Where's Wally?

 

To celebrate 25 years of Where's Wally books, Sandown Library will be holding a competition to find Wally. 5 small Wally's and 1 large one, will be hidden in the shops along Sandown High Street between Saturday 27th October & Saturday 3rd November.

Find them all and write them down and be in with a chance to win your own Wally goodies! Forms to enter the competition are availalable now at Sandown Library, or you can print out the form below (Just click on the image and then right click and select "save image as", then you will be ready to print the document). You must have a library card to enter this competition. However if you do not have one, you can sign up at the library.

Plenty of prizes available: The first correct entry wins the large Wally and a Where's Wally canvas bag with activity pack. Second correct entry wins a 2013 Wheres Wally calendar & a canvas bag / activity pack. Plus there are 23 more canvas bags/ activity packs to be won from a draw of all correct entries!

The Latest minutes from Friends of Sandown Library . . .

Friends of Sandown Library    Minutes of meeting held:    27th September 2012 at 6pm

Members Present
Donna                                Chair
Eileen                                Secretary
Laura                                 Press Officer
Louise                               Staff
Heather   

Friends Present
Wendy
Deborah
Diane

Agenda – Any business arising
To discuss updates for the next events
Any other business

1.    It was agreed that meetings would now be held quarterly. Next in January 2013. Any extraordinary meeting can be called however, with details posted online and in the library.
2.    Events;   The next event will be the Christmas Craft Fair on Saturday 1st December. Bookings have been taken already and FoSL would be involved only with the refreshments offered. Volunteers are needed for this, so that a Rota for the afternoon can be arranged. Please contact the FoSL Chair, Donna in the first instance. Advertising for this event has been arranged by Laura, but posters still need to be done. Raffle prizes are still needed please.
3.    Donna has suggested a ‘Storytelling for Adults’ ticketed event also in December. Details will follow.
4.    A Balloon Release event was also suggested for Christmas Eve. Donna will obtain quotes and other details will follow.
5.     Funds raised stand at £368.85. Naming the Dog raised £71.00 – a great success.
6.    It was agreed that Eileen would chase up the opening of a Bank Account at Barclays Bank subject to informing the Treasurer.
7.    Update on Library renovation:  Scaffolding will soon be in place so that the roof may be fixed. The room has been inspected and further works agreed by the Council. A finish date is not yet available.
8.    Further works to the Library are taking place: The layout of the main library area will be changed, with an automated check in desk and new staff workspace constructed. There will be some pink highlights in areas such as the new carpet and desk to brighten up the room. There will be new shelving installed – some will use empty space by the windows, and there may be a new (pink) sofa.  The old oak check in counters will be removed, but it was suggested that FoSL ask that these counters be preserved in some way and perhaps used to raise funds for the library. Ideas for the ‘Preserve the Counter’ project are welcome!
9.    The group was pleased to note that new technology is being used successfully at the library now.  For instance ‘Penfriend technology’ has arrived to aid partially sighted customers, and there is access to magazine subscriptions and educational courses available online through the main Library Service site.  Staff are able to offer further information about these services to library users.

The library will be closed from Saturday 22nd December – Wednesday 2nd January, reopening Thursday 3rd January.

The next meeting will be held on Thursday 31st January 2013 at 6pm.

Any other business or notifications regarding these Minutes should be made to the Secretary, Eileen Schaff.

New room!

So far Sandown Library and The Friends (FoSL) have raised an amazing £370 through sales of books, plants, hand-made cards and Janet's Name The Dog. Funds are intended to renovate the upstairs room at the Library to allow for extra space for community activities and other fun stuff.

 

 

 

As you can see from the picture, Sandown Library staff have been busy bumble bees, clearing the upstairs room. It has taken a while as they had to get a van in from library headquarters ... three times! But it should be finished this week.

Floss has a home!!

Friends of Sandown library would like to say congratulations to a very pleased little girl called Keira, who won the FOSL competition "Name The Dog"!

It took a long time for the correct name to be chosen, and we were beginning to think the dog would be a permanent fixture! HER name has finally been guessed. It was FLOSS. (A small clue there - Friends Of Sandown Library FOSL -- FLOS)

 

 

 

 

We have raised an incredible £71 just from this, so well done Janet for having the idea and donating the dog! And a big thank you to everyone who joined in and had a go.

