Originally Posted by blazey (Post 722627)

Oswaldtwistle library doesn't need a new look, it was fine how it was though it lacked any space to actually do any real reading in there.

It needs a better choice of books! They are so outdated and I'm sure that most of them haven't been taken out for years. The children's books section is brilliant but everything else is terrible.

I once went in and they didn't have a desk for me to study at except in the children's section. Accrington Library is by far much more useful and I often walk there from ossy so I can study with plenty of space and a bigger choice of books rather than attempt to find somewhere to sit in the ossy one!

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 722661)

Think it may have something to do with the fact that Accy library is just a tad bigger than Ossy:D

Originally Posted by blazey (Post 722667)

Oswaldtwistle library is just rubbish, that is the problem. It's nothing to do with size. Most of it's books are older than I am.

Originally Posted by wadey (Post 722793)

Here's a photo, there's a couple in The Gallery but on the subject of libraries why cannot we donate books to the library instead of taking them to the charity shops?
Carnegie Library 1915, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire

Originally Posted by mallard (Post 722956)

have you trying phoneing the town hall ossy they mite tell you when it opens.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 723025)

Ossy don't have a Town Hall now Mallard its a Theatre and has been for years:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 723077)

...but the good news is that the library will now have a baby changing facility! What this has got to do with the quest for knowledge and the idea of a library as a haven of intellectual contemplation, I do not know. Can anyone advise?

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 723025)

Ossy don't have a Town Hall now Mallard its a Theatre and has been for years:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 724157)

In retrospect, I suppose the writing was on the wall when Church Library closed to become a battered women's hostel.

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 724168)

Church Library was closed to stop all the fighting over Viz, the only thing ever read in it. :p

I think Ossy Library will be turned into another gypsy park

Originally Posted by blazey (Post 724149)

I thought they still had a town hall facility within the theatre!

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 723077)

...but the good news is that the library will now have a baby changing facility!

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 724195)

People in Ossy can read:eek:

Originally Posted by nortype (Post 724225)

ossy library re-furbishment like a breath of fresh air. well done to all ...

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 724237)

After the message you sent me on facebook I dread to think what books you were reading :D

Originally Posted by nortype (Post 724225)

yes eric we can read & write and do most thing's this silly government has not banned i.e. smoking in pubs & public place's the world's going mad or is it just england. sooner this lot out the better. oh and by the way ossy library re-furbishment like a breath of fresh air. well done to all ...

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 724172)

You, Gayle and Garinda could pretend to be Gypsies. Just stick some tea towels round your heads, get some upturned goldfish bowls and then read people's fortunes in there. It's the sort of thing Gayle is good at organising. You will have the local fruitcakes queuing all the way down Union road.

Originally Posted by nortype (Post 724294)

ok eric forgiven just behave.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 724305)

You'll get used to Eric, Ray, he likes to poke fun at the homeland when he's been out Moose hunting:D

Originally Posted by nortype (Post 724294)

ok eric forgiven just behave.

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 724532)

I never behave .... don't have to; I'm from Clayton .... bottom end:tongueout;):D

Originally Posted by blazey (Post 725640)

I went into the library today. I was quite impressed to be honest, they seemed to have cleared out a lot of the old, unread books and made the place feel a lot fresher. The tables are better to work at as well, though I was with my family so I haven't put this to the test yet.

It is much brighter in there, and the staff seem a lot happier though they didn't yet have chairs!

I was talking to one lady there and she said some people had been quite negative about the library's refurbishment, which I think is quite a shame because it hasn't REALLY been changed that much, it's just been given a much more modern look and I think it will definitely encourage more people to go in there, which is the main point really.

Someone wrote in the book of comments that is was 'Bland as califlower' [sic] but I think it is fantastic. It's not like the library was particularly fantastic before it was done, it was in desperate need of a revamp.

Anyone else been in?