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<v Speaker 1>Hello. I'm Ray Lee and this is the Gillingham Podcast

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<v Speaker 1>for anyone living in the Gillingham and Spa area. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>at Gillingham Library talking to Daniel Coleman about the new

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<v Speaker 1>extended Access program. Daniel, can you tell us about extending

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<v Speaker 1>access exactly what it is?

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<v Speaker 2>Yep? So extend Access is something new that a few

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<v Speaker 2>of our libraries now have. Gillingham is the third one

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<v Speaker 2>in the county to be able to offer this service.

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<v Speaker 2>It's where you'll be able to access the library from

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<v Speaker 2>a am to eight pm Monday to Saturday, so six

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<v Speaker 2>days a week. And you can do that even if

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<v Speaker 2>there's no staff in the building. It's just via a

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<v Speaker 2>swipe card system.

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<v Speaker 3>Right, yeah, So do you have to register for the service?

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<v Speaker 2>So you do have to go through a bit of

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<v Speaker 2>an induction, perhaps mostly online, but we can do in

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<v Speaker 2>person ones here at the library if you're not comfortable

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<v Speaker 2>with using that, you know the team here will know

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<v Speaker 2>things that they can ask them of those sort of

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<v Speaker 2>like niche questions you might have. So even if you've

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<v Speaker 2>done the online one, you're more than welcome to come

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<v Speaker 2>on in and still ask us some questions afterwards.

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<v Speaker 3>So how does it work?

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<v Speaker 2>So when you want to use it during extended access,

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<v Speaker 2>you come up to our front doors and part of

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<v Speaker 2>the induction you'll get shown what it is. But there's

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<v Speaker 2>like a swipe system basically near the front door that

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<v Speaker 2>you just scan your library card at and give a

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<v Speaker 2>pin number. You're then into the building. The doors will

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<v Speaker 2>magically open for you and you can then come on in.

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<v Speaker 2>The lights will automatically turn on for you. You will be

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<v Speaker 2>in there potentially with somebody else, if somebody else has

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<v Speaker 2>decided to use it at the same time as you,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's very very possible that you'll be in there

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<v Speaker 2>well on your own, in the piece and quiet.

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<v Speaker 3>So you obviously you need a new library card for

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<v Speaker 3>that is a special card.

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<v Speaker 2>Nope, so it's not a special card. It's anybody who

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<v Speaker 2>is already a member is able to sign up and

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<v Speaker 2>keep their current library card if you want to sign up,

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<v Speaker 2>it's specifically just to use it in extended access because

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<v Speaker 2>you can't currently make it in during our opening hours.

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<v Speaker 2>You're more than welcome to do that. It's exactly the

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<v Speaker 2>same card as anybody would.

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<v Speaker 3>Have, just books that you can take out or can

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<v Speaker 3>you do anything else.

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<v Speaker 2>So it's in terms of taking things out. It is

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<v Speaker 2>just your books. Some people have reservations to collect, other

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<v Speaker 2>people want to browse the shelves, but you'd be more

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<v Speaker 2>than welcome to come on in. We're obviously quite heated

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<v Speaker 2>with warm so the winter months are ying away now,

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<v Speaker 2>but come the end of the year, if you wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to come in and just sit inside for the warm

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<v Speaker 2>for a bit, you'd be more than welcome to. If

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<v Speaker 2>you wanted to meet with a group of friends and

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<v Speaker 2>just have somewhere free that you don't have to pay

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<v Speaker 2>any money to stay in, you'd be more than all

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<v Speaker 2>sign up and then come along that way.

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<v Speaker 1>Services did the library provide normal hours?

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<v Speaker 2>It's really everything. So there's obviously the book lending that's

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<v Speaker 2>kind of like our core offer. But we have a

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<v Speaker 2>large amount of events, so children's and adults, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>even just thinking today. We've had rhyme time this morning.

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<v Speaker 3>We've had an art.

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<v Speaker 2>Group in, We've got a bridge club that meet this afternoon,

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<v Speaker 2>and then throughout the week various other things lego, etc.

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<v Speaker 2>We have public computers, so people who maybe don't have

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<v Speaker 2>access to computer at the time, or perhaps need something

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<v Speaker 2>a bit of help with their digital skills. There's digital

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<v Speaker 2>champions that offer support to them. Yeah, it's really everything.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you wanted to use a computer, for instance,

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<v Speaker 1>would you have to book a slot or do you

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<v Speaker 1>just turn.

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<v Speaker 2>Out so you didn't have to book a slot. If

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<v Speaker 2>you wanted to guarantee yourself a bit of time, you

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<v Speaker 2>might want to sort of contact us and just let

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<v Speaker 2>us know that you'd like to use the computer, couple

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<v Speaker 2>of books, something out for you. You do need to

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<v Speaker 2>have either a library card or use a guest ticket

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<v Speaker 2>to do that. And if you are either signing up

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<v Speaker 2>for a library card or using a guest ticket, we

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<v Speaker 2>do normally need some sort of address or ID just

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<v Speaker 2>to make sure we can do that.

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<v Speaker 3>So this is obviously open to everybody who.

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<v Speaker 2>Lives in anybody anybody. You don't even have to live

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<v Speaker 2>in Gillingham. We get people from when Canton come in.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes we get people from other towns in Dorset who

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<v Speaker 2>are either up here for work or just happen to

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<v Speaker 2>be in the area.

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<v Speaker 3>So provided you've got your library card, well.

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<v Speaker 2>You are, and we're part of a consortium with other counties.

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<v Speaker 2>So if you're looking for a specific book that maybe

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<v Speaker 2>we don't have, there's a chance we can order that

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<v Speaker 2>in from another library like Canton or further afield like Bristol.

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<v Speaker 1>So if people want to know more about this new

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<v Speaker 1>extended access other than popping into the library and asking

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<v Speaker 1>is there any information online that they can access.

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<v Speaker 2>So on our Dorsic Council website, depending how familiar with it,

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<v Speaker 2>you might find the library's tab and be able to

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<v Speaker 2>go that way. But you can put in the search

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<v Speaker 2>bar extended Access on the Dorsal Library's website and it

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<v Speaker 2>will bring you to all the pages you could need,

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<v Speaker 2>and that includes information about what extended access is, what

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<v Speaker 2>you're able to do then, as well as the libraries

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<v Speaker 2>that offer it, and links to that online induction that

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<v Speaker 2>you can just get cracking.

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<v Speaker 3>That's great, well, lovely job. Thank you very much for

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<v Speaker 3>your time. Thank you.

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