Ever what goes on backstage with our Special Services Team? They're the people who provide the services for people with special needs, as well as the Doorstep Library Service and the Mobile Library.Albert Shark RN joined them for a day to find out. Check out the pictures here.
In touch... is the free quarterly newsletter that the Doorstep Library Service (formerly the Housebound Library Service) delivers to its customers to help them keep in touch with the Library Service and with each other.In touch... includes stories, jokes, anecdotes, poems and book reviews contributed by customers of the Doorstep Library Service. It also includes anecdotes and autobiographical notes contributed by the staff in the Special Services Team.Summer's edition, which is just being delivered, includes: - an admission by Les the Mobile Library Driver/Assistant that he enjoys going to Old Trafford to watch football;
- some poems celebrating being of a certain age;
- a reader's childhood memories; and
- a version of Sharon's narrowboat holiday that somehow doesn't mention Bailey's Irish Cream!
Autumn's issue will include more staff biographies; Milnrow ladies' poetry; book reviews; and Margaret's Borneo adventure.For more information about the Doorstep Service for housebound people, please contact:Doorstep Library ServiceWheatsheaf LibraryBaillie Street, Rochdale OL16 1JZTel: 01706 924917
