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The Library Life of an Apprehensive Apprentice
What’s up? (Some delightful ceiling tiles; the clock; a fire exit sign… Sorry. Easily distracted.) Hello, I’m Nathan, the library apprentice at SWFT. If you’ve been into the library in the Education Centre at Warwick Hospital in the past year, Read More …
GEH Wellbeing reading group review of What July Knew by Emily Koch
We’d saved What July Knew by Emily Koch to read in July with our wellbeing reading group. Purely because of the name! Our readers enjoyed this book for the most part. There were some parts that were difficult to read, Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group Book Review of The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler
Our read this month was The Tobacconist, written by Robert Seethaler in 2014 and recently translated from the German by Charlotte Collins. It is the story of Franz, a teenager from a small village in the Austrian lakes who moves Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group Book Review of The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The book choice for July was the fascinating The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. This tale, partly based on real events, follows the fictional Esme Nicholl and the very real creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. So far, Read More …
Bring and Buy Plant Stall
The 25th July saw the Library’s bring and buy plant stall with all proceeds going to the hospital’s gardens. It all started when another health library in our consortium put a request in for all of our four gardening books. Querying Read More …
GEH Kindness book giveaway
The Wellbeing Reading Team at George Eliot were thrilled to receive some books from a publisher, and decided the time was right for a kindness giveaway. We asked our fantastic colleagues at GEH to nominate a member of staff who Read More …
Health Information Week – spotlight on Children’s Health
Last week was Health Information Week, and one of this year’s themes is Children’s Health. In this post we’ve partnered with Warwickshire Libraries Librarian, Phil, to highlight sources of trustworthy information about children’s health, their safety and wellbeing. Also with Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group book review – Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
where to begin with this experimental, award-winning piece of literature? a kaleidoscopic celebration of diversity with plenty to provoke discussion twelve characters from different generations, with wildly contrasting backgrounds and experiences, whose lives intertwine, converging on the performance of a Read More …
Team Insights training
For the first time on Thursday 8th June, the joint Knowledge and Library Service met for training together at the Eliot Park Innovation Centre. It was very useful for our whole team to meet, as we are normally based on Read More …