We need to shout it from the rooftops: Libraries are for everyone, they provide activities that directly impact on loneliness, they give access to communities and enable change
Absolutely!! My local city library is one of my most fave places to work in & borrow books from - also is a real joy to occasionally go back to study at @britishlibrary@bodleianlibs
"A library card is a powerful weapon to change lives. With it, we learn how to value what we have, to mourn what we have lost and to dream of what we might become."
@valmcdermid discusses the importance of public libraries:
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"He now works in the probation service as part of a restorative justice programme, and it all started with Reading Ahead." If you need encouragement to run #ReadingAhead this year, read about the success they have had @KirkleesLibrary. ow.ly/86yv50utSQn#SundayThoughts
Thanks to @valmcdermid for her moving celebration of libraries in this morning's Point of View @BBCRadio4 . Libraries are dangerous places because they encourage thought and discussion.
A reminder that letters to Father Christmas are available in Lindley library and that Father Christmas will be in the library on Tuesday December 4th from 5.30 until 7.30