ossy library.

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 They are so outdated and I'm sure that most of them haven't been taken out for years.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!
 
Rossy library.

blazey said:
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 They are so outdated and I'm sure that most of them haven't been taken out for years.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!
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Think it may have something to do with the fact that Accy library is just a tad bigger than Ossy:D
 
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jaysay said:
Think it may have something to do with the fact that Accy library is just a tad bigger than Ossy:D
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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.
 
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blazey said:
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.
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As I've said in another tread knowledge doesn't change nor does whats in a book either, if you look hard enough you may just find that a lot of information is written in books older than myself and I can give you 40 odd years:rolleyes:
 
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
 

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wadey said:
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
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They'd be inundated with people's old tat if they allowed donations of books.
 
When I wanted to be rid of lots of books, I donated them to Merlin Court.
I think that many old folks homes will have some bookshelves in their communal areas.
Some old folks rarely go out and so find it difficult to get to the council run library.
 
Perhaps Blazey could write to Andrew Carnegie, and demand that his donation no longer satisfies her needs, and that it needs extending.
 
jaysay said:
Ossy don't have a Town Hall now Mallard its a Theatre and has been for years:rolleyes:
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...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?
 
Rossy library.

Tealeaf said:
...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?
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Me neither, must be the PC thing to do these days:rolleyes:
 
So now we read that LCC are to withdraw the hardcopy reference facilities in Accy and a number of other sites - presumably Ossy's reference section is now the baby changing facility. Is this because every line of every document and book currently available has now been digitally copied? Somehow I doubt it. Just what the hell is going on here?

In retrospect, I suppose the writing was on the wall when Church Library closed to become a battered women's hostel. Ossy will no doubt end up a creche and Accy Library will probably end up an Islamic cultural centre.
 
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Tealeaf said:
In retrospect, I suppose the writing was on the wall when Church Library closed to become a battered women's hostel.
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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
 
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