It’s been an exciting time at Barnsley Libraries in our first year as an NPO, the team have worked hard to reach new audiences, diversify art forms, host an inaugural Book Festival and bring new experiences to Libraries across the borough.📚

ACE North Arts Council England

Thank you to everyone who joined me at The Lightbox Barnsley Libraries today. Jeffrika 🦒 and I had a wonderful time reading our story and we love the little giraffes everyone made! #giraffes #libraries #reading 💙🧡

Jeffrika has had a marvellous time this evening at The Lightbox Barnsley Libraries Thank you to everyone who came to hear his story! #GawberReading

Join public historian Josh Daniels on Wednesday for the first of our Healthy Heritage Tours: my.barnsley.gov.uk/events/45195/g…
All welcome
Libraries Connected

We are incredibly excited to announce the theme for this year's Summer Reading Challenge! Marvellous Makers is a celebration of creative arts and we are already planning amazing Summer activities for families across Barnsley Libraries.
#MarvellousMakers #BarnsleyLibraries

Take a break this Creativity & Wellbeing Week at our lunchtime concert at Library @ the Lightbox with jazz quartet Oma’s Apotheke!

Friday 24th May
Library @ the Lightbox on the ground floor 12 - 1pm
Free but book to secure your place: Barnsley.gov.uk/libraryevents

Today is #NationalBSLDay 🙌🏻 - here is a great video from Amy-Rose Atkinson signing Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’.

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Join us at the offical reopening of Royston Library after its refurbishment on Friday 26 April 2024!

- Children's Crafts 1pm-4.30pm
- Story And Rhyme Session at 2.15pm

We can't wait to see you there!

A fitting video to watch again on Shakespeare’s birthday!

Shakespeare B Trust 🎂

Sunday afternoons were made for reading newspapers.
Access PressReader via the #Libbyapp to find your favourite tabloid or broadsheet from home or abroad.

So proud to have been part of this! Barnsley Libraries

Wonderful new poem from Ian McMillan (thank you, Ian!) celebrating the recent Barnsley Book Festival Barnsley Libraries which was truly amazing. This really captures the joy, pleasure, and excitement generated ❤️ Libraries Connected

We're still reliving some of the #BarnsleyBookFestival highlights! 🤩

We teamed up with poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan who has written Speaking Volumes to reflect on and celebrate the first-ever edition, and we are very excited to share this with you!

#LetsCreate Arts Council England

Making plans today about our wonderful NPO pilot project with Barnsley Libraries Home Library Service customers, one of the quotes from yesterday from a participant was “this has been the most fun I’ve had in a long time” looking forward to sharing our experience at #GLAMCares2024

Did you know that you can use any of our libraries to take out or return books? Your Barnsley Libraries card works at ALL of our libraries!

#BarnsleyLibraries

Today, we're looking back at Shakespeare Week and Library @ the Lightbox becoming a backdrop for a special performance of The Tempest from Laithes Primary School.

#LetsCreate Shakespeare B Trust Arts Council England

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Thank you to everyone who completed our survey on one of our free bookmarks during the Barnsley Book Festival. Your feedback is very important to us.

Here are some of the words of positivity we've collected! 🙌🏻

#BarnsleyBookFestival #LetsCreate

Be transported into a dystopian adventure with these sci-fi books at Roundhouse Library 🙃 Place a free reservation on our library catalogue: barns.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk/client/en_GB/d… Or call in to Roundhouse Library and chat with our team: barnsley.gov.uk/services/libra… 👍

Looking forward to sharing this with everyone! 📚

Post it note in a book in the library !
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