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Libraries week 2018

KEATS COMMUNITY LIBRARY

"Keats Community Library is so loved by its community that nearly 7 years ago, we banded together to take it over from the local Council. Since then we have flourished.

We have

• Opened our beautiful listed 1930's building without fail for 42 hours over 6 days a week
• Over 50  volunteers, many of whom have been with us from the beginning,
• A stock of 25,000 books of which 50% have been replaced.
• Trained 4 apprentices at our expense.
• Provided the only public place in a large area where you can rent DVDs or print from the internet
• Offered a range of public events for children and adults, many featuring celebrities, all of whom perform without charge
• Provided library facilities to several local primary schools.
• Lent books to children and adults in equal numbers
• Kept solvent without any council support.."

Steven Bobasch

 

ICKNIELD HIGH SCHOOL

"We’re proud of our LRC at Icknield School in Luton which opened in 2015. We are open from 8am – 5pm each school day, and host many Accelerated Reader classes, as well as issuing about 100 books each day. The photo shows Librarian Mrs Claire McCabe adding some new books to stock on the Heritage System."

Alan Bullimore, Assistant Librarian

BICTON COLLEGE

"I'm proud of my library because our staff work hard to give our staff and learners at College a good experience. We have recently revamped the Learning Centre Library at Duchy College – Stoke Climsland in Cornwall with some bright furniture and some better lighting.

The Learning Centre Library at Duchy College Stoke Climsland is a special library and place to be as we are a land-based College in Cornwall and support our students and staff with their information and study support need. The bright furniture and shelving displays make it a great place to help students prepare for their futures in jobs, apprenticeships and further study.

I have included some photos of our staff having some fun before Libraries Week with our own Book Face Competition."

Sim Taylor, Learning Resources Manager (East) 

LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

"I work in a health library at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. There are two hospital sites, Chorley and Preston, and there is a library based at each. We offer a wide variety of resources, training and services for our users and offer quiet, study and stress-free library spaces.

Our library is a special place as we get such a variety of users from medical students, nurses, doctors and hospital volunteers; many of whom work in high pressured situations. We are proud of our library service for always putting the wellbeing of our users first. We celebrate our users by hosting healthy open days for them to drop in and discover what we do. We run lots of activities, competitions and events for our users to take part in. We have a health and wellbeing room located in our library at Chorley, open 24/7 for users. We run a pop-up library service for users who are unable to get away from the wards to the library by taking a box of books over to them. We hold monthly ‘wellbeing Wednesdays’ for our users in order to encourage them to take some time for themselves over lunchtime. Also, we run a yearly campaign for reading over summer to encourage users to read our fiction and wellbeing collection. "

Sinead English, Library Assistant 

 

STOCKTON RIVERSIDE COLLEGE

"I’m proud of my library because we constantly strive to provide the highest quality service for students and staff who access our resources. We have been voted outstanding as a department for three years running as we always go the extra mile to help and support people.

Our library supports students to be the best they can be by providing dedicated areas for different learners to study in depending on their individual needs. These include a higher education room, silent study rooms, a wireless learning zone and collaboration booths for group work. We loan laptops, iPads and other specialist equipment for students to use so they always have the resources they need to study effectively.

As a team we provide training on how to use Athens to access online journals and e-books, support with using the College’s Virtual Learning Environment and even offer IT support. We have an excellent provision for Teesside University students who are based at our campus and have copies of all the text resources from their reading lists. We offer guidance to these students regarding academic writing, critical thinking and Harvard Referencing.

Social Media plays a big part in what we do in the library, we advertise new books to students through their course Facebook groups, advertise events and promote Equality and Diversity. To make finding useful resources as easy as possible for students we have set-up reading lists on Heritage using the group code feature and we have even gone as far as separating this into modules.

We quickly respond to requests from students and staff when they require new purchases and equipment and do our best to provide these. We aim to make the library a useful place with staff who are always willing to go above and beyond to help and if we cannot help then we will always point students in the right direction."

‘The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who will get me a book I have not read’ – Abraham Lincoln.

