We’ve just confirmed the reopening date for York Gardens Library and Community Centre as the 1st November. There’ll be a small event that evening to mark it’s reopening and any supporters of the library will be welcome to come along. Most importantly, from then on we hope that many people in the community will continue to support us by coming in to borrow books, use the community rooms, join in activities and sign up as volunteers.
If you’re interested in volunteering you can contact us now: yorkgardenslibrary@gmail.com
If you’d like to book a room to hire, you can call Hilary on 020 8871 8848. There are several rooms to hire: a 4 person interview room, three rooms with capacity of 50, and the large community hall (capacity up to 200) which has a kitchen facility. Charges have been revised and reduced to make them more affordable.
The library itself will continue to have activities running for children and adults and we have plans for some home-grown community activities, to meet the needs of local people. We currently have a questionnaire which you can fill out to tell us about the sorts of activities you’d like to see at York Gardens. If you would like to know more and provide feedback, email us at yorkgardenslibrary@gmail.com or contact us via Twitter @saveyglibrary
See you in November!
Comments on: "Preparing to reopen as the Big Society library" (2)
I really appreciate what people are doing to keep the library open and avaialble to the local community but I don’t feel I can participate as a volunteer. I feel aggrieved, as I am sure others do, that people have been sacked from their jobs as full time librarians as part of the enforced public spending cuts by this ConDem government. That in itself is an attack on the so-called ‘big society’. To expect ‘volunteers’ to fill up the lost jobs is an insult. It’s like replacing wage labour with slave labour.
Thanks for your comment. Many of us agree. Fortunately the librarians have been redeployed elsewhere in the Borough, but I’m sure there is a lot of uncertainty for them as well. We will be working closely with the remaining librarians.