Thwarted!

Here's how Fate can play hob with the best laid plans of library events...

Justine at Wardle Library arranged for some firemen to come to the library to give a talk about fire safety and a tour of a fire engine. She was warned beforehand that it's a working engine so there's always the danger of an emergency call-out but it should be OK...

• The engine was late coming to the library: they were on their way well in good time when they got a call-out to an emergency (it zoomed past Zillah, one of our Community Librarians, as she was driving in from the Wheatsheaf Library).


• Next time they came they got as far as the top of Birch Road, within sight of the library, when they got another call-out and had to turn round and rush off.


• The third time they managed to park the engine in the car park and unload the goodies and fire safety information before they had to rush off to yet another emergency.

Obviously one of those days!

The children who came to the event got some fire brigade goodies, a pile of stories from Zillah, and a wave from the departing firemen. All of which is pretty neat, but not as much fun as getting to have a close look at a fire engine, so Justine's going to try and reschedule the event some time when there's not so many bonfires and fireworks and stuff.

Thanks to everyone who turned up and participated in the event. And thanks to the firemen for trying their best, we appreciate they're a busy emergency service and we're grateful for their help with events.

(Besides, it gives Justine the opportunity to chat up some firemen! )

Authors of the Month

We've just updated the "Authors of the Month" feature on our Web Catalogue. This is a list of the authors featured in some of our libraries, click on any entry in the list and you'll see which of their books with got in our libraries. If you then click on any particular title you'll see which libraries have copies and whether or not any are available.

If you're a member of our libraries and have your barcode and PIN to hand you can reserve a copy to be picked up at your nearest convenient library. This is a free service to our customers. If you don't have a PIN, next time you call into the library please ask for one to be set up for you.

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Not all of our libraries run "Author of the Month" features. Some prefer to run features celebrating particular genres or subject areas. Others prefer to run features that cut across genres and collections, including both fiction and non-fiction. These last can be particularly difficult to turn into searches that can be build into the Catalogue, the Love Stories list in "Themed Reads" being one of the few examples we've done so far. (As its name suggests, it's also the easiest!) Every so often we'll include one of these wider-ranging features in the Blog o'Reading.

What Makes You Happy

Littleborough Poetry Group is having a workshop for children called "What Makes You Happy" at Littleborough Library from 2.30pm — 3.30pm on Monday 29th October.

The workshop's suitable for children aged 7 or over.

If you're interested, please ring the library — (01706) 378219 — to reserve a place.

Heywood and Wheatsheaf Libraries — temporary closures

The Wheatsheaf Library will be closed for re-carpeting from Wednesday 7th November 2007 for approximately 3 weeks.

Books and other items on loan can be returned to the Special Services unit which is situated opposite the main Library entrance in the Wheatsheaf Centre.

Heywood Library will be closed from Monday 12th November 2007 for approximately six months for extensive refurbishment works.

Some of the stock from Heywood Library, notably Best sellers and Graphic Novels, are being temporarily transferred to Darnhill Library, which will have a temporary extension to its opening hours.:

Darnhill Library opening hours from 12th November 2007:

Monday	9.30-1	2-7.30pm
Tuesday	9.30-1	2-5.30pm
Wednesday	9.30-12.30pm
Thursday	9.30-1	2-5.30pm
Friday	9.30-1	2-5.30pm
Saturday	9.30-1	2-4pm

Your custom is still welcome!

Items issued at Heywood and the Wheatsheaf in the run up to the closures have extended loan periods so that they are not due back until the libraries are expected to re-open. Fines are not incurred on days when libraries are closed.

Borrowers from Heywood and the Wheatsheaf Libraries are welcome in all libraries in the Borough. Your barcoded library card lets you borrow or reserve items from any of our libraries.

We apologise to our customers for any inconvenience.

Masquerade!

Half term week
Monday 29th October to Saturday 3rd November

Make a mask at your local library

What’s available?
Here’s a clue!
Witch pumpkin the cat make the wolf owl with?

Call in any time during usual library hours