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Following a successful application to the Big Lottery Fund, Hertfordshire County Council is redeveloping the library at South Oxhey. The Green Heart Partnership has facilitated this Perception Area: Snapshot project with the local community, looking at use and future services that can be delivered from the new refurbished South Oxhey Library. This work has supported HCC's development a Community Engagement Strategy for the library.
A free Afternoon Tea Party is being held at South Oxhey Library on Saturday 19 July, from 1.30 to 3.30 pm. The event will celebrate the publication of the South Oxhey Library Book, thank everyone who has been involved in its production, and provide information about the library’s redevelopment. Everyone is welcome to the party at the library on Bridlington Road, where there will also be an opportunity to enjoy ‘musical baby rhyme time’ and stories for children.
The South Oxhey Library Book is the outcome of the work of international artist team Simon Grennan and Chris Sperandio, known as the Kartoon Kings, who worked with local residents in South Oxhey to discover what their ideal library service would be like.
800 books will be distributed to households in Northwick Ward, in the immediate vicinity of the Library, as a gift from the artists, and their fellow residents. Copies of the book will also be available for loan in the new Library along with an archive of the project.
Download the South Oxhey Library Book (6MB pdf)
>>Find out more
Project Type
Perception Area
Partner Links
http://www.kartoonkings.com/
South Oxhey Library page
Hertfordshire County Council's project page
The Team
Artists
Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio (the Kartoon Kings)
Hertfordshire County Council
Service Development Manager - Information and Lifelong Learning
Hertfordshire Libraries;
County Arts Development Officer
Watford and Three Rivers District Librarian
Three Rivers District Council
Community Arts Development Officer
South Oxhey Library
District Librarian Librarian/Library Manager
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"Thanks to the National Lottery funding we received last year we have enormous scope to upgrade the South Oxhey library building itself and open up the range of services and activities for local people. We hope that, with the help of this highly imaginative form of consultation through the Green Heart Partnership and the Kartoon Kings, local people will be keen to help us to build up a picture of how library services in Oxhey should develop, through their ideas, views and suggestions.” said Executive Member for Education and Culture, Keith Emsall
19 July: South Oxhey Book launch! Read full press release
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