Library Update

Happy New Year from all of us at Narborough and Littlethorpe Community Library! We look forward to a year of continuing to provide our villages with plenty of reading material and opportunities to join in with the community.

If your New Year’s resolution is to read more this year, our library is the place to visit. At the end of December, we received a delivery of two boxes of brand new books! The selection includes crime fiction, contemporary fiction, and more. We have new books by James Patterson, Jilly Cooper, M J Alridge, and CJ Sansom, to name a few.

We have recently been displaying the books of a selected author of the month. For December, we chose the books of Lynda La Plante. For those unfamiliar with her work, she is a crime fiction writer who also wrote the highly rated BBC television series Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren.

Looking for recommendations? We have a catalogue called “Who Writes Like…” that you can use to look up your favorite authors and find similar books by other authors.

Or, you could try a title that our librarians loved last year. We recommend Kristin Hannah’s The Women, The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, and In Memoriam by Alice Winn. You can check where to find these books online at https://www.leicestershire.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/libraries.

A huge thank you to everyone who came to our Christmas Fayre last month! We had lovely crochet Christmas decorations for sale and others crafted from books, all made by our volunteers. We raised a great amount of money for the library, and we hope everyone got some nice gifts for friends, family, or themselves!

We also had a children’s lucky dip with great prizes and a Christmas coloring competition. Our favorite entries were given an advent calendar, kindly donated by the Co-op. They were put on display inside and outside the library, along with Christmas trees colored in by local nurseries, they looked fantastic.

Our librarians are facing a new challenge over the next few months. Leicestershire County Council has implemented a new system that we will use to process book loans, returns, etc. We will have a training session before our first shift using the new system in February, but it will still take some getting used to. It may be a while before we get back to providing the speedy service our patrons are accustomed to.

Please note the following information, which will also be available on our website (nandlclibrary.org). From January 3rd until February 17th, you will not be able to reserve or place a hold on a book. During the same time frame, you will not be able to renew books online. To renew a book, visit any library or call us at (0116 286305) and we can renew it for you. You will also not be able to print from our PCs between February 6th and 17th.

If you use Borrowbox, make sure you login before 5th February, at 7pm you will not be able to login again until February 17th. If you are logged in and do not log out, it will not log you out and you will be able to continue to use Borrowbox.

We apologise for the disruptions this will cause. but the new system will help us provide better service in the future.