80s Scavenger Hunt at Powerhouse Museum

Looking for something to do in the rest of Jan?

Grab your digital camera and friends and take the Powerhouse Musuem’s tribute to the 80s photo challenge!

The 80s digital camera scavenger hunt runs 9:30am to 4:00pm daily from the 4th to the 26th of January.

You can find the start point and list of challenges at 80s Photo Scavenger Hunt Central on the entry level of the Museum. Or you can check the list of challenges here

From there it’s up to you to make your way through Powerhouse 80s style!!

Some of the challenges include –
It’s raining Rubik’s Cubes at the museum
Moon walk with the moon walker in the Space exhbition
Help ET Phone home

You can also upload your photos to the Me and the Powerhouse Museum Flickr group make sure you tag your images with ‘80shunt‘ for a chance to win some great prizes!

For more information click here

Scott Westerfeld- Leviathan

Check out this clip for the new Scott Westerfeld novel Leviathan

The clip is amazing, and it looks like this new series is going to be a huge hit.

The Scott Westerfeld website is really awesome too, and there is heaps of interesting stuff for fans of his previous “Uglies” series as well.

Check the library catalogue to see which of his books are in at the moment!

Twitter Chat with Richelle Mead

For those of you anxiously awaiting the Australian Vampire Academy Tour with Richelle Mead, you’ll be happy to know that Penguin Books is kicking things off on Twitter Q&A with Richelle!

Here are all the details:
When: Monday 14th September
Time: 3.45pm AEST (45 mins)
Where: Go to: http://twitter.com/PenguinBooksAus

Enjoy

Do you Tweet?

Here is an amazingly exstensive list of YA authors who are on Twitter.
Everyone from Meg Cabot to Eoin Colfer to Australia’s own Margo Lanagan are there.

Let the battle begin!

Mosman Library is taking on the internet’s most popular search engine in a head to head competition to see who can best answer a range of common queries. Each day a new question will be posted and you can vote on who gives the best answer, a qualified Librarian or an internet search engine query. Who will reign supreme?

The first battle took place on Monday 25 May at 12:00pm. (High Noon)

So check it out and don’t forget to vote!