October 23, 2019
New Users Inspired to Join The Great Welsh Libraries Read Together
Did you take part in our ‘Great Welsh Libraries Read Together’? What were your favourite titles? During Libraries Week this year, 226 new readers joined our reading campaign across Wales, with a total of 8,259 eBook & eAudio loans! Our unique campaign titles available during Libraries Week were: David Baldacci – The Memory Man (eAudio […]
Read moreOctober 9, 2019
Join in the Great Welsh Libraries Read Together!
To coincide with this year’s Libraries Week theme of ‘Celebrating Libraries in a Digital World’, we have launched a special shared reading campaign: ‘The Great Welsh Libraries Read Together / Cyd-ddarllen Cymru! Trwy eich Llyfrgell Chi!’ We have arranged with our eBook & eAudioBook service Borrowbox to have 5 campaign titles made available. Campaign titles […]
Read moreAugust 9, 2019
Books Can Be the Best Medicine : Reading Well Prescriptions in Wales
The Welsh Government are supporting The Reading Agency to deliver Reading Well in all 22 library authorities in Wales. Reading Well supports individuals in understanding and managing their health and wellbeing using helpful reading. The books are all endorsed by health experts, as well as people living with the conditions covered and their relatives and […]
Read moreJuly 16, 2019
Children in Wales Make Space for Reading as Summer Reading Challenge Prepares for Lift-Off
Get ready to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Summer Reading Challenge with Space Chase, a very special reading mission. The Deputy Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism, Lord Elis-Thomas, launched the challenge in Newtown Library on Friday, 12 July 2019, and was joined by popular author and illustrator Max Low. This year’s Summer Reading […]
Read moreMay 22, 2019
£1 million for museums, archives and libraries in Wales
In addressing the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Wales Annual Conference today, the Deputy Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism, Lord-Elis-Thomas, announced that museums, archives and libraries in Wales will benefit from nearly £1 million Welsh Government capital funding to develop and enhance their facilities and services. The Transformation Capital Grant Programme […]
Read moreMay 31, 2018
E-books and e-audio books
The Welsh e-books service has changed supplier since the 1st May 2018. We have moved to BorrowBox as the sole supplier of e-books and e-audiobooks for Welsh public libraries. With our new provider you will be getting a bigger, better collection and a user-friendly app. Click here to find out more and to join the […]
Read moreMay 25, 2018
Minister announces £1.35m for museums, archives and libraries in Wales
During a visit to Glamorgan Archives on 22 May 2018, the Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism, Lord Elis-Thomas, announced that museums, archives and libraries in Wales will benefit from over £1.35 million Welsh Government capital funding to develop and enhance their facilities and services. The Transformation Capital Grant Programme is supporting, museums, archives and […]
Read moreMay 24, 2018
Make some me-time this autumn in your library
Libraries across Wales will be coming alive this October and showing how they can play a key role in our wellbeing. Across the country, libraries will be hosting guest authors and illustrators, group reading sessions, educational and literacy activities, musical events and much more to entice you during Libraries Week (8-13 October). Libraries Week is […]
Read moreApril 24, 2018
Official opening of Bala Library
The new-look Bala Library has officially reopened to the public following refurbishment funded by a grant from the Welsh Government’s capital grants programme. The library returns to its original location on the site of Ysgol y Berwyn in the town following a temporary relocation to the Penllyn Leisure Centre whilst refurbishment work was taking place. […]
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