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Read and Relax Collection
What is the Read and Relax collection?
Where will the collection be located?
How can I browse the collection?
How many items can I borrow?
How long can I borrow items for?
Get involved in expanding this collection
Write a book review
Can’t get enough? Learn about the thousands of other items available to you through your local public library services
What is the Read and Relax collection?
The Read and Relax Collection is a new collection of items purchased to provide recreational reading for all library users.
There are currently over 400 items in the collection including fiction, biographies, thrillers, horror, crime, classics, fantasy, family sagas and other non-fiction which do not relate to the study of healthcare.
Funding for this new collection was obtained from the Health Care Libraries Unit (HCLU) through the Library Development Fund scheme. It is intended that this collection will support Improving Working Lives (IWL) by providing staff with means of relaxation and time away from studying or their work base.
Where will the collection be located?
The Read and Relax collection is split between the McArdle Library (Education Centre, Arrowe Park Hospital) and the John A. Aitken Library (Wirral Postgraduate Medical Centre, Clatterbridge Hospital).
Items in the collection are displayed in each library for you to browse at your leisure.
Each item has a label on its spine indicating that it is part of the Read and Relax Collection and a label with the first letter of the author’s surname. This helps you to identify books by certain authors, editors or publishers quickly.
How can I browse the collection?
Browse the Read and Relax collection on the ILS catalogue.
How many items can I borrow?
You can borrow up to three items from the Read and Relax collection at any one time in addition to your standard borrowing allowance. To learn more about your borrowing rights, please link to the Borrowing, Renewing & Reserving Service.
How long can I borrow items for?
You may borrow items for four weeks. Up to three renewals are permitted as long as the item has not been requested by another user. Link here for more information.
Get involved in expanding this collection
The Integrated Library Service (ILS) is continually looking for new funding streams to expand the Read and Relax Collection to provide you with a greater choice of items.
If you have any fiction books (all genres welcome!) in good condition that you wish to donate to the ILS, simply post them in the Book Return boxes in the foyer or outside the McArdle Library at Arrowe Park Hospital. You may also hand them into the library staff at either the McArdle Library, Arrowe Park Hospital or John A. Aitken Library, Clatterbridge Hospital.
Selection of donated items will take into consideration the criteria outlined in the ILS Collection Management policy.
Please note: Duplicates will be passed onto the League of Friends for their patient collection
Write a book review
We would also like to invite you write a review of a book that you have found to be a particularly good read. This could be a book from the Read and Relax collection or even a novel you read on your last holiday!
A £10 gift voucher will be awarded to the person who supplies the best book review. This will be awarded on an annual basis every December.
Submit your book review to mcardle.library@nhs.net or hand it in at either site library with the following details:
*Your name
*Your address
*Your contact e-mail address
*Author
*Title of book
*ISBN (if available)
*Your review
Can’t get enough? Learn about the thousands of other items available to you through your local public library services
Public libraries give local residents access to thousands more relaxing reads through their services, use the selected links below to learn about public libraries in Cheshire and Merseyside.
Liverpool city council libraries
www.liverpool.gov.uk/libraries/
Wirral Libraries
http://prism.wirral-libraries.net/TalisPrism/
Cheshire East Council Library Service
www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/libraries
Cheshire West and Chester Council Library Service
www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/libraries
Halton Libraries
http://www2.halton.gov.uk/content/tourismandleisure/libraries/
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Arrowe Park Hospital, Arrowe Park Road, Upton, Wirral, Merseyside CH49 5PE
Switchboard: (0151) 678 5111