 We celebrate the wonder of libraries every week, but National Libraries Week is 8th-13th October. So we will be marking this official week with a number of special events taking place in libraries around the county, in addition to all our regular activities.
You can meet an author – Alison Bruce in Great Shelford, Hilary Swaine in Wisbech, Mandy Morton in St Ives and Peter Murphy in Huntingdon.
In March we will be celebrating 60 years since the publication of the first Paddington Bear story, with a Birthday Party full of stories, crafts, cake, and of course, marmalade sandwiches!
There will also be a Book Trail around March Town throughout the week, so turn detective and see how many book covers you can find!
Have you ever wished to Train as a Jedi? Well Yaxley and Sawtry Libraries will become training centres for the Jedi Order, so come and test whether you have the skills to earn your own light sabre!
In Ramsey you can explore the wonders of Ancestry and in Cambridge Central Library you can discover all about the Cambridge Suffragette Movement* with Cambridgeshire Collection Staff member, Mary, and local author Sue Slack. Cambridge Central will also be celebrating the joy of reading, sharing stories and generally being a Bookworm.
You can find
details of all these events in the Autumn What’s
on in Cambridgeshire Libraries brochure, available from your local library,
or by logging on to www.cambridgeshire.net
[*This talk will take place 2-3pm - the timing had not been
confirmed when the brochure went to press. **See posters in March Library and
social media for details]
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 Join us in Fenland as two of our libraries become Fun
Palaces for the day on Saturday 6 October.
In March Library you can create your own Palace from Lego
10-11am, then learn how to craft one from recycled materials 2-3.30pm, or why
not make your Family Tree 11am-12pm. There are new hobbies to discover through our Art Taster session 12-1pm
with The Other Art Group, or by watching the local Ukulele Band perform 2-3pm.
At Wisbech between 10am-12pm you can learn how to use a metal
detector to find buried ‘treasure’; try your hand at quilting and banner making
or create your unique DNA Sequence Bracelet.
Everything is free!
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 We are pleased to be launching the new Reading Well for mental health book collection on 10 October, World Mental Health Day. These books will be available to borrow, or reserve in all our libraries and via our online catalogue- scroll down to find “Reading Well for mental health” with
easy access to all these titles.
Reading Well for mental health collection provides helpful
information and support for managing common mental health conditions, or for dealing
with difficult feelings and experiences. Some books also include personal
stories from people who are living with or caring for someone with mental
health needs.
The books in this collection were selected by health
professionals and some of the titles are specifically endorsed as suitable for
supporting treatment by the NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies
programme.
As well as Reading Well for mental health, Cambridgeshire libraries also have the following well-being-related book collections, please
ask for further information in your local library: -
- Books on
Prescription - Reading Well for dementia
- Shelf
Help - Reading Well for young people
- Reading
Well for long term conditions
- The Cambridgeshire
Autism Collection
If you are a health professional based in Cambridgeshire and
would like to recommend this resource to your service users, please email: HPResources@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
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This autumn we have a mini authors-on–tour with Nicola Upson
and Mandy Morton. Mandy will be talking about her feline detective Hetty
Bagshott at Great Shelford library on 28 November at 2pm, Linton on 8 October at
2pm as part of the Engage programme and St. Ives on 10 October at 2pm.
Mandy is joined by Nicola Upson for their brand new Malice
Domestic event where they share the joys and pains of sharing a house with a
fellow crime writer. They will be
appearing at Cambourne Library on 5 December at 2pm (Engage), Huntingdon on 2 November
2 2-3.30pm and Wisbech on 4 December 6.30 for 7pm.
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Black History Month is held each year in October, with a programme that promotes the history and contributions that African, Caribbean, Asian and other BAME communities have made to Cambridgeshire and the UK.
Tuck into a good read for Black History Month, with this selection
of books celebrating
black authors and achievements in Black History.
View the full book selection HERE.
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Why not drop into your library and ask about
opportunities to get online? You might try downloading a newspaper or magazine
to read on a tablet or a computer...
Ask a member of staff for information about
services and courses available to help you get started.
#try1thing
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 We had almost 7,000 children
joining the challenge this year, and just under 4,000 children finishing –
congratulations to all of you! Our star
library was Cambridge Central where over 760 children took part.
Award ceremonies have been
taking place across our libraries. We are delighted that many have been
attended by county and local councillors and we would like to thank them for
their support. And we must also say thank you to the 190 young volunteers who
helped us run ‘Mischief Makers’ this summer – their help has been invaluable.
All our libraries have been
really busy this summer, with over 170 different events and activities taking
place – from ‘Meet an author’, ‘Comic book art’, to ‘Making pirate hats and
swords’.
To quote one of the children who
took part in ‘Mischief Makers’: “I loved
it and I am going to do it next year!”
Photo: Award ceremony at St Neots Library on Saturday 22 September
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 Thanks to the kind support of Huntingdon Town Council,
Huntingdon Library now offer the i-Newspaper in addition to
our other newspaper publications, to read in the library for free.
The Town Council are also sponsoring the purchase of two children’s
publications, First News and Aquila; First News is a weekly newspaper for 7 - 14 year olds and Aquila is a fun and educational children’s magazine. These
publications are available to view in the library and will be used to enhance
our Homework Club offer, which runs in term times on Wednesday evenings from
4.00 pm.
Don’t forget to let us know what you think about our new publications,
by completing a feedback form when you visit Huntingdon Library.
Photo: Cllr Tom Sanderson with member of staff at Huntingdon Library
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St. Ives Library has an intriguing new event –Reading Aloud a storytime for adults.
Sit back, relax, unwind, listen to stories and more, meet new friends, learn something new too.
Join us on Tuesday 16 October and Tuesday 20 November 2-3pm at St Ives Library. The theme for October is Autumn, November is Remembrance.
This is a FREE event with refreshments – donations are welcome.
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To celebrate National Dyslexia Awareness Week
(1st-7th October) Cambridge Central, Huntingdon and Ely
will be hosting a collection of books about Dyslexia for Children, Parents and
Adults.
Cambridgeshire Libraries has worked
with the British Dyslexia Association and Indigo (a local charity that gives
information and advice) to produce this collection that includes dyslexia-friendly
fiction, mostly for children, as well as biographies of people with this
learning difficulty.
Copies of the books on the list will be
bought for libraries throughout the county, however, the titles catalogued as Dyslexia-Friendly will be available to
reserve for free so you can access them through your local library - please see
the full Book List HERE.
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 The power of poetry to uplift and inspire will be celebrated
in a showcase of new poems created for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust on this year’s National Poetry Day (4 October).
A new
booklet of poems ‘Taking Note - Poetry Moments’ has been commissioned for the
hospital community, together with cards and bookmarks. Offering glimpses into
some of the extraordinary worlds found in Addenbrooke’s Hospital, these poems
are for everyone whether visitor, patient or member of staff. A specially bound
copy of the booklet will also available to loan from each of the 34
Cambridgeshire Libraries in the county. The poems and more about the project
can be found at www.cambridgecandi.org.uk.
The project has been
produced for the Addenbrooke’s community by Addenbrooke’s Arts and arts and
well-being charity Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination, with the support of
Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust.
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