Monday 28 November 2011

How ready are you to take a risk?




Borrow a mystery ‘Take A Risk Book’,fill in the short questionnaire and you will
automatically win a prize,


AND


have your name entered into a free prize draw with the chance to win more prizes,


PLUS spot prizes to be won.

See a Librarian in the


Discovery Library for details.

Monday 14 November 2011

Recent Word of the Week Winners

War Memorial Library :

MIASMA
Noun 
 An unwholesome or menacing atmosphere. Pollution in the atmosphere, especially noxious vapours from decomposing organic matter.
chosen by Mrs. Dowse (Reprographics)
SECULARISATION 
Noun
The activity of changing something (art/education/society or morality) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion.
chosen by Ashlee Whittingham (13WH)

Discovery Library :
ANACHRONISM
NounWhen you speak of or talk about something that does not exist or has not been invented.
chosen by Victor Reynolds (9TH)

PERSPECTIVE
Noun
A technique used by artists to give a picture the illusion of distance. Way of regarding situations or facts and judging their relative importance.
chosen by Daniel Smith (7BP)