We are looking forward to welcoming those students (and staff if they like) to our first Reading Group meeting. For the first meeting we'll have a fun book quiz, with a prize for the winner. Then we'll just have a chat about what sort of books everyone likes or dislikes. It'll be fun and light-hearted, nothing heavy; there may even be refreshments provided! Come along and see you what you think.

Friday 16th November 2012- The Library at Booth Lane 12pm- 1pm

News about reading Groups at Daventry and Lower Mounts will be available soon- watch this space!!

Short Story & Poetry Competition

The Library is pleased to announce the launch of its 'Short Story' & 'Poetry' Competition. If any of you are budding Shakespeares, Prachetts, Meyers or Heanys then put pen to paper and show us what you can do. There will be prizes awarded for the best entries.

Word Count

Poems- up to 300 words

Short Stories- up to 1500 words

The competition is open to staff and students from:

Monday 15th October- Friday 16th October. Hand your entries in at any of the three libraries and we'll keep you posted about winners. Good luck and happy writing!!

Reading Club

The Library is hoping to start a reading club aimed at level 3 students and above. We want it to start after Study Review Week and would like as many people as possible to show interest. If you would like to join, know more about it or have some favourite book titles you would like to pass on, post on this blog and we'll get a conversation going. Let's all help to celebrate reading across the College.

New A'Level Students

Hello and welcome to all the A'level students who have come to look around Northampton College today. We hope you like what you see and decide to join us for the new term.

You will just have had some activities in the Library, which we hope you enjoyed. Remember the library staff are all here to help you with your studies, so if you have any questions, let us know.

It would be really good if you could leave a comment on this post; could be about the college in general, the Library or what you think of your day so far.

Have fun today and listen to all the advice you're given and we hope to see you enrolled next week.

It's a new term

Welcome back to everyone joining us from last year. For those who are new to the College, hope you are settling in well. Whatever your circumstances don't forget to come and visit the library for all of your information and resource needs. We have new stock, new e-books, new e-resources and even new orchids making the shelving look pretty!! All members of library staff are here to help support your independent study so if you have any questions pop into one of the centres and talk to us.

Good luck with your course this year, let's hope everyone gets the best results they possibly can.