Poetry to smile about

There were lots of smiling faces at Littleborough Library's children's poetry workshop. The workshop was organised by members of Littleborough Poetry Group who encouraged the children to write about things that made them happy.

The children produced some great work. Shabana will be putting some of them up on display for everyone to enjoy.

Many thanks to everyone who helped make this a success.

Cinderella Competition

You could be the lucky winner of free tickets to see "Cinderella!"

18 winners of the Library Service's Christmas Colouring Competition will be presented with family tickets for an evening performance of the pantomime at the Gracie Fields Theatre on Thursday 3rd January 2008. Family tickets allow entry for up to two adults and two children.

Colouring Competition entry forms are available from any of our libraries.

Please note:

• The closing date for entry is Saturday 22nd December.


• Please make sure that you put your telephone number on the form so that we can get in touch with you!

Many thanks to Meredith Productions for the donation of the tickets.

Winning Reads

We've added this year's William Hill Sports Book of the Year longlist to our Web Catalogue. This year's winner is "Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years With Brian Clough" by Duncan Hamilton.

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Elsewhere in the Web Catalogue, we've updated the Quick Reads list and Authors of the Month.

Children In Need

Spotland Library raised £97 for Children In Need with a combination of competitions, fun and frolics and sales of works from the craft group that meets in the library.

Many thanks to all involved!

Wheatsheaf Library reopens

The Wheatsheaf Library reopened on schedule on Wednesday 28th November. Regular visitors will notice that as well as recarpeting all the floors of the library we have made substantial changes to the layout of the lending and reference floors. If you're not a regular visitor to the library we're more than happy for you to come in and have a look round. Customer feedback so far has been very positive — we welcome all customer comments, constructive criticism as well as praise, so please feel free to let us know what you think.

Many thanks to everybody who worked so hard to get everything ready on time and contributed ideas for improvements.