Last crates

Would the last one out please turn off the lights!

The books arrive

The final movement of crates from the leisure centre started today, a week ahead of schedule. Almost all had been moved by 5pm. There is just one lorry load of books to move. By lunch time tomorrow all 76000 books and other items whill have been moved from the leisure centre to join the 9800 items already moved from the reserve stock.

As well as delivering the crates, McKeown are also shelving the books and doing a fine job of it thanks to pre-planning. Each crate is labeled with a bay and shelf number. We have a floor plan indicating the shelf numbering system if anyone gets lost or confused.

Large Print

Most of the large print and talking books have now been shelved.

Barry library

This is what the old library looks like without furniture, shelving or books. It is even more obvious now that there were no windows in the room originally built as a bowls hall.

The rest of the crates will be collected next week. They'll have to be taken down the steps from the fire exit door because the lift cannot be trusted.

Yvonne & Pat

NVQ success

Despite all the work at the county library there is still time to make progress in other areas of the service. We've launched a new mobile library and mobile routes in the last few months, we've run a Face 2 Face programme with visiting authors. And today, six staff have achieve their Information and Library Services NVQ awards. Seen above are Dene, Rachel, Phil, Bloss, Julie and Chris with Lynne, the assessor, holding the flowers.