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Author opens children's space at library
10:00pm Sunday 7th December 2008

BESTselling children’s author Melvin Burgess met teenagers at the Central Library to open a special reading area for young bookworms.
HeadSpace is an initiative developed and run in partnership with young people and The Reading Agency, an independent charity which encourages people to read more.
Melvin, whose most famous books include Billy Elliot, Junk and Doing It, launched HeadSpace at noon on Saturday, before giving a talk about his inspiration and life as a best selling author.
Greeting his audience he said: “It’s nice to be in Swindon as I have never been here before, living in Reading I used to think all these places were the same but it’s good to be here and at the new library.”
About 30 youngsters attended the event adding to the 60,000 people who have already visited the £10m building since it opened in October. The award-winning building now proudly features a HeadSpace hub, where youngsters aged 11 to 19 can read, relax, surf the internet and use the eight computers to do their homework.
They can now also order drinks from the library’s volunteer book waiters – an idea generated by young library users.
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