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June 10, 2007
Metheringham Library News
Welcome to the Library page! I hope by now that the skies are blue and that we are all basking in the sunshine – unlike the thunderstorms and rain that typified the last half term week!
If you have received your June copy of County News you may have noticed an article about the proposed restructure of the Library service, and a questionnaire to complete asking for your views. All Libraries are to be included in this review and their opening hours and methods of staffing will be looked at. This is YOUR chance to have your say as to how you would like the Library service to be run. All Libraries (including Metheringham) are potentially as risk of closure so if you want to keep your local Library open, please let the decision makers know your views by completing the survey, either in the paper or online at www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/librariesconsultation. Your Library is an important community resource – use it or lose it!!
Lecture over! If you haven’t yet visited us you will be assured of a warm welcome and may well be surprised to learn of all that goes on within that small building! Our ever popular computer classes carry on apace – ask for details of when the next one is due to start at the counter. We are still hopeful of being able to run ECDL courses here, alongside the new E-Citizen course which is running at the moment, but have no more news as to when yet, unfortunately. Various mini taster sessions are being planned at the moment, ie Family History, general internet use, so if you have any ideas of what you would like, please let us know.
Storytimes continue right through the school holidays, being held on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, from 2.15 – 2.45. We now have a cd of songs, kindly provided by Bookstart, which is proving a very popular (if noisy!) addition to the session! These sessions are free and aimed at pre-school children, although it’s lovely to see our older storytimers again in the holidays!
Our renowned (and ever increasing!) Readers Group has hit the headlines again (and not for being the rowdiest group in the Star and Garter on a Weds evening!) with 2 of our members going on air, live!, to talk about a book! To link in with the Book Festival’s City Read book, Alice in Wonderland, our group was asked to read Radio Lincolnshire’s Book of the Month,
“The Looking Glass Wars” by Frank Beddor. This was an alternative version of Alice through the Looking Glass. We were told that a journalist from Radio Lincolnshire would come to our meeting and discuss the book, make notes etc. However, as always, they changed the goalposts AFTER we’d agreed and decided they wanted 2 people to go LIVE onto the radio to talk about it instead! As I seemed to be in the minority in actually liking the book, it was decided (with a lot of arm twisting and trying to invent reasons NOT to do it, from me!) that I should go on and say why I liked it, and Jayne Palmer gallantly volunteered (is that the right word Jayne?!) to state the case for the majority who hated it! To cut a long story short, we did ok and promoted Reading groups to the masses over the airwaves. A nerve wracking experience! You can read a review of the book in our Readers Group column. If you fancy joining us, we meet on the first Weds of the month at 7.30, usually in the Star and Garter pub. Pauline is at the Library until it closes at 7.00 so if you don’t fancy walking in on your own, come to the Library first.
We have a junior booksale promotion at the moment – fill a bag for a pound or all books 10p each. Get ready for those long summer days now and stock up on your reading!
Thanks for all your support
Pauline, Mel and Sue
Sue Miller
Community Outreach Officer
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