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NEWSPAPER DELIVERY
We have newspapers (The Times and The Guardian) delivered every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. The papers come from Munros (in Temple Road) and should be delivered by the time you arrive at the library. It's a bit random where they put the papers - sometimes it's the...
Library Desk Tasks
Turn on computer and log in. When computer is ready, launch Google Chrome. Check Mailbox and Book Returns Box for newspapers (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday) and put newspapers out on their sticks with a reference only sticker from the library desk...
Summer Fun Festival
Hi everyone! Cricklewood Library will be taking part in the Summer Fun Festival reading challenge organised by Brent Libraries. The reading challenge is aimed at 4 - 12 year olds and the themes this year are fiery dragons, smelly pirates, Lego challenges and...
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 difficult. To help us...
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 desktop...
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 them in the mail box, check the book return box. As a reminder, papers are delivered Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Instructions to ‘Take inventory’ on Tinycat
From the TinyCat Admin page, go to LibraryThing, and under 'Cataloging' click on 'Your books'. From the drop down menu next to 'Covers', choose the 'Take inventory option': 3. Once the 'Take inventory' option has been selected, it will look like this: 4. Go through...
NEW FOOTFALL COUNTER
From Saturday 1 July (the first day of Quarter 3 2023), we are moving to using a new format footfall counter. This is it FOOTFALL COUNTER. I have printed 100 copies. When they run out, you can print more by finding the file on the hard drive here:...
Library Reading Events Calendar
The suggested reading events for the year can be found below. They have been compiled from a list prepared by Sally Long, events suggested from the UN list of observances: https://www.un.org/en/observances/list-days-weeks, and reading events from the National Literacy...