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Community Chest: Library Services And Local Events
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In this episode of Community Chest, Dominik hosts Charlene Brooks, a materials manager at the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library. They discuss the library's high visitor numbers, internet training, and a book prescription scheme for mental health. The programme also covers the Norwich Festival of Cultures 2008 and the Evening News Local Heroes Awards.
Dominik hosts a series of segments featuring guest Charlene Brooks, a materials manager at the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library. They discuss the library's status as the busiest in the country, its non-fiction collection, and services such as 'baby bounce and rhyme times', internet training, and a book prescription scheme for mental health. The programme also covers upcoming author visits by Jojo Moyes and Robert Goddard, and the Norwich Festival of Cultures 2008. Additionally, Dominik discusses the Evening News Local Heroes Awards and shares a personal reflection on the song 'Guantanamera', recalling it as communist propaganda while in Czechoslovakia.
Topics
- Non-fiction collections and services at the Norwich Library
- Library services and digital resources
- Non-fiction book collections and curation
- Library services and author events in Norfolk
- Norwich Festival of Cultures 2008
- Evening News Local Heroes Awards
- Local heroes and heroism
Participants
- Dominik
- Charlene Brooks
- Amon Burgess
- Chloe Smith
Names are taken from the archive as written and may include spelling variants.
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The busiest library in the whole country. Are you? Yes. Congratulations! Thank you. Yeah, it was something we're very because yesterday, so I'm well, or the day before, I was contributing to the busyness. Yeah, no, it's something that the people of Norwich and Norfolk should be very proud of. So, how do you measure the busyness? Well, we count our visitors, and we have around one point six.
You know, to mental health issues like anxiety and depression, and but that's proved very successful because it's self-help through the written word, which is a wonderful initiative, and we've had really positive feedback from from customers. Okay, what are some of the other ones? We've got.
What an awful piece of communist propaganda! But when Pete Seeger does it, it sounds inspirational and great, and you just want to and you just want to love the whole world. So.
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Why it was chosen The speaker is going to listen to this in London later today
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Why it was chosen To be a bit spiritual
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Why it was chosen The speaker wants to play an interesting song
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Why it was chosen Filling time while waiting for the next guest
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Why it was chosen The speaker loves Pete Seeger's voice and connects the song's themes of humility and daily life to a discussion on unsung heroes
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Why it was chosen The speaker associates the music with feelings of distance and returning home