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HI Peter, I am just about to hand in a dissertation on how the mobile library can be used to provide other non book services. I have found some examples of mobiles with "meeting" areas and do have photos but not at work with me, one was the services for the Blind , which was really just a curtained area, the other was much nicer and used the drivers area with sand blasted glass screen which could be closed and the chairs moved around to form a seating area with a table build in over the engine, but for the life of me I can't remember who it was, but it was quite recent at a mobile meet. The next one is at Dewsbury in May, if you are interested Regards Karen Karen Newton Manager Washington Town Centre Library and Customer Service Centre Independence Square Washington NE38 7RZ 0191 561 3495 -----Original Message----- From: lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Philip Cooke Sent: 25 March 2010 17:07 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Flexible Mobile Libraries Dear All, We in Rochdale have secured funding to procure a new mobile library. Our new mobile library has to be much more than a traditional mobile library that visits older people and those with mobility problems. It will visit early years settings, offer Internet access and other common things. It needs to be used to its maximum potential and meet the needs of local communities. To this end, we want to try and introduce an area on the mobile that allows for confidential conversations to enable a variety of advice services to use the vehicle. E.g. welfare rights, Revenues and Benefits, health workers etc. Has anyone combined a confidential space, e.g. a room at the back of the vehicle, onto a 7.5 tonne mobile library? Can you contact me if you are aware of any vehicles that combine mobile library with a confidential area including seating that allow for advice sessions / computer training. Has anyone else tried to do what I outline above? If so, with what success? I will provide a summary to the list, if I receive some useful examples. Thanks Philip Philip Cooke Performance and Development Manager Customers and Communications Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council Wheatsheaf Library Baillie Street Rochdale OL16 1JZ Tel: (01706) 924889 [log in to unmask] www.rochdale.gov.uk/libraries This e-mail and any attached files are confidential and may also be legally privileged. They are intended solely for the intended addressee. If you are not the addressee please e-mail it back to the sender and then immediately, permanently delete it. Do not read, print, re-transmit, store or act in reliance on it. This e- mail may be monitored by Rochdale Council in accordance with current regulations. This footnote also confirms that this e-mail message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses currently known to the Council. However, the recipient is responsible for virus-checking before opening this message and any attachment. Unless otherwise stated, any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Rochdale Council. As a public body, the Council may be required to disclose this email and/or any response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 unless the information in the email and/or any response is covered by one of the exemptions in the Act.