 Join the 2660 children who’ve already signed up for the Gadgeteers Summer Reading Challenge!
You can sign up at any library or online and will receive your Collector’s Poster, welcome sticker and bookmark. You’ll then be ready to start reading, reviewing and collecting stickers, some of which are scratch & sniff. Collect all 6 stickers by reading at least six books over the holidays and you will be awarded a special certificate and medal.
Don’t forget we have Gadgeteer-themed activities happening in your library this summer, see our What’s On brochure or visit Library Live | What's On
What is Open+?
Open+ means you can access the library at specific times outside of usual staffed hours.
The Open+ library system provides:
- access to free Wi-Fi
- access to full range of stock and self-service issue and returns
- access to PCs, printers and photocopiers
- comfortable study and leisure space
- meeting room hire (speak to a member of staff)
Watch our video https://youtu.be/f8Y4JFC7SaY and read all about how Open+ works here:
Open+ is available now at Histon and St Ives, and is coming to more libraries soon.
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Bookstart is for every child.
If you have a pre-school child with additional needs, you can now borrow a special Bookstart SEN pack from the library to support their development.
BookTouch for babies and toddlers with a visual impairment, BookShine for babies with a hearing impairment and BookStar for toddlers with conditions affecting their fine motor skills.
Each pack has two touch-and-feel books, guidance around sharing books and a booklist of wonderful titles specially created for children with additional needs.
Ask in your library or search our online catalogue.
Books in packs may vary from image.
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Stop me and buy one: Ice cream man outside 18 High Street, Burwell identified as Arthur Hayes. Cambridgeshire Collection Ref. PC.ICE.K33 2812
This photo from the 1930s is in the Cambridgeshire Collection. The Collection holds over 80,000 separately indexed items including images of places, people and events across the whole county.
Find out about the collection here:
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We have a collection of laptops and tablets with Mifi devices that you can borrow for 7 days at a time. You can renew your loan if we don’t have customers waiting. You need to be a member of Cambridgeshire Libraries to use this service.
You can connect to the internet using CambWifi hotspots around Cambridgeshire. Information is included with every device.
We have added Ukrainian and Russian language options and virtual Ukrainian/Russian keyboards are installed on the laptop’s home screen.
Laptops are held at our bigger libraries and can be delivered to any of our 33 libraries. Please ask at your library if you'd like to know more.
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Eager to explore ideas and issues? Open to different points of view?
Cambridgeshire Libraries invites you to discover compelling literary conversations and talks, free to stream through the British Library’s Living Knowledge Network.
In your own time, tune in to a range of events recorded by the British Library featuring authors as varied as Bernadine Evaristo, Chris Riddell, Val McDermid and Benjamin Zephaniah, to name just a few.
All free to enjoy at home.
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Visit our YouTube channel and stream Cambridgeshire Libraries straight to your phone, tablet or TV. We've got a wide array of videos from rhymetimes and crafts to keep your little ones entertained, to talks to learn about local history, and top ten countdowns to find new books to love.
Subscribe to our channel so that you never miss an upload and click the bell icon to be notified when we post a new video.
 Click on the button below to take a look at our selection of new books for August.
Top Pick: This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
Award-winning actor, creator of a myriad of memorable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes is a national treasure. Now, at last, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story. And it's far richer and stranger than any part she's played. Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to her being known as the naughtiest girl Oxford High School ever had; how she ended up posing nude for Augustus John aged 17, being sent to Coventry by Monty Python and the Goodies and swearing on University Challenge. This book is packed with unforgettable stories from why Bob Monkhouse was the best (male) kiss she's ever had to being told off by the Queen.
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 Our Cambridgeshire Listens and Cambridgeshire Reads collections bring you a wide range of books to borrow in eBook or eAudiobook format. Multiple use, they're great for reading groups and workplace reads.
Each month the selection of adult, young adult and children's titles refresh - they're available to borrow over a 60 day period. Try the links to look at this month's offerings. We have 12 titles available as both Reads and Listens this month including How to Stop Time by Matt Haig, The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley, Luster by Raven Leilani and Nameless by Jessie Keane.
 We also have 7 adult fiction and non fiction titles and 1 teen fiction title available as just Listens including The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, The Gray Man by Mark Greaney, The Electric Kingdom by David Arnold and Exit by Belinda Bauer.
Junior Titles
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Listen to a variety of stories, poems and literature for adults. Free to join, hosted on Zoom, virtual ticket required. Join us from the comfort of your own home.
All it is to be Human
Tuesday 2nd 2-3pm
We will be exploring the representation of the human body and health through a variety of literature!
Books into Films
Tuesday 16th 2-3pm
Roll into the world of films based on books with us!
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All events are free to join, hosted on Zoom, virtual ticket required.
If you are interested in virtually attending any of these events, or have any questions then please contact us. You can email the Read a Little Aloud team at:
RALA.Online@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
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The annual 10 Minute Shake Up is back! The campaign aims to inspire children to build confidence in being active, develop physical skills, feel good and most importantly have fun!
Children and young people should have a total of at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity each day. But many are not achieving this recommended target. The 10 Minute Shake Up fun games break this hour down into manageable chunks for both kids and adults, making it both achievable and enjoyable.
Search 10 Minute Shake Up now!
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