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THORNBURY LIBRARY 1. Summer Holiday Reading Challenge for
youngsters ‘Team Read’ The 2008 Summer Reading Challenge takes a sporting theme to encourage children to get active and get reading. All events listed below are free BUT please ask for a ticket in advance. Games Galore Wed 30 July 10.30-12.00 Ready steady go Wed 6 August 10.30-12.00 Keep your eye on the ball Wed 13 August 10.30-12.00 Going for gold Wed 20 August 10.30-12.00 In addition we are running our usual Read 6 books over the summer holidays to get a certificate and medal and lots more prizes! The Challenge starts on Saturday 19 July. Come along to the library on the morning of that day and join. (Please note you can join any time after this date). 2. Thornbury Library links up with Four
Towns & Vale Link Community Transport We are looking into the possibility of bringing housebound people directly to the Library by forming a partnership with Four Towns & Vale Link Community Transport. This is still very much in the early planning stages and anyone interested in using this service would need a Diamond Travel Card. We can help you obtain one of these and you can also nominate a friend/helper to travel with you who could also travel for free. If you are housebound and would be interested in using this service then please contact Thornbury Library on 01454 868006 or get a friend/neighbour to ask on your behalf. We also currently operate a housebound service using friendly volunteers who deliver library books to housebound people in their own homes? If you would like to use this service then please once again contact Thornbury Library on 01454 868006.
Funding from the Commenting on the
increase Cllr Heather Goddard, Executive Councillor for Communities said
“This is a small step in the right direction, through opening later it
will enable young people and people who work during the day greater access to
the service” Our new
opening hours will be:
Monday 9.30 - 5.30 Tuesday 9.30 - 5.30
Wednesday 9.30 - 7.00 Thursday CLOSED Friday 9.30 - 7.00
Saturday 9.30 - 5.00
We have just introduced a new Premium
DVD service. This includes the very latest DVDs which can be
hired for £3.00 per week. Please note these DVDs cannot be renewed or
reserved. February titles include: Rush hour 3, Knocked up, Bring it on
–in it to win it, The Kingdom
A final
list of recommended books, this time from Thornbury Golf Reading Group. Cloud atlas by
David Mitchell The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink Night watch
by Sarah Waters To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee Purple hibiscus
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Brick Lane
by Monica Ali Girl with a pearl earring by Tracy Chevalier The lovely bones
Alice Sebold All the detective agency series by Alexander
McCall Smith All the books by Anita Shreve
We hold a
weekly story time on Monday afternoons from 2.15pm-2.45pm and a monthly rhyme
time for younger children on the last Monday of each month also from
2.15pm-2.45pm. Pre-school children and their parents and carers are most
welcome to attend these free activities. We also
hold regular holiday activities. Contact the library for details.
If you enjoy
reading but are housebound and unable to get to the library then our friendly
home library service volunteers can bring books to you in your own home. Just
give the library a ring or ask a relative or friend to contact us on your
behalf. We currently have a vacancy to join our
small team of volunteers. Travel expenses are paid. Please contact the
library for details. For more
information on any of the above items please give the library a ring on our
new number 01454 868 006 (24 hour renewal line 08450 020 777) or visit our
web-site on www.southglos.gov.uk/libraries. |
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