New Parks Library Opens Tuesday

See Teresa Delaney, the new Senior Community Librarian and Kerrie Noon, the Volunteer and Skills Development worker talk about the new library, their roles and opportunities for local people to get involved in the new Library in New Parks. The library opens on Tuesday 16th March.

New Parks Library Centre is a £1.5 million Big [...]

Short Break Fostering

Shirley Barnes, of Leicester City Council’s Fostering and Adoption Team, has been promoting the Short Break Scheme at the Central Lending Library in Belvoir Street. Short Break hopes to encourage people to get involved in fostering a disabled child for short periods.
This gives parents or carers the chance to have [...]

Disabled Children and Young Peoples Art Show Launch

Wednesday March 3rd saw the launch of The Crafternoon Tea Art Exhibition at Central Lending Library in Belvoir Street.
The exhibition features the work of disabled children and young people involved in the Crafternoon Tea Club and runs until Wednesday March 17. It was arranged in a partnership between the team delivering Leicester [...]

Councils Should Be Free To Close Libraries

Article from Daily Telegraph:
“The Government believes that the spread of the internet and other social changes may mean that councils should be free to close libraries.
Under 50-year-old laws, local councils currently have a legal obligation to provide comprehensive library services. ”
For further reading of article – Daily Telegraph website

One Central Library Consultation

Editor: The ‘One Central Library’ consultation is taking place from 1st-13th February.
Please ‘have your say’ by popping into either the Central Lending Library on Belvoir Street or the Learning & Information Library on Bishop Street, to collect your form.
You can also take part by going online: Leicester City Council

Good books are closer than you think

If you love to read good books, enjoy listening to CDs and watching DVDs but you are too far away from a static library, why not wait for the Mobile Library Service to come to a road near you?

There are six mobile libraries travelling to communities across the whole of Leicestershire, especially to rural areas, [...]

Empower, Inform, Enrich – modernisation review of public libraries

Editor: I got emailed a link to this website yesterday. Thought it a useful exercise to take part in if you have any interest in public libraries.
“On 1 December 2009 Margaret Hodge launched a two month consultation seeking the views of a wide range of people on the future of public libraries.
The public library service [...]

What’s in your local Phone Box?

Editor: What a great idea!
“A traditional red phone box has been recycled into one of the country’s smallest lending libraries – stocking 100 books.
Villagers from Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset can use the library around the clock, selecting books, DVDs and CDs.
Users simply stock it with a book they have read, swapping it for one they have [...]

Health and Wellbeing in the community

People needing to lower their blood pressure or wanting to know the difference between good and bad carbohydrates can now seek help at their local library.
Leicestershire library services are running a pilot scheme with NHS Community Health Services at Coalville, Melton and Oadby libraries which will support Health & Wellbeing services in the community.
In those [...]

Lord Mayor Visits Library

The Lord Mayor Cllr Roger Blackmore visited the Central Lending Library today. He was accompanied by the Lady Mayoress, who took the time to meet the two volunteer Editors of Senior Eye – the Community Media Hub’s news agency for older people.
The ‘Full of Life’ event was a celebration day for older people and many [...]

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