☕ If you need a hot drink and something to eat, you can go to the
#BristolCentralLibrary
café and use the marbles on the counter to pay. Each marble is worth £1 towards your food and drink, you can use as many marbles as you need. No questions asked.
#PayitForward
#Bristol
We will not tolerate any discrimination or abuse aimed at any community. Any social media comments that contain abusive language or seek to demean or attack any community will be removed without warning and the user may be banned from our pages.3/3
#NationalGrammarDay
is celebrated across the United States each year on March 4th.
According to Global Language Monitor, the estimated number of words in the English language is 1,025,109! There is some controversy over that figure, but it’s safe to say it is over a million.
Drag Queen Story Hour at Bristol Libraries will offer children a rich experience in story telling in an interactive way. Developing reading skills & an understanding of different communities provides children with a positive start in life that in turn can reduce inequalities. 1/3
We have welcomed Drag Queen Story Hour to our libraries in the past and, as with all events involving children, safeguarding checks are carried out. 2/3
We’re really excited that we’ll be able to welcome you back to our buildings soon, and we’re working hard on our plans for a phased reopening to keep everyone safe. [1/4]
If you’d like to donate, you can pop into Bristol Central Library and buy marbles at the café for £1 a marble, then the marbles are put into the jar on the counter for anyone who might need to use them. Thank you everyone for helping us spread the word! 🙏
#PayitForward
#Bristol
Lost and Found in a Book - a wonderfully colourful exhibition of things found in library books. Collected over many years by one of our creative Library Assistants! Come and have a look - Central Library.
#lovelibraries
#BookLover
#Bristol
✨ Our newly refurbished Children’s area at Henleaze Library! ✨Henleaze is our busiest library for children and families so we’ve made more space by moving the children’s area and outfitting it with some shiny new furniture. Why not come along to check it out?
#Henleaze
#Bristol
What a lovely session we’ve just had introducing some of our city’s Afghan refugees to the library service. Nice to be able to give a welcome pack for the kids.
@BristolCouncil
Locking up Central Library after a long day helping researchers and students. Doesn’t it make you want to curl up with a good book? Goodnight all, see you tomorrow! 😊 📚
#LoveLibraries
#Libraries
#BristolHistory
In March 1965 the first episode of
#RoundtheHorne
was broadcast on radio. Credited with helping to liberalise attitudes at the time it also introduced audiences to
#polari
via Julian and Sandy. So,troll down to a library where it'll be bona to vada your dolly old eek.
@LGBTHM
Fantasy: Realms of the Imagination - a beautiful panel exhibition now on view at Central Library. Plus some books from our collections looking at early works and influences on fantasy literature.
Thank you to everyone who came along to
#SpecialCollectionsSunday
today, a wonderful turnout. Big shout out and thanks to Dr Kathleen Kennedy
@TheMedievalDrK
and our brilliant volunteers. Next month’s theme will be Children’s Books - see you then!
We’re ready for Special Collections Sunday with our wonderful guest curator Deborah Hutchinson
@bristolmuseum
and our fab volunteers Adrian and Steve.
#SpecialCollectionsSunday
We’d like your suggestions - we need 32 titles to start this off. Let us know your top titles. We’re hoping to do one for adult fiction and one for children’s fiction. Then follow
#worldcupofbooks2020
and vote in the book offs
#SelfIsolation
#StayAtHome
Coming soon: Words on Wheels🚴📚 Using electric cargo bikes the library team will be out and about around the city raising awareness of libraries, our services and the joy of reading!
Find out more:
#bristollibraries
#bookbikes
#wordsonwheels
‘Lost and Found in a book’ exhibition has been expanded! Head to Local Studies at Central Library for more delightful things found in library books.
#libraries
#booklovers
Lost and Found in a Book - a wonderfully colourful exhibition of things found in library books. Collected over many years by one of our creative Library Assistants! Come and have a look - Central Library.
#lovelibraries
#BookLover
#Bristol
We're excited!!
#LibrariesWeek
2020 starts tomorrow! To celebrate, join us for an online talk with Richard Ovenden, Bodleian director and author of 'Burning the Books' on Weds, 7th October at 6pm. Tickets are free! Sign up via Eventbrite:
@bodleianlibs
This is a photo of the most overdue book returned to
@BristolLibrary
- 42 years late 🤪. Will our
#bookamnesty
produce something to beat that 🤔
remember,
👍no fines,
👍no charges
👍no questions asked
but COVID safety encouraged
@bristol247
@bbcrb
Coming soon to Bristol
#microbitsinlibraries
. We have been given 300 - available to borrow from all libraries free - you just need your library card. For coders young and old or just those who want to find out what it’s all about.
We're trying something new at Bristol Central Library – Special Collections Sunday! Join us in the Bristol Room one Sunday a month to view items from our collections. Starting 13 November 2-4pm with Ballads & Broadsides
#SpecialCollectionsSunday
📢 Exclusive event for librarians and library users from
@BorrowBox
!
📅 Wednesday 22nd March at 5pm
📚
@AnnCleeves
will discussing her writing, inspiration and the role libraries have played in her life. There will also be a Q&A session so be sure to get your questions ready!
