Oswestry Library - your comments

A selection of comments made about Oswestry Library appear below. All suggestions and complaints are carefully considered and action is taken to make improvements where these are possible within physical and budgetary constraints. Do you agree with these views? Is there anything you would like to add? If so, please do tell library staff or comment online.

The following comments were made as part of a children's survey (for up to 16 years) carried out in October 2007.

• Steps up to the children's area is very difficult.
• Children's library on ground floor.
• More toddler reading workshops and singing groups.
• Need a better lock on gate or better gate in children's area.
• If you had more books.
• Be open on Thursdays.
• More tables and chairs.
• For it to be bigger.
• More computers.
• To have more children's books upstairs.
• Children's library on ground floor. Toilets more accessible for children.
• Child friendly toilets/baby changing facilities.
• More computers.
• More vibrant paint colours on the walls especially in the children's section.
• More teenage books.
• Better location. Difficulty with parking.
• Difficulty with pushchairs to get upstairs.
• The children's books should be on the ground floor for ease of access not up three flights of stairs.
• More shelves because the books look squashed. A way to find books easier.
• Bike rack/shed.
• A corner for just reading - no computers.
• A place for children to do homework it has to be quiet. Get someone famous in.
• More computers.
• Good for doing family tree and children's books.
• More teenage books.
• More bright colours or signs.
• Air conditioning and more books for 10-12 type of age group.
• More books.
• A bit longer computer session eg 1 hour 30 minutes.
• More books and more films.
• Toilets!
• A better selection of comics (eg Simpson's, batman).
• I am very happy in my library.
• I want the computers to have access to other things. New books and DVDs of more choice.
• No stairs.
• I don't have any other ideas because I already like it.
• Homework club.
• Cheerful people/workers. More colour.
• Colourful and more decorative.
• Some animal shaped bookcases for little ones.
• You can read, so your homework, go on the computers.
• More chapter books about animals.
• Make the library a bit more bright and cheerful. Have more PG films not too young. Have a top notch selection for older children.
• More books. More maps.

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