Volunteers at Sandown Library . . .

Visitors to Sandown Library may have noticed some extra staff members over the summer holidays. We have four young volunteers helping children to join the Summer Reading Challenge.

The girls, Chelsea, Rhiannon, Annie and Roxie, guide the children through the four parts of the Reading Challenge, awarding free gifts along the way.

The girls have given up their time and in return have achieved experience working with children, which will help them in their future careers.

The summer holidays is our busiest time of year, with higher visitor enquiries and demand for internet access, and it's been a great help to have these enthusiastic helpers stationed at their desk, ready to answer all the childrens' enquiries and provide encouragement with their reading.

They even happily agreed to wear the lime-green T-shirts!

FRIENDS OF SANDOWN LIBRARY

FRIENDS OF SANDOWN LIBRARY

MINUTES OF MEETING

THURSDAY, AUGUST 2^ND 2012

Present : Heather, Ian, Jenny, Susan, Wendy

Apologies : Everyone else

As Ian was the only committee member present no decisions could be made and therefore we just had a general discussion about recent events and the current use of the library.

Jenny :

Jenny wished to thank Donna and Deborah for their invaluable organisation and help in the Horrible Science children’s event. It was a great success.

Also, thanks to Conrad and Donna for providing scones and biscuits for the very successful author visit.

Since the last meeting another £90 has been raised from donated book sales, Wendy’s plants and Janet’s dog (the correct name has still not been guessed!)

The library has used some of the money raised to purchase the complete set of Richard & Judy Summer Reads books. This collection has its own display in the library, and has been made non-reservable and part of a collection; therefore it cannot be removed from Sandown Library stock. Jenny & Louise are both very pleased to be able to use funds raised by FOSL to purchase books they would not otherwise get, and this has shown the success of the Friends Group so far.

The upstairs room that we would like to make use of has been half cleared, and the job will be completed in the next two weeks. The next stage is getting Mansells in to remove old pipes etc, and then decorating. Carpet cannot be fitted until the hole in the roof is fixed.

Heather :

Asked about the current state of the library with regard to stock, usage etc. Jenny showed the group records of issue figures (the number of books taken out) from the first eight months since the re-organisation. These show that out of the four libraries that have had hours reduced (SA, VE, FW & CO), Sandown has the most issue figures, more than double Cowes figures. All these branches have the same opening hours and staff hours.

New books are arriving weekly, but fiction books no longer remain at one branch. If they are returned to another council run library, they stay there. If they are returned to a community library they get returned to us. This system has replaced the old book rotation system. Non-fiction is still exchanged by branches e-mailing each other.

The community room is very well used, as is the library itself on days when it is closed to the public, for instance on Mondays three separate groups from IOW College will be using the library facilities both upstairs and the computers downstairs.

Donations :

We need more good quality books. The ones we don’t add to stock will be sold for FOSL.

Val Lee is selling hand-made cards on the counter, proceeds go to FOSL.

General Discussion:

The group suggested FOSL meetings could be reduced to quarterly, as if any member wishes to organise a fund-raising event they can talk to Jenny or Louise directly.

Heather suggested that at the annual meeting we could decide dates for the meetings of the next year in advance. Those present thought this was a good idea.

The next meeting will be Thursday, September 27^th at 6.00pm.

Up and coming event at Sandown Library

Don't Miss Out on the following events at Sandown Library . . . 

Tuesday 14th August

Coming to Sandown Library soon -- Beaches, Books & Bottles: Stories and activities for children aged 4 to 8. Tuesday 14th August 10.30am to 11.30am. This is a free event but tickets are required and under 5’s must be accompanied by an adult throughout.

 

Tuesday 21st August

Going for Gold -- Stories and activities for 4 to 8 year olds. Tuesday 21 st August 2.30pm to 3.45pm. This is a free event and there is no need to book. Under 5’s must be accompanied by an adult throughout. 

Friday 7th September

Meet Adrian Searle, author of ‘The Spy Beside the Sea’ and find out the true story of Dorothy O’Grady, Sandown’s infamous second world war spy. Friday 7th September 6.30pm. This is a free event but tickets are required.