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• Headspace
• 06 June 2008
• Headspace is one of 20 ‘Book Bars’ set up in libraries and youth settings across England. It aims to be a place where young people can chill out; access their favourite books and magazines and be served by ‘Book Waiters’, who bring them a cappuccino and a book of their choice. Headspace in Folkestone was one of the first to open and is one of only two in a non-library location.
• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Learning & Skills, Libraries

• RaW at the Races
• 20 May 2008
• This event was a partnership project devised to form part of the BBC’s RaW campaign in 2007. RaW aims to enable more adults to read and write and works closely with libraries to achieve this. The Library Service was able to work with BBC South and Newbury Racecourse to reach a potential new audience of local families in a different setting.
• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Learning & Skills, Libraries

• West Sussex Past Gateway
• 12 May 2008

• West Sussex Past Gateway is a searchable web gateway for databases and information on the heritage of the county. Some fourteen partner organisations now form the West Sussex Heritage Consortium which has ownership of the website through its Project Management Group.

• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Archives, Collections, E-Society, Learning & Skills, Libraries, Museums

• Citizenship Classes at Portsmouth Central Library
• 24 January 2008
• A project to successfully prepare students for the British Citizenship Test.
• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Learning & Skills, Libraries

• View Finder
• 03 January 2008

• View Finder was a project to photographically document the construction of The Lightbox, Woking’s first museum and gallery.

• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Learning & Skills, Museums

• My Brighton & Hove
• 06 November 2007

• A project designed to record the heritage of the Brighton and Hove area in digital media, promote awareness of local culture/heritage/lifestyle through digital media, develop information technology skills and (awareness of the need for these skills) among the community and to advance cultural understanding.

• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Archives, Digital Futures, E-Society, Learning & Skills, Libraries, Museums

• Health Information Packs
• 29 August 2007

• The aim is to signpost local and national health and support services, websites and library resources.

• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Libraries

• Books on Prescription
• 29 August 2007

• GPs and other health practitioners may ‘prescribe’ a book from an approved list for a patient with an emotional or psychological difficulty.

• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Libraries

• Books can Help
• 29 August 2007

• A 6-month pilot based in and around Chatham aimed to empower patients by giving them access to self-help books, prescribed by the Doctor or by a member of the mental health team, providing knowledge about their condition and the means to help them deal with it. The Books Can Help scheme is now being promoted directly to the public.

• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Libraries

• Health Activism in the Library
• 29 August 2007

• Health activism aims to tackle the causes of heart disease in the South Asian population in Slough.

• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Libraries

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