Resources

Handy Links for when it is your turn to select 3 books.

You will need to log in to the Cambridgeshire County Council Library website. You can use the following link:

https://ibistro.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/uhtbin/webcat

Log in with your card number for your own personal card and use the pin number.

To access the Reading Group site using the button Reading Groups at the top of the library website screen, or you can use the following link:

https://ibistro.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/jvOKYzVrqa/CAM/141540113/1/627/X/BLASTOFF

The link for choices for New Reading Groups is:

https://ibistro.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/COSQJrc28c/CAM/141540113/28/598/X

the link for Reading Group Favourites is:

https://ibistro.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/QGCrEhB9NN/CAM/141540113/28/597/X

These Reading Group booklists have loads of multiple copies.

To ensure you don’t select previously read books check the Books Read page from our own website where you can access the list of books previously read by our Group:

http://www.onlinedesignmakers.com/cityreaders/html/books_read.html

How to order books into Library Stock

As far as ordering new books / more copies into the Library, the Library have a stock selection meeting once a month at which they choose from what their Supplier has to offer, and catch most of the new stuff this way. Generally, if it's not something known to them but it looks good, they'll try a few hardbacks and then monitor how well they do before deciding how many paperbacks to buy.

In terms of our readers getting messages to the Library about what they'd like, this happens informally - customers will often make suggestions to Library staff which they then pass on the the Stock Team, and also formally through the Inter Library Loans system, in that every title that is requested as an Inter Library Loan is looked at by someone from the Stock team to see if it is something they should consider buying for the library’s stock.

There is also an online form to fill in if you want to suggest a book to the library.  Here is the link to the Not In Our Stock? webpage:

https://ibistro.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/izmg7Bt4CN/WEB/210130112/1/446/X/BLASTOFF

Areas of interest to reading group members:

Click here to link to the Cambridge Writers Website

Click here to link to the Cambridge Poets @ CB1 Website

Click here to link to the Love Libraries website