Seniors

Seniors in the Southern Tablelands

Library Services for Seniors:

Southern Tablelands Regional Library offers a wide range of materials in a variety of formats, some that may be of particular interest to seniors are:

Large Print Books: This collection has both fiction and non-fiction books published using a larger than normal font for those with impaired vision or for those looking for an easier reading format.
Goulburn Library also has available Readers Digest magazine in large print format.
Audiobooks: The audiobook collection encompasses both CD and tape formats and fiction and non-fiction for people who like to listen as they work or drive or as an alternative to the printed book.

Home Library Service -- This is a free service provided for those people who, due to disability or illness, are unable to make their own selections at the library.

If you wish to join as a Home Library borrower or would like to help by delivering selections to Home Library Borrowers, please contact your local branch for more detail.

TumbleReadables is a collection of over 400 Large Print electronic books which allows you to read books online by simply clicking a button.

Internet for Seniors:

The Library offers regular Internet Training classes to help in finding your way around the Internet? Library staff will be presenting regular sessions on using STRL Online Services and Internet for everyday life. See News and Events section for further detail.

For a list of sites of interest to seniors follow this link Internet sites for Seniors

University of the Third Age:

U3A - the University of the Third Age - is an international movement that encourages retired people to take part in lifelong learning activities for pleasure. U3As allow people to study in a relaxed environment at low cost. There are no prior qualifications, no exams and no degrees awarded.

U3As are like universities in the original sense of the word - communities of people who come together to learn from one another. U3As are learning cooperatives of older people. By offering many educational, creative and leisure activities to their members, they encourage positive ageing.
U3As draw on the huge resource of skills and experience of people in their Third Age, which is sometimes called 'the age of active retirement'. It's the stage of life reached after the First Age of childhood and dependence, and the Second Age of working life and home making. For many the Third Age provides opportunities to spread their wings and do things they could only dream about when they had work and family responsibilities.
In any U3A community there are always some people willing to share their knowledge with others by acting as course leaders or tutors, or by assisting with administration. Quite often, members are leaders in some classes and learners in others.

U3A Goulburn Mulwaree

Dr. Brian Harlech-Jones ph. 02 48215927 mobile. 0415410008 or email

Rae Wellings ph. 02 4821 9027 or email

U3A Yass

13 Weemilah St, Yass 2582

(02) 62266222 or email

President: Jan Wilson

The group meets every Thursday from 10am-12pm in the Goodradigbee Centre, Rossi St., Yass.

The group has a major interest in Australian History and includes trips to visit many local towns.

U3A Southern Highlands Inc.

PO Box 421, Bowral 2576

(02) 9990 6650 - answering machine, please leave a message and you will be contacted or email

Visit U3A Southern Highlands website http://www.sohiu3a.org.au

Local Seniors Groups:

Goulburn Senior Activities Club Inc. meets in the McDermott Centre, Auburn Street Goulburn.

The group meets every Tuesday at 10 am, activities include a darts & carpet bowls morning, a quiz morning, a games morning and a sing-a-long morning.

The group also meets every second Friday at 3pm (Pension week) for either Housie or cards.

Subscription is $5.00 per year.

Contact: Beryl Prigg on 4821 4735 for more information.

Southern Region Community College is an independent, locally based, not-for-profit organisation, managed and supported by a local committee of volunteers offering vocational, computer, recreational, arts, crafts and health courses.

Enrolment Hotline 1300 655 296
Website: http://site.srcc.goulburn.net.au

updated 29/11/2007