Claire Powell, Learning Resource Centre Assistant 

NORTHAMPTON COLLEGE

"The Library runs a series of activities for students with learning difficulties and disabilities, the flagship initiative within this project is the Reading Ahead Challenge. We are the only FE College who have won a Gold Award for 7 years running and have had over 1500 students complete the Challenge over 11 years. Our work with these students was acknowledged nationally as we were shortlisted at the TES Awards 2017/18.

This year we won first place for our Maths Magician scheme for CoLRiC’s Best Practice Award and In 2017 we were given second place for our Word Detective scheme, both original and innovative 20 week numeracy and literacy schemes developed by Library Assistants in support of the Government’s agenda to improve Literacy and Numeracy in the UK. 639 students participated in these this year.

We celebrate our students’ achievements by holding 3 Library Awards Ceremonies in May each year and these were attended by over 200 students, staff and parents. Special guests attending included local Mayors and authors Sue Bentley and Mark Robson and the College Principal and Vice-Principal. Certificates were presented to students winning our Poetry, Short Story, Art and photography competitions alongside the Reading Ahead, Word Detective, Maths Magician and the brand new DigiCAP (learning to use IT) schemes. Certificates were also presented to Work Experience students (we accommodate 430 hours) and those who had completed their Information and Study Skills sessions. "

Lynn Goodman, Librarian (Booth Lane Library) 

 

BERKHAMSTED SCHOOL

"We’re extremely proud of our Berkhamsted School libraries because we believe we are the heart of our school community.

Although our Castle Memorial Library is 94 years old (we celebrated our birthday 2 weeks ago!) we are hip and happening! Why not check us out on Twitter (oh yes, we know how to use Twitter, at our age!) to see what we get up to? https://twitter.com/BerkoLibrary

Discover our brand new Year 7 Reading Scheme ‘Bookopoly’ – roll the dice and take a chance to win instant prizes as you complete books from different genres around the board! If you are struggling to find something to read – do not fear! Check out our ‘Litflix Display’ – if you enjoyed the film adaptation, you’ll love the book!

Explore the list of books banned in different countries as we celebrated ‘Banned Book Week’ and the right to express ideas and the freedom to read. (Has one of your favourite books made the banned list?!)

Journey across Europe with us as we celebrated European Day of Languages and we learnt about some of the different cultures and traditions of our European neighbours. Our soft seating areas in both libraries made for a perfect Danish Hygge corner as students could curl up with a good book and be present in the moment alongside twinkly fairy lights and cosy cushions and throws.

There’s always something going on so keep your eyes peeled!

One of our main aims is to make pupils’ research abilities more effective, smarten up their search queries and help them to be more digital savvy! We are lucky enough to have an array of electronic resources to dive into and use their smart searchers – Mr Boole would be proud! Not to mention our hot-desk articles delivered to our teachers! The moment they land on our desk, we are on the case to supply teachers with anything relevant for their teaching – from Lincoln and slavery to medieval medicine! Whatever your age, whatever your interests – whether you need help choosing your next book, your homework, support with your EPQ or you just want to read the daily newspaper, there really is something for everyone at Berkhamsted School Libraries. "

Bethany Downing, Library Assistant 

 

LIVING PAINTINGS

""Here at Living Paintings we provide a free library service for blind and partially sighted people of all ages. Our unique tactile, touch to see books provide a wonderful experience that brings stories to life. We have children’s picture books where the illustrations are raised images so that blind children can touch and feel the illustrations as they listen to the stories. Every book comes with an audio guide that not only tells the story but also describes each picture in detail. For our adult members we provide a wonderful selection of albums that cover diverse topics such as modern art, architecture, garden design, nature, music and tours of popular British cities. Our teacher resource packs also support national curriculum subjects supporting blind and partially sighted children at school to learn in the same way as their peers.

We are so proud of our library because we provide a completely free postal service for blind and partially sighted people ensuring that our resources can reach anyone across the whole of the UK. We issue no fines for overdue or lost books, and our service is provided solely because of the generous support of donors. Our volunteers are the heart of our library, they keep it running on a day to day basis dealing with all incoming and outgoing loans. There are also lots of things that go on behind the scenes from the painting of new books, to the repairs carried out on existing books, to registering new library members. We now have over 15,000 library beneficiaries who are all able to enjoy the resources we offer due to the generosity of our volunteers and funders. The feedback we receive from our library members is what makes it all worthwhile. To be able to change the lives of blind and partially sighted children and adults by bringing books to life is something we are immensely proud of; and so this is why we think our library is a very special place indeed.