If you're looking for resources about understanding racism and would like to learn more, there is a
#BlackLivesMatter
collection of audiobooks available on
@BorrowBox
. Sign in with your library card to access and listen to these titles:
@BristolCouncil
Southmead Library re-opens today! 🎉 The library has moved to a new location at Southmead House, and provides all the usual services. as well as a new Business Centre (BIPC Local), to help support and grow local small businesses.
@BristolCouncil
#Bristol
#Southmead
#Library
N is for Newspapers
#BristolLocalStudiesAtoZ
Did you know at Bristol Central Library you can access over 300 years of local news?🗞️Read more for a full list of titles:
Shoppers in Fishponds this week may be surprised to spot a giant Owl perched on the Library! 🦉Created with
@Upfest
and Bristol artist Tom Habben it features quotes from local resident’s favourite books and is intended to make the library more visible:
We’re reopening more libraries! From today we will be offering browsing and pre-booked computers at Henleaze, Henbury, Fishponds, Junction 3, Knowle, Stockwood and the Central Library.
See our website for more details
It's Tuesday, which means the Central Library is open until 7pm this evening. Take a look at our lovely Reading Room - there are worst places to study!
#LibrariesWeek
#tuesdayvibe
Today's
#bookchooseday
challenge is to find a book written by an author using a pen-name, so we've picked two!
Middlemarch by Mary Ann Evans (writing under the name George Eliot) and The Third Policeman by Brian O'Nolan (better known as Flann O'Brien)
'The Lost and Found in a Book' exhibition at the Central Library, has now been extended until the end of September. 😍😍
It's well worth a look! 👀👀
#Lovelibraries
#lovebooks
#BristolLife
A big shout out and high five to all our fellow children’s librarians across the uk currently in the grip of summer reading challenge assembly fever - we are 39 schools in with more to go!
#mischiefmakers
#howhotcanaschoolhallget
#SRC2018
From Monday 13th July, we’ll be offering a Call and Collect service at Bristol Central Library (Mon-Sat, 11am-4pm). Next week you'll be able to call us on 0117 903 7250 or email lending.library
@bristol
.gov.uk to request items. Here's how it will work ➡️ [1/3]
📣📣Come and work with us! 📣📣
This is an exciting opportunity to join Bristol libraries in a variety of roles. We're looking for:
• Library Assistants
• a Library Supervisor
• a Library Early Years Coordinator
• a Library Volunteer Coordinator
Getting up close and personal with the Merlin Arthurian fragments found in Bristol Central Library by Bristol Uni researchers
#merlin
#kingarthur
Amazing discovery!
Lost bear at
#Bristol
Central Library! 🐻 Do you recognise this teddy bear? Currently being well looked after by the children’s librarians and is enjoying Beatrix Potter📚
For
#bookchooseday
@BromsgroveLib
challenged us to post a book with a character's name in the title, so here is Douglas Adam's wonderfully whimsical mystery, 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'.
Special Collections Sunday is back on 17 September, 2-4pm. Come join us to celebrate the rich history of the library with a display of photographs, books and much more.
#libraries
#Bristol
📚
As a starting point to help understand and dismantle racism, these are a few of the
#nonfiction
titles available as audiobooks and ebooks with
@BorrowBox
and
@LibbyApp
. To access, download and sign in with your library card:
@BristolCouncil
Huge congrats to Bristol Libraries young volunteer reading champions - they helped children with
#Mischiefmakers
#SummerReadingChallenge
Thank you - you were brilliant! Thanks to
@brislordmayor
for supporting our celebration this evening
Qualified librarian?
Love the history of Bristol?
Love looking after really old books and helping people with their research?
Come to work for Bristol Libraries as Local Studies Librarian - closing date 18th Oct - just type in 'librarian'on the search page
As a result of the national lockdown all Bristol Libraries will be closed from Wed 6 Jan. We will aim to review the situation towards the end of January. You can still access a wide range of material, events and activities online.
The main Holden entrance to Central Library is re-opening from today! 🎉The West entrance with accessible ramp is also open, Access to the Reference Library and Reading Room remains closed at this time. If you would like to book a computer please call 0117 9037234
Join us at Central Library on Thursday 27 October at 12.30pm for a lecture by Colin Thomas
@BrisRadHis
‘Facing up to the Fascists: Confronting the National Front in Bristol’
#Bristol
#LunchtimeLecture
Bristol In Books
Tue 15 May 2018
Part of
#BristolWalkFest
Join us on a three mile walk exploring Bristol’s literary heritage, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Angela Carter.
Ask at you local library for tickets
Book of the Week - beautiful copy of ‘The well at the World’s End’ by William Morris. Printed at Kelmscott Press 1896. On display upstairs at Central Library.
#BookOfTheWeek
#WilliamMorris
#Libraries
You can still apply to become our new Heritage Development Librarian, so if you're an enthusiastic qualifed
#archivist
or
#librarian
with a passion to bring local and family history to life find out more here . Closing date March 21st.
#libraryjobs