Patients at Whitchurch Hospital now have the chance to relive some great memories thanks to the hard work of our volunteers.
A new Memory Corner has been set up in the Day Room at the hospital that features a range of old items, such as books, pictures and tins and other household items, most of which have been kindly donated by the local community.
You may have seen in the news in the last few days that Google has launched a new tool called 'My Activity' and if you have a Google account you can take a look at it. Basically it's a history come timeline tool that gathers together all of your activity online that Google can see.
Following Britain’s decision to leave the EU, right now in terms of copyright, it is unclear about what this will mean for us, our member organisations and UK users of copyright works through library, archive and information services.
Shropshire Libraries, working with Ignition CIC and Scrappies, has successfully bid to Arts Council England to run a summer creative arts programme for 11-14 year olds.
The programme, called “Picture This”, is offering a fabulous opportunity for young people to take part in two day workshops in the larger libraries throughout Shropshire during the summer break.
Shropshire Libraries is joining in an annual campaign to raise awareness about health information available to everyone in the UK, in the first full week of July 2016.
Libraries will use their Health Zones and displays to highlight their health and well-being information and resources about a range of health issues, during a week-long information campaign.
Healthwatch, NHS Future Fit and People2People will be running drop in sessions in Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Market Drayton, Bridgnorth, Whitchurch and Ludlow libraries which will benefit the public and staff by raising awareness of the resources that are available to them. For more information about these sessions please follow the link to https://new.shropshire.gov.uk/libraries/library-events/.
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Mersey Care NHS Trust have saved the historic Carnegie building at the former Walton Library and transformed it into the state-of-the-art ‘Life Rooms Walton’, a new centre for learning, recovery, health and wellbeing.
The stunning new centre has retained the historic exterior while the interior has been extensively refurbished into a state-of-the-art centre which will revolutionise the way people recover from and manage their mental health. It will also serve the wider community of Walton with a variety of new and exciting services that challenges stigma and promotes positive mental health and wellbeing.
Leading mental health trust Mersey Care have also retained some of the popular library services for the local community at the much-loved building on Evered Avenue, off Rice Lane, Walton, which was opened in 1911, with the £8,000 cost being paid by Scottish-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
The building has become available as part of Liverpool City Council’s reduction in library services and Michael Crilly, Mersey Care’s Director of Social Inclusion and Participation, said: “People have been scared they’d lose their library so it’s good to be able to reassure them that some of those services will be retained, including an electronic ordering service for books that are not in stock.”