08 February 2016
In response to cuts resulting from the government's austerity programme, Enfield Council has begun implementing its Libraries Strategy: bringing in volunteer librarians in place of professional information specialists; creating four "flagship" libraries while downsizing and leasing out the remainder as "community libraries"; and setting up a volunteer-run home delivery service to replace mobile libraries.
Volunteer librarians required
Recruitment and training of volunteer.......
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16 August 2015
The following information about volunteering opportunities was posted on the Enfield Council website this week.
Volunteering is fun, rewarding and it changes lives - volunteer now for Enfield's Library and Museum Service.We are looking for people from a range of ages and backgrounds to help us deliver fantastic projects in our Libraries, Local Studies Unit and Museum for the benefit of the whole community.We have opportunities from helping out with our children's activities to sharing your IT.......
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17 June 2015
Seven-day opening of Palmers Green Library is one of the innovations that will be introduced if Enfield Council agrees to a proposed Library Development Strategy for 2015 to 2018.
The Strategy will be among the subjects to be discussed at this week's meeting of Enfield's Cabinet. If agreed by the Cabinet, it will be presented to the full Council for its approval later this year.
Palmers Green Library as it will look when it reopens later this year. Under the new strategy it will be open.......
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18 April 2015
Enfield Council is to start looking for suitable partners to take over the majority of the borough's libraries. These libraries would become "community libraries", offering a restricted range of library services, and would be co-located with other types of service provided by the chosen partners. However, despite the use of "community" in the designation, a recent document suggests that chosen partners might include the commercial sector..
The libraries affected include Winchmore.......
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13 November 2014
Enfield Council is consulting residents about proposals for a radical restructuring of its current library service. The changes are designed to reduce the costs of library services - Enfield is having to contend with a cut of £80 million in the amount of funding it receives from central government - through greater concentration of resources, while at the same time providing library services across the borough and modernising the types of service that are available.
The consultation asks.......
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01 September 2014
Enfield Library and Museum Service has provided updated information about arrangements during the closure of Palmers Green Library.
The library will not reopen until autumn 2015. In the meantime, opening hours have been extended at Winchmore Hill, Ridge Avenue and Southgate Circus libraries - click on the image to see the official notice. In addition, a mobile library will be open in the Lodge Drive car park every Saturday from 9am to 5pm.
The Library and Museum Service has a web.......
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14 July 2014
Enfield Council's Library Service has modified the planned extended opening hours at neighbouring libraries which are designed to compensate for the year-long closure of Palmers Green Library from 26 July.
There will now be extended hours only at Southgate Circus, Winchmore Hill and Ridge Avenue libraries and not at Bowes Road. The extended hours will not start until 11 August.
Southgate Circus
Winchmore Hill
Ridge Avenue
Monday
9am-8pm
9am-8pm
9am-8pm.......
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10 July 2014
With less than a fortnight to go before Palmers Green Library closes its doors until autumn 2015, the public will have a chance to find out what the Library will look like and what services will be available after its refurbishment.
Enfield Library and Museum Service are inviting anyone interested in the future of the library to come along to drop-in question and answer sessions on Saturday 12 July 2014 between 2.30 and 4pm and on Tuesday 22 July between 5.30 and 7pm. At the session on.......
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20 June 2014
When Palmers Green Library reopens in the summer of 2015 after its refurbishment, it appears that bookshelf space will be considerably smaller than at present. In fact, one regular user's conclusion from looking at the artist's impressions of the refurbished library is that it will no longer really be a library, just a room with some books:
I have recently been in the PG Library and taken a quick look at the architect's illustrations of the refurbished premises. Initially I thought there.......
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26 March 2014
On 4 March planning permission was granted for refurbishment of Palmers Green Library. The official planning documentation can be found on the Council website, the most interesting documents being the Planning Statement and Design and Access Statement.
The exterior of the building, now separated from the adjacent former town hall, will be renovated and a new entrance and new liftshaft built on the north-eastern corner (see illustration). Inside the building, only about half of the.......
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16 October 2013
Plans for refurbishment of Palmers Green Library, which were approved by Enfield Council's Cabinet on 16 October, will leave Palmers Green Town Centre without a proper library for a period of 14 months.
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12 April 2013
Enfield Council is planning to relocate Palmers Green Library to a prefabricated building to be erected on the southern side of the Lodge Drive car park - it would be close to the rear of the Westlake's hardware shop and near one of the entrances to St Anne's High School.
The Council submitted a planning application (P13-00552PLA) for the single-storey temporary building on 28th February and it will go before the Planning Committee on 23rd April (for details, see this document). The.......
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04 October 2024
Southgate & Wood Green MP Bambos Charalambous has written to Enfield Council expressing concerns about the impact of the proposed closure of eight of the borough's smaller libraries
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27 August 2024
Enfield Council is consulting on proposals that would see eight smaller libraries closing, including Bowes Road, Southgate, and Winchmore Hill, and 'enhanced' services at the remaining libraries, which include Palmers Green.
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