Dear members and supporters of Wilson House,

We have a few little updates about what we’re getting up to in the next few months.

We are working on an entirely new borrowing system and website. While the existing site has served our members quite well, it is a bit of a nightmare to manage at the back-end! We need something that will scale well as we add more books, and as more members join; there are also lots of features we want to add that aren’t feasible to do with our existing system.

Truthfully, the existing system has been quite expensive, and the economics aren’t really there for us to keep running it in its current form. We have decided to stop running the existing site while we get the new system ready for launch.

We expect that the new site will be ready by Spring 2026.

In the meantime, Jemimah and I are focusing more of our attention on building community around books. We did a bit of this last year with public talks about works by C. S. Lewis and T. S. Eliot. This year, we are running a monthly reading group working through John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. Armidale locals are more than welcome to join!

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to all those who have encouraged and supported us in this first year of our activities as Wilson House Library Company. We are thankful for the many interested and supportive people who have borrowed books, donate books to the library, sign up for paid memberships and come to our occasional events. We’ve also learned quite a bit about how to run something like this!

God bless,

Sean & Jemimah Wilson

March 2026