Welcome to the Four new organisations that have recently signed up as members of SWRLS:

Exeter College (SWRLS code 140)

Farnborough College of Technology (SWRLS code 139)

National Meteorological Library and Archive (SWRLS code 138)

South Devon College (SWRLS code 141)

SWRLS continues to grow, and now with 55 memebers it is always interested to hear from any other library related organisation that may wish to join us. Contact us by emailing director@swrls.org.uk for more details

This new South West Literature charity is now recruiting Trustees.

For further details and to download an application form, go to the new website at http://www.cypruswell.org/

 or contact: Cyprus Well on 01392 384315

Applications are due in by 17th July 2009. Informal interviews will be held at the Arts Council England, South West in Exeter on Thursday 23rd July 2009.

See the photos on our photo gallery!

Swindon’s £10million Central Library in Regent Circus has been officially opened by HRH The Princess Royal. The building, which was given the accolade of Most Sustainable Building in the South-west last week by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in their 2009 regional awards, has boosted the number of visitors using Swindon’s town centre library by 45% since it was opened to the public in October 2008.

Congratulations to the new Swindon Central Library which has won a green award at the 2009 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) South West awards.

The children’s story pod, (see it in the SWRLS photo gallery), at the library, won the Sustainability category.
As a category winner, the centre now automatically goes forward to the RICS national awards, winners of which will be announced in October and are presented by Kevin McCloud of Channel 4’s Grand Designs programme.

A new service to include pictures from SWRLS members and SWRLS events has been added to the site to allow sharing of resources.

Further pictures of each topic may be available, please contact the Director@swrls.org.uk for more information

You can now view copies of the presentations and the evaluation survey made at "Access all Areas", the E Resources seminar held last December, via this link to the Media Fire file sharing service http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2ebbc7e6d2906ed31f8e0fff488e27e05a1d92e5753d59f9c95965eaa7bc68bc

There are 7 files in all, click on individual titles to download.