There is a national promotion in Wales for libraries during the first 2 weeks on November which has very boringly been called Libraries Fortnight. The theme is supposed to be sport related to tie into the cultural Olympiad which is always a bit tricky, so we have been stretching the 'sport' to being any active sort of pastime.
We had a planning meeting about it this afternoon, and we are getting an Indian Dance company as the main event - which if we can find any new borrowers with an Indian ethnic background will tick an Equalities box as well. There are going to be guided walks from some of the libraries ending back at the library for refreshments which will give us time to try to get people to join.
We have joined the geocaching website and will have geocaches hidden in each library.
We are hoping to invite local fencing and/or rhythmic gymnastics, tai chi groups to demonstrate in a library.
Llantwit is having a pony and a donkey visiting to join the library, courtesy of Nic whose friend Chloe is providing both animals. The people who come can go into a draw to win a free riding lesson at the local riding school.
We do get involved in some odd things. We then have to try to get people interested in joining the library by putting out books, advertising on line resources etc while we have people actually in the buildings.
2 comments:
Sounds great fun. Are the pony and donkey becoming library members? You might start a dangerous rush of quadrupeds without opposable thumbs clamouring for membership
Yes, the animals are joining - though Nic is doing a test box load at the weekend to make sure the donkey wants to come
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