 Could you volunteer at your library? Are you keen to learn new skills and meet new people? Volunteering is a great way to feel connected to your local community and to give back, developing work place skills or simply getting out of the house and making new friends.
At East Sussex libraries, there is a wide range of rewarding volunteer roles on offer.
 We are working with the National Literacy Trust to celebrate Storytelling Week.
Join us to meet Ramzee author and illustrator of the awesome and hilarious The Cheat Book! In The Cheat Book, Kamal is a refugee and struggles to fit in – until he finds a mysterious book in the library that promises to make him popular!
Ramzee came to the UK from Somalia as an asylum seeker. He is an award winning creative and has written comic books for 2000AD and Marvel!
 The Winter Mini Challenge is a fun online challenge that encourages children to keep up their reading throughout the winter months. It's an amazing confidence booster and the perfect thing to keep the reading momentum going.
 Feed your nostalgia with BFI Replay, a new service that takes thousands of digitised video and television programmes from the British Film Institute National Archive and makes them available for free, exclusively at your local library.
Come and delve into the recorded past for fun, discovery, nostalgia or research.
 Try something new in 2025, libraries have thousands of free Audiobooks available on our Libby and Borrowbox platforms.
Don’t let anyone tell you that audiobooks are cheating, or not really reading. Studies have shown that audiobooks stimulate the same areas of the brain and are just as easily recalled as print reading.
Audiobooks are great to have on the go, whilst cooking or commuting, when was the last time somebody read you a story?
Borrowbox and Libby give you access to lots of audiobooks and eBooks - the latest titles, award winners , non-fiction and the classics.
This month our quote is from The price of salt by Patricia Highsmith
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