> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wimbledon Library
> Sent: 19 August 2002 16:42
> To:
> Cc: Gordon Brewin
> Subject: Mainstreaming services
>
> Merton Library Service is currently reviewing its services to housebound
> readers. We'd like to pick the brains of any services that have operated
> housebound services from individual branch libraries, rather than from a
> central base. We'd also like to hear from any that considered the idea
> and then rejected it. So, here are the things we'd particularly like to
> know:-
>
> 1) Has anybody actually tried this?
>
> 2) Did it improve the service? (if so, how?)
>
> 3) What were the advantages?
>
> 4) What were the disadvantages?
>
> 5) Has the quality of service experienced by the users improved,
> deteriorated or stayed about the same?
>
> We would also be glad to hear any other comments, including other
> innovative ways of delivering services to housebound readers.
>
> While on this topic, do any other library services have useful definitions
> or interpretations of 'mainstreaming services'?
> When (did I hear you say 'if'?) you talk about mainstreaming services, do
> you mean running specialised services from individual libraries, or do you
> mean regarding them as core elements of the service, however you adminster
> them?
>
> And finally, to return to where we started, has anybody actually
> mainstreamed services to housebound readers?
>
> Please reply to [log in to unmask], marking your message for
> the attention of Wendy. If any interesting replies are received, I will
> try to summarise them for the list.
>
> Thank you for reading to the bottom.
>
> Wendy M. Siemaszko,
> Library Officer, Wimbledon Library, London Borough of Merton
>
>
>
> Wimbledon Library
> 35 Wimbledon Hill Road
> London SW19 7NB
>
> Tel: 020 8946 1136/7432
>
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