Peoples Republic of South Devon

Library busy-ness

July 23rd, 2008

Creative Commons photo by Guldfisken

posted by Cptn

Devon County Council has been so busy with libraries that you wouldn’t have thought that last year they were trying to close them (under the auspices of greater choice, of course),

Apparently some 13,000 new readers have joined libraries in just the first three months of the Join Your Library campaign, which is part of the National Year of Reading. The latest figures say there were 339 new members in April, 2075 in May and 982 in June. Making a grand total on the PRSD steam powered abacus of 3396. So we don’t know where the 13,000 figure comes from - maybe those bookworms aren’t mathematically minded.

Also, who knew you could get plastic bags from your biblioteque - well you used to be able to. The Book Bag for Life campaign, which is celebrating a year of activity on August 1, has sold 7,224 jute book bags in its first year. The news on the street is that the bags can be used to carry things other than books too (thanks Liz Poulter, senior waste manager for Devon County Council).

And books will be set free at this year’s Kongomana event for young people. Some 250 books are being released into the wild through the BookCrossing project.

They will be distributed at the Kongomana Festival site at Bicton on Friday 25 July. Kongomana is held by the Devon County Council Youth Service, and is three days of activities for young people including sports, a battle of the bands, DJ workshops and arts and crafts.

Everyone taking part in the BookCrossing will have the chance to win an iPod. A unique number from one of the books will be posted on the URDevon website for young people (is that ‘you are’ or ‘your’, or possibly ‘our’? We know we’re not the target market, but dodgy maths now funny branding… but shucks, we’re being so cantankerous maybe we should sniff a UKIP manifesto to bring us round to our senses).

The winner can claim their prize by checking the URDevon website.

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