World Music in our libraries

We've just expanded our World Music Collection with a new range of CDs covering a wide range of music from Irish folk to Congolese Soukous; Brazilian hip-hop to Bollywood; yodelling to salsa.

The extended collection also includes The Rough Guide To The Music Of... series and Rough Guides to different styles of World Music. If you want to get a flavour of some of this music we have a selection loaded onto a listening post in the Wheatsheaf Library.

World Music Collection CDs are available in Castleton, Middleton, Norden and the Wheatsheaf libraries. When Heywood Library reopens next year it, too, will have CDs from this collection.

They are available for loan to anybody over the age of 14, costing 50p for a three-week loan (25p for Passport To Leisure card holders).

Pure Passion: Christina Jones

Castleton Library was the venue for a very successful "meet the author" event featuring novelist Christina Jones on Wednesday November 14th.

Many thanks to everyone who turned up to the event and joined in the question and answer session. Thanks also to Janice and Bev for making such a good job of all the arrangements.

Christina is currently at the top of a regional vote to find readers favourite romantic novelist, thanks to her latest book, ‘Love Potions.’ Her writing has been published in many magazines including ‘Take a Break’ and ‘Company’. She had her own monthly humour column in the Oxford Times for six years, and now broadcasts regularly on radio and television.

Christina’s appearance was part of ‘Pure Passion’, a promotion of 20 of the best contemporary romantic novels available to borrow from public libraries in the borough. You can vote for your favourite reads online and make your own recommendations.

Alternatively, you can complete a ‘Pure Passions’ postcard at any library. The region’s most popular will be announced in time for Valentine’s Day 2008.

Pure Passion: Christina Jones

Award-winning romantic comedy author Christina Jones is coming to Castleton Library on Wednesday 14th Nov as part of Time To Read's Pure Passion promotion.

She is currently leading the voting as the favourite romantic author with her latest novel ‘Love Potions.’ You can cast your vote online by clicking on the Pure Passion logo above.

Admission is free. Everyone is welcome!

"Pure Passion" titles in our libraries.

Castleton Library's new home a success

Castleton Library opened in its new home in Castleton Community Centre on 26th February. The new library has given us the opportunity to improve the way we display and feature our stock and has given us room to add another couple of PCs for access to the Internet.

In the first two months of operation, new borrowers went up 250% issues were up by 36% and issues to children up by 42%. Many thanks to all the staff at Castleton who did so much work to make this happe.

Why not pop in and have a look?