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National Libraries Day 23rd January 2012
Anna Reid For Bloomsbury Season 13th January 2012
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23rd January 2012
National Libraries Day
More exciting news this week from the fabulous team behind National Libraries Day.
If you haven’t already saved the date make sure to put 4th February 2012 in your diary now – libraries across the UK will be celebrating National Libraries Day with a range of events for library users and supporters to enjoy.
The day is a celebration of the work done in school, college, university, workplace and public libraries to promote learning, literacy and the enjoyment of reading to all. It is supported by a range of twenty-five organisations including the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals, the Reading Agency, the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, library campaigners and publishers.
Library users new and old are being encouraged to go along to their local library and find out about the great services on offer – from book loans and homework clubs to advice on starting a business and how to get online. Regular users are being asked to bring a friend and give them the chance to speak to library staff and find out exactly what services are available locally.
National Libraries Day is a great reason to visit the library – whether it’s for the first time or you go every week. We want as many people as possible to discover something new about their local library and sign up for some of the great opportunities on offer. Even if people can’t make it to their library, they can still get access to a range of services through library websites.
Stay up to date by following their twitter and facebook, and updates on their website.
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13th January 2012
Anna Reid For Bloomsbury Season
Anna Reid continued the success of the Bloomsbury Season last night, with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Library team.
She spoke to an impressive and engaged crowd about her new novel, Leningrad: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44, which follows the three-year siege of Leningrad during World War II.
February is another great month for library events with upcoming talks from Romesh Gunesekara, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his first novel in 1994, and Stephen Kelman who was shortlisted in 2011, also for his debut novel.
For more details and for tickets, visit the website, and read Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English on our Childhood Shelf.
We hope that these events illustrate how partnerships between publishers and libraries can really enrich a community, bringing people together around a love of reading.
In order to grow this network, Public Library Online have teamed up with Google to offer libraries across the UK digital editions of books on ‘virtual bookshelves’ accessible on library terminals and online. The two shelves on offer are The Arden Shakespeare, with 10 plays that are on the GCSE National Curriculum and Our Environment, with 10 books including The Hot Topic by Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King. The project is sponsored by Google and run by Public Library Online.
Libraries will be able to join the programme throughout January 2012, with the shelves being made available through February 2013. Libraries that already have these shelves through the Public Library Online service will be able to pick from a range of alternate digital shelves. UK public libraries should email info@publiclibraryonline.com to begin their set up process as soon as possible.
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