Gary Powell and Taufaaso Filise of the Cardiff Blues visited the library today as part of the month long Something to Shout About campaign across libraries in Wales. The library was packed with children on their half term holiday and also with a good number of parents and olther adults waiting to see which rugby players would show up. The crowd were not disappointed and it took the best part of an hour for the players to sign autographs and answer questions before they could get a look at the building and speak to staff. We'll add some professional photos of the players to the blog when we received them.
The library has now been open 7 weeks and during this time we've attracted almost 50,000 visitors and enroled 1300 new library members. We issued 21,801 books in our first month and this works out as over 350 more per day than the same period last year. Staff don't need statistics to tell them we've been very busy and I think we can rightly claim the building and the service to be a hit.
As well as the Blues we also had Zoolabs in the library today with their hissing coackroaches and other less than cuddly creatures. This was one of many activities running in the County library and across all our libraries in the Vale during half term.
