Ashton Library - update

Author Steve Hartley visited the library in February as part of the Children’s Literature Festival. Approx 60 children attended from St Thomas’ school who had an absolutely amazing time.

The library has has facilitated 5 class visits with 201 children in total and one re arranged for March.

They now run a joint monthly Family Fun and Craft session with the Children’s Centre which was very well received with approximately 30 attendees.

Easter holidays activities include an Under 5s party and pottery with the Clayman.

Interest has been shown already on the advertised forthcoming Universal Jobmatch course which will be run by ACL and will hopefully be in place for April.

In February the Library  had 11,296 visitors to Ashton Library, issued 6,401 items and handled 1,059 enquiries, while 827 people attended 30 events and 1,312 people spent 947 hours on the public access computers.