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We have an exciting part-time opportunity based at the Library and Community Hub, located at the Millpool, Looe. We are a small team but we aim big and we are passionate about reading and books and also about providing useful information and efficient services to local residents and visitors to Looe. Constantly seeking to improve the way we work, we pride ourselves on being positive, flexible and creative. If you share our ethos, love books & people and have skills & experience to add to our team, we would love to hear from you.

Based in Looe Library, you will be providing and promoting library services as well as marketing Looe as a visitor destination and supplying tourist information. We use a variety of IT systems so familiarity with Word, Outlook and Excel is essential as well as the ability to make good use of social media. Experience in delivering library services would be an advantage but, more importantly, you will need to be a great communicator who can empathise with others, respond to enquiries efficiently and recognise when to signpost people to other services. The shift is 4.5 hours per week on a Saturday, 9:45am-2:15pm, starting January 2024.

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Catherine on 01503 262255.

For more information and to apply, please visit our Careers page at Careers – Looe Town Council

See what has been happening in the library this month.

 

Monthly Newsletter – Looe Library – Looe Town Council

We have been advised that ASLEF (train drivers union) are taking industrial action starting this Friday 1 December until Sunday 10 December, with a strike at GWR on Thursday 7 December and action short of a strike for the other affected days.

This means that GWR will run a very limited service on Sunday 3 December, especially on long-distance services. As such, some parts of the GWR network will have no service at all, including all long distance trains out of London Paddington to Bristol, South Wales, and the South West. There will be no replacement bus services in operation either.

Customers are advised to travel before the weekend or after Sunday. Where GWR can run services (expected to include most of their local services), only a limited number of trains will run. These trains will be much busier than usual, and services will be subject to short notice alteration or cancellations.

GWR will update journey planners as soon as possible, and these should be accurate online from tomorrow (Thursday 30 November). Customers with tickets to travel from Saturday 2 December to Friday 8 December can use these the day before they are valid or up to and including Tuesday 12 December.

For full information please visit the dedicated strike page www.gwr.com/strike, or see GWR media release at: https://news.gwr.com/news/no-trains-between-london-paddington-and-bristol-south-wales-and-the-south-west-on-sunday-as-industrial-action-by-drivers-union-looms.

South Western Railway have also advised that their services between London Waterloo and Exeter St Davids will be subject to major disruption and diversions. This is due to industrial action and major engineering work between Salisbury and Yeovil Junction. Services are likely to be extremely busy.

 

 

Free Christmas Events at Looe Library over the festive period, see the poster for further details.

Musical Memories Music Group at the Lighthouse Community Centre, see poster for  further details.