The photos show two of our volunteers processing the incoming and outgoing loans, our library shelves, and some examples of a couple of our books and the unique touch to see raised images."

Lisa Hockey, Library Manager 

 

HMP FORD

HMP Ford's library, managed by Linda Collins, made the 10-strong shortlist for The Bookseller Library of the Year 2018. Read why at https://www.thebookseller.com/insight/library-year-shortlist-spotlight-827631. 

 

 

ST MARY'S SCHOOL, CALNE

"Here is a photo of our fiction library. It used to be a chapel, and is now a great place to curl up on a beanbag with a good book, as we often find girls doing just that, visible only by their feet sticking out between the shelves!" 

Dr Penny James and Mrs Kelly Fuller 

 

HILLS ROAD SIXTH FORM COLLEGE

Change a habit of a lifetime' by R. S. Hudson

The lovely library and librarians await up the stairs
In the high vaults of the college where there are no lairs
Just a quietness you rarely find anywhere today.
It’s quite possibly the quietest place around 
Apart from the white noise sound of computers 
Or the whispering voices of excited students.
We value our quietude without an attitude
And keep an open mind and an open book.
There are shelves to browse, study spaces to
Crowd and a pod or two on which to perch
And lurch over at one of our highbrow journals
But most of all there’s the chance to 
Change your day and borrow a book at your 
Leisure or at least come and have a look. 

Rebecca Hudson (2nd from right in photograph below)

 

Cliff College

"The room which now houses the main library at Cliff College, Derbyshire, used to be the college dining room. I attach two photos of the over-mantel. Where my book trolley is now, there would have been a roaring fire, years ago!

The hand-written minutes from the Cliff College Committee, 1927, reveal that:

Special gifts included an additional gift of oak panelling for the dining hall from Mr. R. J. Soper, Barnsley; a gift of £50 from the Southport convention committee to the Principal, which had been expended in putting a carved oak overmantel of Leonardo de Vinci’s “Last Supper” in the dining hall of the college;  

(and then the same notes go on to list 4 tons of potatoes and a couple of other things which were donated to the college that year!)

I am grateful to my colleagues in the archives, Mr. Clive Taylor and Mr. Russ Houghton for providing the historical info to accompany the photos."

Pamela Johnson, Librarian

 

ASHTON SIXTH FORM COLLEGe

"I am proud of my library because everyday I get to champion information. The library as an institution works to ensure people can access, understand, and evaluate information. I am immensely proud to be part of a global institution that celebrates knowledge and provides free access to information.."

Amy Ward, Learning Facilitator

 

SHERWOOD FOREST HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

"We’re proud of our library because we are a very unusual acute trust hospital library – we serve six local CCG teams and the Nottinghamshire County Public Health team as well as providing services to all categories of staff within our own trust. As well as all of the traditional library services such as loanable books and resources, and access to a wide variety of electronic resources and journals, we also pride ourselves on the services that we provide to parents, carers and patients. These services include a dementia collection of resources and books for reminiscence work and activities with dementia patients, as well as books to support their carers’ and relatives. Similarly, we hold a Child Health Collection which supports several different clinics within the hospital on Down Syndrome, Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome and ADHD. Again, these collections are borrowable by patients and their parents/carers.

We also work with colleagues in the Nottinghamshire County Council libraries to promote collaboration and cross-sector working."

Sarah Stones, Acting Library & Knowledge Service Manager

 

Bridgwater and Taunton College

"I am proud of the diverse and thought provoking range of books that our staff and students who attend the Bridgwater & Taunton book clubs choose to read on a monthly basis. #BWC_Library

Bridgwater & Taunton College Libraries provide FE and HE resources across three campus sites in Somerset."

