village news Library News
In the news Library News
5
RNLI
6
Melbourn and Meldreth Self Help Group
6
Children of Chernobyl visit Melbourn
6
Melbourn and Meldreth Women’s Group
7
Cruise on the Ouse!
7
Melbourn History Group
9
Melbourn Radiate Brooch
9
All Saints’ Community Hall
10
The Melbourn Village Plan
10
Melbourn Business Association (MBA)
11
In praise of David Piggott
11
Melbourn & Meldreth Branch Royal British Legion Women’s Section
11
The Old Police Site – Community Hub
12
Royston and District Family History Society
14
Royston & District Local History Society
14
Re-ablement
14
Cambridgeshire Mencap
14
Cambridge Sofa becomes Cambridge Re-Use
15
Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA)
15
Melbourn and Meldreth Self Help Group cook book 15 Melbourn Fete 2011
16
COFFEE STOP Every Saturday 10.30am to 12noon Rombouts coffee & biscuits for 80p at
As you will know the Village HUB project will begin in the New Year, following the Parish Council consultation and results of the Village Plan. The village will see a new Hub building on the site of the old police station, which will contain the Library, the Parish Office, and a meeting place. The Library will be a major contributor to the Hub, which we hope will become a village meeting place. The Library is particularly important as it is an existing facility and will be able to supply its expertise and stock to the Hub. It will have to change to meet the changing world we live in, as a result of the digital revolution. But it is certain that people will always need access to information in an interactive friendly environment. The Hub will be a meeting place for innovation. The Parish Council is supporting the library team during the interim period to help it achieve both the transfer and the planning of the new facility. Our team is well used to running a library facility, but has no experience of the problems and management of a new library. We will need to decide what new equipment is needed to raise the profile. We will need to work out how the Library is to be arranged to generate interest in it. We need some new team members to supply both the expertise and the new drive, which will determine our ultimate success. So if you feel you have a contribution to make, then please visit us and tell us what you have to offer. There is no need to feel beholden to the existing team as we are looking for new skills. It will be an exciting and rewarding time. In the meantime, the Library is still doing well. We have re-started our Story Time and numbers have risen dramatically recently. We need another volunteer to strengthen the Story Tellers Team. This person would help perhaps twice a month to ease the load on our team. Please contact Eleanor Fitzgerald after Story Time at the Library. The Library phone number is 01763 269956 or ring Mike Stapleton on 01763 261241. We have relatively little space left for new books so can only accept a small number and they have to be in good condition to enable us to maintain our standards. Books need to be reasonably new, say post 2000. We cannot use technical or reference books as we do not have categories for these items and the demand is very low. We reserve the right to dispose of any donations we do not need. Library opening times are: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 2.30 to 4.30 pm. Thursday 5.00 to 7.00 pm Saturday 10.00 to 12.00 noon Story Time – Thursday 10.00 to 10.45 am.
All Saints’ Community Hall melbournmagazine
5
