Shropshire Libraries invite you to celebrate Libraries Week
Libraries Week is a week-long celebration of the nation’s much-loved libraries taking place 7 – 12 October. During this week Shropshire Council’s library service will be holding events and hit the road with a Roadshow to ask the question ‘what’s next for Shropshire Libraries?’
During Libraries Week, Shropshire Libraries and Shropshire Council’s education improvement service early years team are launching new resources to support parents to enjoy talking and reading to their babies and young children.
The Let’s Get Ready book bags have been developed as part of the Year of Making Language Matter. This is a Shropshire initiative in response to the Government’s goal to halve the number of children leaving reception year without the appropriate level of communication and language skills, by 2018. The bags are available to borrow from any library.
Lezley Picton, Cabinet member for culture, leisure, waste and communications, said:
“There’s always lots going on in libraries but Libraries Week is a great opportunity to get involved, whether that’s coming along to one of the roadshows or joining in with an event or activity.
“Check with your local library to find out what’s happening.”
Events with Shropshire Libraries
Go digital at Ellesmere Library
Find out what’s online: ebooks & magazines, Facebook, Ancestry.com, Patient App service with Medical Practice.
Tuesday 8 October 2019 from 10am -2pm
Human Library at the Ludlow Library
The things you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask… this is a social change event with a difference.
Join our Human Library and take out one of our living books. Just like in a real library, a visitor can choose a book from a range of titles. Our books are people, and reading is a conversation.
This is part of an international movement that promotes social contact to challenge prejudice, exclusion and discrimination.
Wednesday 9 October, 2019 from 2pm to 4pm
Let’s Get Ready story time at Oswestry Library
Join Oswestry Library for a special story time to celebrate the launch of our ‘Let’s Get Ready’ book bags, preparing pre-school children for daily life through books.
The bags will be available to borrow free of charge from all Shropshire Libraries.
This is a free event suitable for families with pre-school children.
Friday 11 October 2019 from 2pm to 2.45pm
Have your say on the future of Shropshire Libraries
Shropshire Council have launched a public consultation about refreshing the library strategy so the new version can reflect local priorities and needs.
The consultation will be available to complete online and will be run until 8 November 2019.
Join Shropshire Libraries for their roadshow at one of six libraries across the county from 7 – 11 October 2019.
- Oswestry Library – Monday 7 October, 10am to 3/4pm
- Bridgnorth Library – Tuesday 8 October, 10am to 3pm
- Ludlow Library – Wednesday 9 October, 10am to 3pm
- Shrewsbury Library – Thursday 10 October, 10am to 3pm
- Whitchurch Library – Friday 11 October,10am to 1pm
- Market Drayton Library – Friday 11 October, 1pm to 4pm
Michael Lewis, library service manager for Shropshire Council, said:
“We’re keen for people to have their say about the future pathway for the library service and these roadshows are just one of the ways that we’ll be connecting with library users and non-users over the coming months. Come along to give us your views about library services and what you think our priorities should be.”
To find out more information about what is happening in your local library please visit https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/libraries/.
Over half the UK population has a library card and nearly 10 million are active borrowers.
Libraries Week is a showcase of the best that UK libraries of all kinds have to offer and encourages everyone to discover what their library can do for them. Using the library is also good for our health, with regular users reporting better health that saves the NHS in England £27.5m a year and reporting higher life satisfaction, happiness and sense of purpose in life compared to non-users.
Join in the #LibrariesWeek conversation and find out more on the Libraries Week website. @librariesweek
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