 Homework Help - photo: Pixnio
Monday to Friday 3.30pm to 4.30pm
Lambeth Library staff are here to support children and young people with their homework. If you have an enquiry with your homework, please contact us online at Ask a Librarian.
 Lambeth Libraries Literary Lockdown
Wednesdays 5pm to 6pm
Lambeth Libraries book quiz to entertain and test your literary brain. Email brixtonlendinglibrary@lambeth.gov.uk for your invitation and password.
 Book break
A shared reading group experience from the comfort of your own home. Our librarians will read from a novel, a short story or poem and then we'll stop and talk about what we have read. There is no need to read aloud or speak - it's fine to just listen or to chat about books.
Wednesdays 9.30am. Durning Library with Edwin. Contact Edwin at EEMacrae@lambeth.gov.uk for meeting ID.
Thursdays 10.30am. Brixton Library with Andrew. Contact Andrew at AOBrien@lambeth.gov.uk for meeting ID.
 Saturdays 2.30pm to 3.30pm
Young people - exchange ideas, discuss your interests and hobbies and share advice with other like-minded teens. You can talk about what’s happening in the world, politics and fads, books and ideas... Join Rachel on Saturday, email her for meeting ID and details RMcglinchey@lambeth.gov.uk
 Saturdays 4pm
Sundays 2.45pm
Code Club for children aged 9-13. It provides step-by-step activity sheets to create games, animations, and websites, learning the key concepts of coding at the same time. Join Abby and Ana on Sunday, email for meeting ID and details ARodriguezPanadero@lambeth.gov.uk
 Kanopy
Get free access to thousands of movies with your library card. Simply register at Lambeth Kanopy and please use all the letters and numbers on your library card with no spaces.
 Film Club
Saturdays 7pm
We choose the film, you hit play at 7pm. Tweet along with @lamlibs or send us a tweet sized review using #LamLibsWatchParty. Check the latest film under discussion on our Twitter.
 Online reading group
Our Reading Groups have gone online
bringing people together to discuss a particular book. Don't miss our weekly get-together's.
You can find more information about each of the groups and what they are discussing on your local library Facebook page or email me at todell@lambeth.gov.uk. All welcome.
 Looking for a good book to share? Check out our Reading Group blog where readers review and share their book thoughts and why not submit your own review #LockDownReading, email libraries@lambeth.gov.uk.
 RB Digital
With your library card you can use our e-library for free, just go to www.lambeth.gov.uk/LibraryServicesOnline. When logging in use all letters in your library card number 'LMP'.
We've got thousands of eBooks, Audiobooks, Magazines and Comics to download and they're all free. Get the RBDigital app on your phone, iPad or tablet, or access the website on a PC or laptop and start listening or reading straight away!
You’ll find some amazing eBooks longlisted for some of the most prestigious book prizes available to download on RBDigital. Here are some of our favourites.
 Prize nominated books on RB Digital
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 West Indian service men, including Lambeth resident Allan Wilmot, at RAF training camp in Yorkshire taken in 1944 after his arrival. Photocredit Windrush Foundation
Over the Bank Holiday weekend, Lambeth Archives will be showcasing a series of historical images from its collections on Twitter, photographs that capture the lives of ordinary people in Lambeth in the lead-up to the celebrations of May 1945, and also commemorating the contribution of the servicemen from the West Indies, many of whom then went on to live in Lambeth after the war.
 Polish Heritage Day
Saturday 9 May - Twitter @Lamlibs
For Polish Heritage Day historian, author and journalist Clare Mulley joins @HistoryHack to talk about female SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek, AKA Christine Granville. We were planning to host Clare, award-winning biographer of The Spy Who Loved with @polesconnect celebrating #PolishHeriatgeDay. Unfortunately this had be cancelled but you can still enjoy listening to the remarkable secret life of extremely charismatic British female WWII special agent Christine Granville with History Hack.
 Julie Wheelwright
Monday 18 May, 7pm
Sisters in Arms: female warriors from antiquity to the new millennium. Local author Julie Wheelwright discusses her new book, bringing alive stories from the Scythian women who begat the myth of the Amazons to passing women of the eighteenth century and the re-emergence of women in today's armed forces. Organised by the Friends of Durning Library.
Contact Liz on LBuchanan@lambeth.gov.uk for meeting ID and log in details.
 Instagram
You can find Lambeth Libraries on Instagram! Check out some of the fantastic videos and pictures that are being posted there, why not join us by sharing your favourites too. Highlights include:
Our Book of the week chosen by your local librarian and read to your child every Monday at 4pm.
Virtual Code Club challenge - cool things to get you investigating coding with your Librarian every Tuesday at 4.30pm.
Book inspired Arts and Craft Club sessions every Thursday at 4pm.
Join Joy Rhoades, an award-winning writer of historical fiction, in her creative writing podcast broadcast on Lambeth Libraries' Instagram. Designed particularly for writers beginning their path in creative writing, Joy is recording the podcast weekly with writers and learner writers under lockdown in mind, to provide some creative diversion.
 Wriggle and Rhyme
Lambeth Libraries brings your Wriggle and Rhyme live in your home!
Join our librarians for songs, stories and rhymes for the under 5s.
Monday to Friday (excluding Bank Holidays) 10.30am to 11am
Facebook live everyday @ Facebook/Lambeth Libraries: Wriggle and Rhyme Online.
 Fridays 11am
An online get together for parents, grandparents, child minders or nannies to develop support networks within a safe space. A weekly chat to touch base and support each other, with a simple smile from a familiar face, a chat or shared tear and hopefully some giggles.
Email Tina at tfellows@lambeth.gov.uk for the meeting ID and invite
 Lambeth Archives
A series of online Lambeth history talks by the staff of Lambeth Archives
Tuesday 5 May 1.15pm to 2pm
A Place of Public execution.
The gallows at Kennington and other former execution sites in Lambeth. (Jon Newman)
Thursday 14 May 6.45pm to 7.30pm Lambeth in Literature.
How this part of South London has been represented by writers as diverse as William Blake, Charles Dickens, Jake Arnott and Alex Wheatle. (Jon Newman)
Tuesday 19 May 1.15pm to 2pm Lambeth’s history online.
An introduction to some of the main online sources for researching Lambeth's history and how to access them. (Len Reilly)
Thursday 28 May 6.45pm to 7.30pm
A walk around Waterloo.
A virtual walk around the Waterloo area. (Len Reilly)
To book a place and receive log-in details, email archives@lambeth.gov.uk
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