News from Metheringham Library Spring 2011

The Library Staff Awards took place on Tuesday 7 December and celebrated the hard work of libraries across Lincolnshire. The awards were held at the Cathedral Centre in Lincoln, a beautiful setting for this celebration. The awards this year represented a development on last year and focused on a spectrum of performance encompassing: Quality Standards, Customer Satisfaction as well as the more traditional indicators - interactions, issues and new members during 2009/10. There were 4 award categories this year and for each of these a District, Neighbourhood and Community Library winner. We were delighted to be awarded the People's Choice Award for a Community Library, so thank you to all of our customers who filled in survey forms and put positive comments. At first Mel was not impressed that we had got an award just as she retired but she was invited to the ceremony as well.

Lizzy Mason, the Fairy Queen Artist, who makes our beautiful displays, will be running a course for children from Tuesday 15 March to 5 April, 4pm - 5pm in the library. The four sessions will cost a total of £18 per child and Lizzy will be showing the children how to make Easter baskets, Easter cards, Springtime fairies and Easter bunny puppets.

We can now offer a new service, free access to e-Audio, which allows you to download and listen to over 600 audiobooks on your personal computer or portable media player. You can save up to 10 audiobooks to your PC or portable media player at a time. Once the 'checkout' period (3 weeks) for a title has expired, you will have the option of renewing that title if you wish. Files will need to be deleted from your PC once the final checkout period has elapsed. To access this service, go to the virtual library and log in with your library number and PIN to find out more. If you don't yet have a PIN, or indeed a library card, just call in at the library and we will be happy to help.
https://virtuallibrary.lincolnshire.gov.uk

Pauline Ventress