Book clubs are a great way to share your love of books with friends.  The Mid North Coast Library Co-operative has a number of resources available to book clubs in our area. These include our Bookshare program (books sets available for loan to book clubs), reading lists & links to useful websites to help you start a group or make suitable book selections.

Our Bookshare program was launched in November 2010 and has grown dramatically in just 12 months - we now have over 40 sets of popular titles available for loan.

 What is Bookshare? Bookshare is a collection of popular books (in sets of 10) available for loan to book clubs.

How does it work?

• Register your book club at your local library

• Nominate a guarantor for the club & provide a list of club members contact details

• Your book club will be issued with a library membership card (5 week loan period)

• The card may be held at your home branch or shared among members

• To access the service book clubs are asked to donate a set of 10 copies of a pre-approved title to add to the Bookshare collection (books need to be in new or read once condition)

Sets include: 10 copies of title Discussion questions & notes Audio book or MP3 and DVD version if available

What titles are available?

To search for titles in the Bookshare collection on the library catalogue, use search term Book club sets

A full list of titles with descriptions is available at your local library or click here for a PDF list.

Also, be sure to keep the 2^nd Tuesday in November free for our annual celebration of book clubs, reading and sharing at Port Macquarie Library.

Friends of Port Macquarie Library are having a book review competition.  Click here to find out more information.