News - Caton Community Library Trust

Lancashire County Library and Information Service recently acquired funding from Lancashire Economic partnership and the North West Development Agency to develop library services in rural areas of the county where there are no permanent library services.

New opening times commenced from Saturday 15th September. We have the books! We have the volunteers! All we need is more readers. Browse for books in the Victoria Institute Foyer as below:

Caton Community Library is please to announce that we will be open on Saturday mornings from 9.45 to 11.45am. 

In November the County Council will be putting on taster sessions for various outreach activities, so please support them as  it will help our library succeed.

The new community library currently open in the Victoria Institute, Caton is now manned by volunteers for more hours.  We are now officially open on Tuesday afternoon 2pm to 5pm, Thursday mornings 10am to 12noon and Friday evenings 3.30pm to 7pm. Our volunteers are happy to help you choose a book or give you information about forthcoming events.

Many thanks to everyone who supported us at the Gala. We now have a small but growing membership and have sold some of our duplicate books. If you would like to become a member either come along and join during the current opening hours or visit Caton’s Website and use the form there.

A meeting was held on 10th May between the Library Trust and Lancashire County Council about the way forward with the new library service.  The County Council are willing to provide a supply of books, but the Library Trust need to know what kind of books you would want them to supply to us.

Lancashire County Council have received funding to re-commence a library service in Caton.  The library trust will be working in collaboration with them.

Further information will follow as plans unfold.

Our library is now open in the Victoria Institute. We have a good selection of books; romance, crime, thrillers, gardening, and a growing children's section. Please come and have a look.

Books can be taken out for up to three weeks. There is a folder to sign out what you have taken.

Over the Christmas period there were a couple of exciting developments in the attempts to get a library service back into the village. We hope to get a book borrowing scheme off the ground soon. The intention is to base a small book borrowing library at the Victoria Institute where people have been dropping off their books.