Talking Eyes to open
New computers enable visually impaired residents to read library books The Mayor of Merton, Councillor Stuart Pickover, will launch Talking Eyes, a new speaking computer, at the Donald Hope Library […]
Category Archives: Libraries
MERTON WINS NATIONAL LIBRARY AWARD
London Borough of Merton’s Library Service has won the prestigious Library Association’s Libraries Change Lives Award, set up by the Library Association to celebrate the value of libraries to people […]
WHAT DO CHILDREN THINK OF LIBRARY SERVICES?
Merton Council’s Library Service has launched a further stage of an initiative to discover what one of its most important groups of ‘customers’ thinks of the service. From 21 May […]
TALKING EYES READER’S GROUP
Merton’s library services will be holding the first meeting of their Talking Eyes project, a reader’s group aimed at the blind, visually impaired and partially sighted, on Wednesday, 16 May […]
LIBRARY SERVICE BOOKS A PLACE FOR AWARD
Merton Council’s Library & Heritage Service has been short-listed for a top national award. The Library Service entered the Library Association’s Libraries Change Lives Awards and could be in line […]
LIBRARIES READY TO GO
Merton Council is celebrating after its library and heritage service was “ready to respond to the Government agenda” according to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Merton received […]