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Food Drive 2024-2025

Food Drive: give a little this festive season

Now, more than ever, vulnerable community members are feeling the effects of the cost of living crisis, and are in need of support to help them celebrate the festive season. In partnership with Helping Hands Mission Inc, Moonee Valley Libraries is welcoming donations of non-perishable food items for individuals and families in need. When you…

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Holiday Opening Hours

As the end of year approaches, we will be operating changed hours over the Christmas and New Year holiday break. Return chutes will remain open throughout this time, but no items will be due until the new year. As always you can renew and reserve items through the catalogue or library app, and access eBooks and eAudiobooks 24/7. Ascot…

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Say goodbye to overdue fines!

We’re closing the book on fines. Moonee Valley Libraries is thrilled to announce we will no longer be charging overdue fines for the late return of items. Many public libraries are successfully fine-free, and we are proud to join them. We know overdue fines sometimes get between you and our libraries, and so we are…

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Spooky Stories: winners announced

We would like to congratulate the winners of our inaugural Halloween writing competition, Spooky Stories. Lisa (6-10 age group) and Sarah (11-14 age group) were chosen as the winners by guest judge, author Anna Zobel. Thank you to all of our entrants. Anna’s overall comments reflect the talent of young writers in Moonee Valley: The…

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My Aged Care assistance

Do you know someone looking for help to understand or access aged care services? Many older people may be eligible for services such as personal care, domestic assistance and help with shopping. To access aged care services, people need to register for My Aged Care and apply for an assessment. Moonee Valley City Council’s Aged…

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Inter-library Loans

Service Update: inter-library loans

Good news! After a short hiatus, inter-library loans will be back across Victoria from Monday 1 May. You will again be able to request items from other library services in Victoria. In order to maintain the long-term viability of the program, we have made a few changes. We’ll make sure that we update this page…

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Ministerial visit to Flemington

On Wednesday 1 March, we welcomed the Honourable Melissa Horne, Minister for Local Government, and Sheena Watt, State Member for Northern Metropolitan Region, for an update on the Flemington Library refurbishment project. After a tour of the worksite and an overview from the project managers, the Minister, MP, and Mayor Cr Pierce Tyson spoke about…

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Multilingual Reference Group

Expressions of interest wanted! Moonee Valley City Council is seeking expressions of interest from the community to join a new Multilingual Reference Group. Help Council to better connect with different communities through communications and activities that are accessible, inclusive, and relevant to all – especially in regard to language. If you have a keen interest…

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Ascot Vale Library

Help us create your new Ascot Vale Library!

Have Your Say on the new Ascot Vale Library The Ascot Vale Library is about to get bigger and better and we need your help! We’ve designed a plan for the redeveloped library, now we need your ideas: View the proposed floorplans below and tell us what you think here: https://yoursay.mvcc.vic.gov.au/ascotvalelibrary Submit your feedback before…

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Winners announced – Strange Days

The inaugural Moonee Valley Libraries writing award launched this year, to the theme of Strange Days. We received 200 entries from writers all over Victoria. The judging panel read all entries anonymously and were highly impressed by the quality and creativity of the writing. A shortlist of 10 was passed on to our guest judge,…

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