Leicester's Book Doctor Alison Dunne spent some days and nights at the museum and reported what she found to the Leicester Mercury.

One of the great things about working for Leicester libraries is the opportunity for partnership and one recent weekend was a great example of that.

Libraries were one of the partners in The Lyric Lounge, an amazing festival that took over New Walk Museum for three days and nights.

If you thought poetry might be a bit dull, then you would definitely have had your ideas challenged at The Lyric Lounge.

Dozens of volunteers had trained for weeks to deliver 'happenings', meant to surprise members of the public and get them involved.

Around the museum you could see volunteers dressed up as a poetry fridge inviting people to make fridge poetry, or running a poetry restaurant where willing diners sat down to a three-course meal of poetry specially written for the occasion.

If you passed New Walk Museum you might have seen jugglers and stilt-walkers outside, tempting you in.

Once inside you might have taken part in any number of activities relating to poetry, including knitting, drawing and dancing.

So what was the Book Doctor's role in all this? I have been asked many times, what does a Book Doctor do? Some people even think I make books better when their covers have fallen off.

But the Book Doctor's job is all about getting people involved in reading and libraries.

During the weekend of The Lyric Lounge, I talked to lots of people about poetry and about their reading. Leicester Libraries' Lyric Lounge collection of poetry was picked up and read by lots of visitors to the museum cafe.

I was compere at the Lyrical Lunchtime on the first day where lots of people read one of their own poems followed by a performance by Leicester's own poet and Lyric Lounge patron, Jean 'Binta' Breeze.