by Katherine Dixson | Jan 30, 2017 | News
As you may know, we plan to add an extra dimension to the library environment by running a series of free exhibitions. The first of these will be from 1st to 27th February, featuring the amazing photographs of Steve Parkes. Exhibits will range from landscape to...
by Katherine Dixson | Jan 7, 2017 | News
What a week! Barely had we said goodbye to busy Christmas and New Year festivities than it was time to face up to the challenge of running a library. Months of planning, recruiting, training and shadowing were behind us and now it was time to go it alone …...
by Katherine Dixson | Jan 3, 2017 | News
Safe to say we more than survived our first day as a fully-fledged community library. When I turned up for my afternoon shift, the familiar territory had an atmosphere of excited anticipation about it. There were smiles of welcome behind the desk and a sprinkling of...
by Katherine Dixson | Nov 12, 2016 | Uncategorised
Today’s shadowing session gave me not only more practice in the general nuts and bolts of library volunteering – issuing, discharging, renewing, ordering and shelving books – but also an opportunity to influence the display. Creativity, here we...
by Katherine Dixson | Nov 12, 2016 | Uncategorised
Shhh … we have an important announcement to make! Things may have changed in modern libraries and members are now just as likely to grapple with information technology or attend a genealogy club as borrow a book, but one thing that remains the same is that...
