Libraries are for everyone.
We're committed to ensuring our service is accessible to the whole community, including those who, for various reasons, are unable or unlikely to visit our main building in Town.
Our dedicated Outreach Team deliver special programmes, events, and services to children and adults in a wide variety of community settings - including care homes and community libraries.
Partnerships
To deliver Outreach services we work with a variety of valued partners, including:
+ Homestart
We regularly visit Homestart’s Dragonflies groups for rhyme times with the families there. Homestart also encourage their families to come to the Library and make the most of the services we offer.
+ The Kindred Family Centre
Every two weeks we visit the Kindred Family Centre for a rhyme time with the families there. We also work with the family support team to develop their Incredible Years Parenting course, sharing our expertise on the importance of early literacy skills.
+ Bright Beginnings Children's Centre
Once a fortnight run a rhyme time at Bright Beginnings's Stay and Play sessions, as well as providing sessions about the importance of reading and early literacy for their parenting and mental health support groups.
Several times a year we run 'Rhyme Together' sessions at the Jubilee Day Centre, where children under 4 join older adults for a lively rhyme time then a play and a chat.
+ Guernsey Prison
We work closely with Guernsey Prison to order new books, provide advice on library systems and procedures, and run a very popular book request service. Our staff also share their expertise to support the orderly librarian in running the library.
We also work with Prison staff to run the Storybook Dads scheme, which sees prisoners record a bedtime story for their children. Read our blog or watch this TEDx video to find out more about this wonderful scheme.
