Library News

In case you didn’t notice, it is now winter and the best time of the year to snuggle up with a book in front of the fire with a glass of refreshment or a cup of coffee, depending on the time of day. 

End of financial year looms slowly up, oh so slowly, but 1 July all the book orders will be going in – Yay.  Meanwhile we will console ourselves with sorting out our current books and sprucing them up, especially the old New Zealand ones.
 
Our biography section is heaving with books, so many that under the shelves is now full as well.  Please ask if you can’t reach them and we will happily bring them out for you. 

Winter school holidays are also running towards us at full pelt.  The Winter Warmers reading programme is on again, Olympic theme once again, beginning at the end of June.  Enrol anytime from now on.  We are also running the Hell Pizza Challenge for the children.  This runs through the year with the prize of a pizza once seven books have been read.   Our first child has just completed their wheel. 

Libraries are getting a boost from Stephen Fry who is promoting libraries for the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.  His quote is “Libraries are where minds flourish and grow.  They are like a kind of water supply.  Without libraries a country can become a kind of desert.”  He has certainly got that right.  Come and see the gorgeous Mr Fry on our wall alongside some of my newer shoes. 

I have been talking about my collection of shoes to some of our lovely customers at Probus and the Women’s Institute and Anglican ladies among others.  If anyone would like me to come along and make a fool of myself then please let me know.  It’s always a lot of fun.  That’s enough wittering from me.  See you soon in our lovely warm, dry library.  Shirley
 
Shirley Nightingale