Warm Welcome Space 2023 Style

Most of you will remember the Warm Welcome Space we had last October-March, with a tea and coffee point in the far corner of the library (next to the sofa). It was quite a lot of extra work to keep up, wasted some resources and I don’t think we ever found any...

Cake Portions

Sally Long has done some sleuthing on portion sizes for round cakes as follows: Cake Pan Number of Servings 6-inch round 5-11 slices 8-inch round 12-16 slices 9-inch round 12-16 slices 9 x 13 sheet pan 15 large slices or 20 to 40 smaller servings 8 or 9-inch square...

Summer Closing

Everyone is asking whether we will close over the summer holidays. We didn’t close last year, but I don’t think so many people were going away on holiday last year. This year, people are travelling again, so it’s making filling shifts much more...
Holidays and Three Rings

Holidays and Three Rings

It’s the holiday season (which is great!) but it means that lots of you are away and shifts are harder to fill as a result. To help with planning, it would be useful if you could log in to update your availability on your Three Rings profile. To do this, on a...

Newspaper Deliveries

For some reason best known to themselves, Monros have started delivering the newspapers to the Book Return Box. If you can’t find themĀ  in the mail box, check the book return box. As a reminder, papers are delivered Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Air Conditioning/Heating System

Air Conditioning/Heating System

In this really hot weather, it’s nice to open the doors of the library to the open air. The last advice you had on this was that it was not allowed, due to causing problems with the heating/air conditioning. Since the system was serviced in April, we now know...