it takes to be a good ‘discoverer’ or scientist and started by being observant and asking lots of questions.
We learned how to collect items and record what we observe about us by putting items into groups and made discoveries based on similarities. There will be more scientific discoveries to come during Little STEAM and children aged three-to-seven are welcome to join us!
Rhyme Time
We are looking forward to inviting babies, toddlers and their families to Rhyme Time this week.
Celebrating the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, babies and toddlers and their carers’ are invited for a morning of songs, rhymes and simple stories.
The session encourages children to listen, move, and participate while caregivers join in alongside them.
Repetition, rhythm, and actions help develop phonological awareness, vocabulary, and social skills.
Rhyme Time also supports bonding between children and caregivers, promotes confidence in group settings, and introduces a fun, playful foundation for future reading and communication.
Books and Blocks
Join us next week for Books and Blocks, a playful and engaging early learning program for children aged zero-to-five, designed to spark young imaginations and support essential developmental skills through stories and hands-on play!
The session encourages children to explore books together and then use blocks to build, stack, and create.
This supports early literacy, problem-solving, fine and gross motor skills, and spatial awareness.
Caregivers are encouraged to join in, model language, and talk about what children are building, helping to extend vocabulary and communication skills.
The session also promotes creativity, confidence, and positive social interaction through cooperative play.
Friday Flicks
This week, adults are invited to enjoy a free movie screening on the big screen at the GIL Library Hub.
We’ll be showing a recently released, well-reviewed film suitable for adult audiences, rated G or PG.
Feel free to bring along your favourite snacks, or pop into one of Gilgandra’s great cafés beforehand to pick up a coffee or treat to enjoy during the movie.
Friday Arts and Crafts
Our adult arts and crafts session will return next week. Chat with others and enjoy a simple craft activity, free of charge.
Visit one of Gilgandra’s great cafés beforehand and bring your morning tea.
Please contact the library to RSVP for this event as numbers are limited.
Library Book Club
The Library Book Club returns next week, to discuss “Her death was also water” by Allen C. Jones, and “The Cuckoo’s Cry” by Caroline Overington.
If you are interested in being part of a book club, please contact us. Please see the council advertisement for details.
Summer Reading Challenge: The Big Summer Read Wraps Up!
The reading period for the Big Summer Read has now come to an end, and it’s time to return your family’s reading logs and collect your rewards!
Open to children and young people aged zero–to-18 years, the challenge simply asked participants to read for ten days over summer and tick off each day on their reading log. Completed reading logs can be returned to the library by Monday, February 9, or dropped into the book return chute.
