National Year of Reading: Rhythm and Rhyme
July’s theme is Rhythm and Rhyme. It’s time to celebrate poetry
and music in you local library.
Online Resource Spotlight: Grove Music (Oxford Music
Online)
Our 24 Hour Library allows Vale of
Glamorgan Library members to view a range of information books and
resources online. Many of these databases can be accessed from any
internet PC when you type your library card number. Each month we
will spotlight one of these resources to tie in with the NYR
theme.
This month we spotlight Grove Music (now
redesigned and available through Oxford Music Online. It is
one of the most authoritative music reference resources available.
It comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and
Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
People using a Vale library PC can
also find out more about their favourite authors and poets through
Lion (Literature Online Reference Edition), the essential companion
to literary study.
The following services are offered by our libraries
Music CDs
You can loan music CDs ( for a charge of approximately 50p per 3
weeks) from Barry, Penarth and Cowbridge Library. Search our
catalogue to find out
what CDs are available.
Clap, Tap and Rhyme Sessions
Throughout term time a programme of Clap, Tap and Rhyme sessions take place in our
libraries. The sessions are for preschool children and their
carers. They aim to help families make sharing books together fun
and encourage the reading habit in children as early as
possible.
Suggested Reading:
Poetry
- Book of nonsense and nonsense songs by Edward Lear
- Dear mum: poems for mums and their babies by Pam Ayres
- Dylan Thomas omnibus: Under Milk Wood, poems, stories and
broadcasts by Dylan Thomas
- Hey Fatman by Robert Minhinnick
- Sporting relation by Roger McGough
Music
- I hate myself and want to die: the 52 most depressing songs
you've ever heard by Tom Reynolds
- Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain by Oliver
Sacks
- Rough guide to reading music and basic theory by Hugo
Pinksterboer