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Northumbria Book Club – New Developments

We launched our Book club in February 2019 to highlight the benefits of leisure reading for clinical staff and students and to promote the library to non-users. Every month, we choose a Book of the month (BOTM), which is displayed in our 4 libraries and recommended on social media. Our choices often tie in with topical events, for example, Women and power for International Women’s Day and Life on our planet for NHS Sustainability Day. We run a Facebook poll to choose a summer reading Book of the month and select a Christmas book for December – Twas the nightshift before Christmas is one of our most popular BOTMs so far.…

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Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

The library team is much depleted and currently consists of me at the moment as both my library assistants have moved on recently. Linda retired and went to live in Spain and Sam found another job outside the NHS. I hope to appoint a new assistant librarian shortly.…

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Keyll Darree Bistro

This year Keyll Darree was lucky enough to be selected as World Book Night givers. We wrote an impassioned essay about our willingness to throw copies of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy at people from all sectors of society while yelling at them about how great it was, and the kind people at World Book Night actually believed in us.…

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