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Crimewriter visits winning hospital staff
29 August 2010
Top American crimewriter Tess Gerritsen talked to 100 staff at the Royal Bolton Hospital about her latest book The Killing Place in August. The author event - surely a first for a hospital - was arranged by Transworld Publishers who worked with The Reading Agency and the Campaign for Learning to offer a prize draw for workplaces which ran both the Six Book Challenge and participated in Learning at Work Day.
"The event was a huge success and Tess was brilliant," reports librarian Paula Elliott. _"We've had lots of very positive feed back. Time to draw breath and then think about next year's Challenge - though how we top this remains to be seen!" _
Bolton Hospital library was one of 12 NHS libraries in the north-west that took part in the Six Book Challenge in 2010. The scheme has encouraged all these libraries to include more fiction titles alongside their large clinical stock and thus attract a wider range of readers.
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"NHS library information services in the North West have seen a lot of interest in the Six Book Challenge this year. The results have been good and it is a great scheme to show people what libraries can offer." _David Stewart, director of health libraries North West
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