Category: Guest Articles
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Guest Article: Victoria Art Gallery at the Library – Connecting with Families Through Story Time
Victoria Art Gallery at the Library: Connecting with Families Through Story Time
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Staff Spotlight: Owen on Disability Pride Month
July is Disability Pride Month. We talk to Owen Pass, CS Library & Information Advisor at Midsomer Norton Library, Information and Advice Services about what it means to him.
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Community Memories of World War2
We collected together community and family memories of World War 2 for the 75th anniversary of VE Day. Below are some of our favourites.
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Summer Dreaming: Christy Kirkpatrick talks to leading sleep expert Professor Alice Gregory
Christy Kirkpatrick talks to leading sleep expert Professor Alice Gregory about how we can help our children drift into the land of nod. Both joined forces to write The Sleepy Pebble and Other Stories: Calming Tales to Read at Bedtime.
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Autism Awareness Week
This guest article is from Sarah Keelty, Teacher: Specialist Autism Support Service (SASS) at Fosseway School, as part of our Autism Awareness Week celebrations. Over 1 in 100 people in the UK are autistic. Even though autistic children and young people account for just over 1% of the school population, they make up 2.5 per…
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Mental Health conversations: NHS Talking Therapies Service
Local Talking Therapy service visited Bath Central Library during Mental Health Awareness Week in May. The service encourages visitors to open up about mental health and access support and resources if they need it. BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Talking Therapies is provided by Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) and supports…
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Annabelle Marx: Lets Talk About Libraries
If you’re reading this then I already know that you love a library, but do you love a library simply because you love books or is there more to it than that? When I was asked to write this post I started to look at what libraries meant to me and why it is that…
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David Cohen: When DH Lawrence Met Albert and The Lion
That meeting took place in Oldfield Park! To be more precise it was at Cedar Park residential home where library volunteer David Cohen and Cedar Park volunteer Heather Voutt provided the latest of their afternoon literary entertainments for the residents. David has written this Guest Article to share his experience. “Piano” by DH Lawrence and “Albert…
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Staff Spotlight: Alice on Autism
We spoke to Alice, one of our library colleagues, about her experience with Autism. “It’s 08:59am and my heartbeat has increased. The doors welcoming the customers into the library are due to open in one minute. I have no idea what to expect, who will I serve today? What kinds of questions will they ask…
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Kate Hall, Director of Bath Arts Collective
BAC is a community interest company, so after we have paid our costs the money is reinvested into the organisation to go towards our outreach and community work. Between the three of us we have put on over 2,500 events in Bath so using that experience we have created an arts organisation where we can…