Book Week Scotland is taking place this year from Monday 19 – Sunday 25 November 2018. Celebrate the love of books and reading and join us at the fantastic events we have planned in our libraries. An Evening of Genealogy and Mystery with Author Tom McKerley Monday 19 November, 7pm at Carnegie Library Do you […]
Read More Book Week Scotland Events 2018Come along to our free local drop-in clinic to: Pick up your hearing aid batteries Get your tubing changed (recommended every 4-6 months) Find out how to care for your hearing aids Learn about different local services available to you Learn about different products and equipment that can help. Please note we are unable to […]
Read More Do you wear an NHS hearing aid? Come along to the free drop in clinics at your local libraryAre you ready for a fun extravaganza? An explosion of art and creativity? Then come and join us for our library festival at Ayr’s Carnegie Library. Following on from National Libraries Week the celebrations continue in South Ayrshire, with a week-long festival of exciting free events for all the family. Uncover the Past in our […]
Read More Library Festival at Ayr’s Carnegie Library 13 – 19 October 2018Visit your local library to celebrate this year’s Libraries Week and find out what your library service can offer you… Groups and Clubs Make new friends or learn something new at one of our groups and clubs. From knitting groups to Scrabble clubs, a monthly Film Club to Coffee and Chat groups there really is […]
Read More My time. My space. My library. Libraries Week 8-13 OctoberJoin us for some spooktacular FREE craft fun in our libraries this autumn. Alloway Library Tel: 01292 442395 Tuesday 16 October 2018, 2.30pm – 3.30pm BOO-king is required. Suitable for ages 5-12 years. Forehill Library Tel: 01292 265591 Monday 29 October 2018, 3.45pm – 4.45pm BOO-king is required. Suitable for ages 5-12 years. Girvan Library Tel: 01465 […]
Read More Spooky Craft Events in our Libraries 👻 💀🎃🕸We have a small exhibition of ballroom dresses currently on display in Carnegie Library’s non-fiction lending department. These colourful dresses are kindly on loan from Janet Stirling, who wore them when she danced as an amateur with her husband George and also as a member of the West of Scotland team on the original BBC […]
Read More Rhinestones & Diamontes Ballroom Dress ExhibitionBooks have often been challenged, banned, or burned for many reasons: the Harry Potter series because it ‘promoted witchcraft’; George Orwell’s novels because ‘he was a communist’; The Lord of the Flies because ‘it implies that Man is little more than an animal’. Celebrate your freedom to read them during Banned Book Week. The Color […]
Read More Beware of the Book! It’s Banned Books Week