Becky Worthington, Learning Resources Assistant

We also heard from one of their Foundation students, Liam Flower (pictured):

"Before I started my work experience at Cannington LRC, I thought that libraries were boring and all about books. Now I’ve realised that you don’t have to read a book if you go to the library, you can listen to some music, or just relax and chill if you want to. Mind you, if you want to study hard and focus on your work, the library is also a good place to go to!

I really enjoy my work experience in the LRC, there is always something different to do. I didn’t realise there was so much involved with working in a library. I particularly enjoy serving customers and helping with displays.
That is why the library is special to me."

 

Bolton College

"I’m proud of my library because………..the learners LOVE US!"

Janina Kaye, Learning Resources Centre Manager

 

Bridgend College

"A few pictures of our new Libraries/Success Centres to celebrate Libraries Week"

Emma Jones, Success Centre Co-ordinator

 

One College

"We have a lot of positive feedback from our students, which we will be sharing on our Instagram account. I have included the photos in the attachment. We are also extremely proud because our staff satisfaction is 100% based on our most recent survey. Our LRC is a beautiful room at the centre of a very modern building.

We are celebrating Libraries Week at One with a large display in the LRC. We deliver fully inclusive library services to over 2000 students and 224 staff where A levels, BTecs and Entry Level courses are provided for students of all abilities.

The LRC at One is in the centre of the college. We organise events such as Tales and Teapots, Reading Ahead and book groups to encourage reading for pleasure. To help students with their studies we visit classes to inform them about online resources that are available. We are currently focusing on Black History Month, Library Week and Mental Health Day. The LRC is a safe space for students with ‘Mood boosting books’ and ‘Books on Prescription’ available to borrow."

Kim Carr, LRC Administrator

 

North East Religious Learning Resources Centre

"I am proud of our library because it has a dedicated and knowledgeable staff team.  We are happy to support our members who often show their appreciation for our resources and the service we offer.  We are a specialist centre on two sites in the North East of England and if any other Heritage Bods are passing they would be very welcome to pop in and say Hello!"

Karenza Passmore, Director

 

Trent College

"Here are a few pictures to celebrate our beautiful Devonshire Library; a display for Libraries Week, a snapshot into the library. Plus the library bench which is a particular favourite feature of our library. This was painted by some of our very talented Art scholars. I think they did a brilliant job!"

Claire Scothern MA, Head of Library Services

 

Swindon College

"Our Learning and Development Centre is a fantastic space for our Students and Staff to work, where we are all one big family.

Note the large stained glass window on the wall. This window used to formally hang in our Old Victorian Swindon Technical College dating back to 1895 in memory of 45 Students that died in World War One, and was rescued when the building fell into disrepair and re hung in our new LDC."

Sandra Clayfield, Learning & Development Centre Resource Co-ordinator

 

Diocese of Guildford

"We may be small, but we like to think we are beautiful! This is the Resource Centre for the Diocese of Guildford – we provide books and resources for the local churches and schools in our Diocese to help them in their work.

This might be as simple as a bible story picture book for a Sunday school to a series of study guides to be used in a conference. We also provide non-book resources such as bubble tubes, puppets, smoke machines and parachutes to name but a few. (First photo)

We also manage the Theological Library at Guildford Cathedral so we are kept busy but are well used by those studying at the University of Surrey nearby or local clergy/curates.(second photo)."

Steff Shepherd, Assistant Children and Families’ Ministries Adviser (Special Needs) and Resource Centre Manager

 

South Devon College Library

"We get to flex our creative muscles!  Promoting reading for pleasure is a really important aspect of our service, so we relish the opportunity to come up with innovative and imaginative displays to entice our learners.  My colleague Becky Lovell has created this fantastic Halloween display – complete with fluttering bats every time the door is opened"

Alexandra Barton, eLearning & Learning Resources Centre Deputy Manager

 

Cornwall College - St Austell

"We are proud of our library because these are the results from our learner survey (attached infographics) – over 80% think it is a good place to study, that we develop their skills for the future and that our support has helped them to do better on their course and over 90% agree that we are friendly & approachable and that they are happy with the Learning Centre @CornwallCollege St Austell."

Kay F. Ecclestone, Learning Resources Manager