Category: Wenvoe Community Hub

 

 

The Wenvoe Community Library

Contact us on   029 2059 417

 

 

 

 

Have you always wanted to trace your roots and learn more about your ancestors? Wenvoe Community Library is holding weekly drop-in sessions on Tuesday mornings 10:30-12:30. These are for beginners and more experienced genealogical researchers who are willing to exchange tips, strategies, and resources with others in the group in researching their family history. On-line genealogical sources are Ancestry and FindmyPast and are available to the public for in-library use during regular library hours. The library has free Wi- Fi so you are encouraged to bring your laptops/ tablets to share your research with others. A librarian will usually be at hand to cover the basics of how to begin your research, what resources are available and the basic forms and programmes you can use in your family history project. If there is sufficient interest and expertise we can schedule specific topics to be examined in more depth. We would ask for a donation to the community library of £2.00 if you attend this event.

The Easter holiday looms so we are reminding parents that the library is open at its usual times for children to borrow books, DVDs. We are happy for younger children to come into the library and read as much as they want!

We continue to have a selection of books available for purchase from our Book Sales of last year. These have made a real contribution to our being able to keep the library viable.

Don't forget our EASTER RAFFLE which will be drawn on Easter Saturday! The raffle contains a variety of goodies for the Easter weekend and there are three prizes. The draw is planned to be at 1200 and will be a mystery village VIP. We will telephone the winners as soon as the draw is made. .

 

 

 

 

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The Wenvoe Community Library

Contact us on   029 2059 417

There's an excellent website at www.libraries.wales. Featured at the moment is the Wales-wide project to get every child registered at their local library, particularly in Year 4. You can also link through to the Digital Library at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, which is making a wide range of archive material available on-line; for example "Welsh Newspapers Online". You can search and access over 1,100,000 pages from nearly 120 newspaper publications generally up to 1910. This also includes newspaper content that has been digitised by The Welsh Experience of World War One project.

On the Vale of Glamorgan Libraries website are various tools including guides to the e-books you can borrow and a link to a service called "Who Writes Like"; type in the name of your favourite author and it'll throw up a list of authors whose work is considered comparable and should match your taste. We have a physical copy in our reference section.

We don't have any plans for a further Book Sale but are still selling such donated books as we have, many of which have only been read once. There are also some audiobooks and DVDs to buy or borrow.

The Vale of Glamorgan Council continues to develop the Local Development Plan (LDP) and there are “Further Matters Arising Changes” (FMACs). The FMACs consultation will run from Friday 17th February until 31st March 2017 and the documents to support this process are available for inspection in Wenvoe Community Library.

 

 

 

 

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The Wenvoe Community Library

Contact us on   029 2059 417

 

 

 

 

The days are getting longer  – which suggests two things in particular, it's time to rejuvenate the garden and time to plan the summer holiday. We have a wide selection of travel books in the library and can obtain guides for most countries from within the Welsh Library network. We have a good number of gardening books available, some seriously horticultural, others are written by "celebrities" from TV shows, with an emphasis upon garden design

We have a host of New Books in the library this month.

In the Children’s Section:-

Reading level 1 to 4 Ladybird Books:

“Topsy and Tim go to the Zoo”,

“The Princess and The Frog”,

“The Jungle Book”

 “Pinocchio”

“Diary of a Wimpy Kid” – The Last Straw and The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney

“Thorfinn the Nicest Viking” by David Macphail

“Y Gruffalo” by Julia Donaldson

There is a book about Ancient Egypt and one about Space which is a visual Encyclopedia.

For the Grown Ups:

The Chelsea Strangler (sounds scary) by Susanna Gregory

Two authors who just keep going: James Patterson/ “Woman of God” and Danielle Steel “The Mistress”;

“The Fairbairn Fortunes” by Una-Mary Parker

“The Gentle Sleep Solution” by Chireal Shallow

You will find a few others in our special Section “New Books” – opposite you when you first come in to the library.

And do you know your “Bonjour” from your “Hola”? Come and chat to Rafael and Eva, two British teens who go to a French school in Barcelona. They will be in our Community Library on Wednesday February 22nd from 1030 to 1130. (Back of the Community Centre, in the car park).

Come and join us for a warm welcome and a croissant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Wenvoe Community Library

Contact us on   029 2059 417

 

 

We will have been running the library for four months by the end of December and are very pleased with progress.

DID YOU KNOW?

Wenvoe library is a ‘Community library’ and is just behind the community centre, it can also be accessed from Wenvoe Close, off Walston Road.

 

It allows you to:

 Borrow DVDs;

 Comic books;

 A good selection of teenage books;

 A wide range of crime fiction – we have more James Patterson books in Wenvoe than anywhere else in the Vale;

 Some interesting novels e.g. we’ve had a copy of M. L. Stedman’s ‘the Light between Oceans’ since July 2013;

 Non-fiction and autobiographies;

 Children’s books (in English and Welsh) fiction and non-fiction;

 Look at a small reference section (including bound copies of What’s On for each year)

 

From a home computer you can:

 Renew any books you’ve borrowed online;

 Browse the Vale catalogue in the comfort of your own home;

 Reserve books you would like to borrow and they will be delivered to Wenvoe library for you to collect – we will ring you when they arrive.

 

If you don’t have a home computer you can use a library computer to do all of the above.

When, as happens, broadband is down, you could use a library computer to read your mail or bring your own computer in to take advantage of free Wifi.

Buy books – we have some good quality donated books for sale and some old library stock is also available for sale.

Green garden waste bags and food bags;

Copies of What’s On.

As a community library we have to find the funds to run the library (the Vale of Glamorgan supplies books, DVDs etc) and all money raised from sales helps.

All the staff are volunteers who are keen to keep the library open for the people of Wenvoe.

Come and see us – Our opening hours are in "What’s On "  ‘Daily What’s On Guide’ page 2

 

 

 

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We having been running the Library since the beginning of September and so far, so good! We survived a failure in the computer network which left us disconnected from the Vale of Glamorgan's systems and operating on paper records for a few days but it was all taken in our stride. As in previous months I'd like to appeal for more volunteers to join our band, it's interesting, rewarding, and sociable come and talk to us in the Library.

As the volunteers have become more familiar with the book stock they have started to apply a White Dot sticky label to mark "dusty" books, "dusty" being a librarians' term for a book which has sat unread on the shelves for more than two years or so. In some instances it is easily evident why a book hasn't been read (unknown author, biography of very minor celebrity, etc etc etc). You can also see that the Vale's Library Service has bought in books in anticipation of an upsurge in interest in, say, the First World War, which hasn't translated into people borrowing books, but these are guesses made in advance and reflect the number of books being published in that genre. Some sections such as Teen Fiction, have a good stock of books but we have relatively few teenage readers, sadly. So, if you have a few moments in the library look out for our White Dotted Dusty Books, sometimes they are little gems.

 

You will have seen our new logo for the library, (or see above) which was chosen from a large number of submissions from Wenvoe Primary School; the winner was Georgia Iles. There were many interesting ideas drawn but Georgia's best encapsulated the sense of reading and community in the round, and provided the basis of an iconic image which can be used on electronic and printed material.

 

 

 

 

 

 

WENVOE COMMUNITY LIBRARY

SATURDAY SWAP SHOP

When: Saturday November 19th 10am –12 midday

Where: Wenvoe Community Library

What: Bring along a jigsaw you have finished with OR a game you don’t play

Then: SWAP /BUY /BORROW

Its easy, its good fun so come and join us at our community library

If you would like more information contact Sylvia Harvey Tel:2059 2261