The Library that comes to you!
If you are living in Westminster and find it difficult to get to a library because you are elderly, have a disability or long-term illness or are caring for someone, the home library service (HLS) can come to you.
04/12/2016
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Dress rehearsal Some Home Library Service members were the guests at a dress rehearsal at Church Street Library last week of Impro for Elders, before their actual performances this week (tonight and tomorrow!) at …
06/10/2016
Home library service readers enjoying our Silver Sunday event:
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From Summertime in Venice to Autumn in St John’s Wood A musical lunch was held at St John’s Wood Library on Silver Sunday for members of the Home Library Service, along with other local residents. From vinyl to digital: our resident vinyl expert…
22/08/2016
Withdrawal symptoms from the end of the Olympics? Why not request one of these books to get your daily fix and maybe even try some exercise in your own home!
15/08/2016
Looking for some juicy crime to get your teeth into on these long summer nights? New on our shelves, a little something for everyone!
26/07/2016
New advances in headphone technology, useful to remember if you have anyone who may find normal headsets are no longer working well when listening to audio books etc!
AfterShokz – New bone conduction headphones - Deafblind UK Originally designed for sports, the AfterShokz bone conduction headphones sit over your ears and touch your cheekbones to use bone conduction to hear music or videos, whilst still being able…
This short video highlights the importance of services like home libraries, befriending, Good gym and all the rest that work so hard to make life a little less lonely for our elderly.
08/06/2016
Our readers certainly enjoy their Shared Reading Group the second Monday of each month at St Johns Wood Library NW8
Libraries in care homes can improve residents’ mood and memory | Norman Miller Shared reading in groups reduces isolation and can transform the lives even of residents with dementia
18/05/2016
Humming in Harmony
“The power of music to integrate and cure… is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.”
– Oliver Sacks
23/04/2016
All ready for World Book Night tonight - happy to have our free copies of Ali Smith's new collection on hand in celebration of Public Libraries!
"A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize and the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Why are books so very powerful?
What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us?
What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us?
The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make.
Public libraries are places of joy, freedom, community and discovery - and right now they are under threat from funding cuts and widespread closures across the UK and further afield. With this brilliantly inventive collection, Ali Smith joins the campaign to save our public libraries and celebrate their true place in our culture and history."
Read more at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/288384/public-library-and-other-stories/ .99