Libraries - events
Yo ho ho!
Friday 10 October
10 October is National Bookstart Day, celebrating the work we do
to support very young readers and their families and to
encourage a life-long love of reading. This year's national theme
is "Pirates." To celebrate we are having a week-long programme of
pirate-themed events in our libraries.
Pirate Rhythm & Rhymes
Look out for under fives storytimes with a pirate theme:
- Monday 6 October Darnhill Library
10.30am - 11.30am
- Tuesday 7 October Smithybridge Library
10.00am - 11.00am
- Tuesday 7 October Langley Library 2.00pm
- 3.00pm
- Thursday 9 October
Belfield Library 2.00pm - 3.00pm
- Friday 10 October Balderstone
Library 10.00am - 11.00am
- Friday 10 October Smallbridge Library
10.30am - 11.30am
To celebrate both National Bookstart Day and National Poetry
Day, which is Thursday 9 October, Norden Library is having a Pirate
poem Competition. Children aged 11 and younger are invited to write
a poem about pirates and bring it into Norden Library. There will
be three lucky winners!
Were you ready for the Summer Reading
Challenge?
This year's Summer Reading Challenge for children — "Team
Read" — ran from July to September 2008. Hundreds
of children joined in, reading lots of books and collecting their
bronze, silver and gold medals along the way.
- Everybody who completed the Summer Reading Challenge will get a
certificate.
- Don't worry if you didn't complete the Challenge, the important
thing is that you had fun and enjoyed some great stories!
The Team Read web site
We launched this year's Summer Reading Challenge with two
library sessions for schools with special guest performers:
- Tom Palmer at the Wheatsheaf Library on Tuesday 17 June;
and
- Craig Bradley at Junction Community Library on Wednesday 18
June.
All primary schools in the Borough were invited to send
four Year 5 children to the events as "ambassadors." They enjoyed
quizzes or a performance poetry session and were
each given a Team Read pack to show to the rest of the
school.
Crafty holidays!
As an experiment we had craft and activity tables in
all our libraries throughout last summer's school holidays.
These proved to be so popular that we have decided to do this every
school holiday, with a different theme each week.
Rochdale Readers
The children's book club, Rochdale Readers, continues to add new
members. They have now set up a blog to celebrate the National Year
of Reading, including thoughts and poems on each month's theme.
Rochdale Readers meet once a month at the Wheatsheaf Library and
welcomes anyone between the ages of five and eleven.
Rochdale Readers blog
site
The Big Listen
The Big Listen Week began on Monday 19 November 2007. The theme
this year was health. The organisers wanted to know your views on
healthy living. Survey forms were circulated around our libraries
and we had an online survey on this page. Here are the results:
We are setting up a Featured Collection of
stock on a healthy-living theme aimed at teenagers and young
adults. Which of the following subject areas would you think would
be the most important and useful for us to include in this
collection?
- Depression and anxiety 25%
- Sex and relationships 20.8%
- Substance abuse 20.8%
- Alternative health 8.3%
- Coping with bullying 8.3%
- Diet and healthy eating 8.3%
- Coping with allergies 4.2%
- Exercise and activity 4.2%
Thanks to this response we are setting up a
couple of these collections covering the most requested topics.
We also added some items on these
topics to the new featured collections we set up earlier
this year (each of these collections have a variety of fiction and
non-fiction books aimed at particular age groups).
Healthy living for under-fives
Our under fives events included stories and activities on
healthy living themes.
Did you know that our regular Storytimes and
Rhythm and Rhyme sessions promote children's health and well-being
through social interaction and developing listening and
co-ordination skills?