The following libraries will be closed today, Saturday May 4th:
• Filwood
• Junction3 – 1-2pm
• Redland
• Southmead 12.30-1.30pm
• Stockwood 11.00-1.00pm
• Whitchurch

We apologise for the inconvenience and are currently recruiting to vacancies.

📚Libraries open today on polling day are:

Central 9:30am – 5pm
Fishponds 11am-7pm
Knowle 11am-7pm
Lockleaze 11am-4pm
St Pauls 1pm-5pm
Shirehampton 10am-2pm

🗳️The following Libraries will be closed today, Thursday 2nd May, as they’ll be acting as Polling Stations for the council elections:

Bedminster
Bishopston
Clifton
Hartcliffe
Henleaze
Horfield
Marksbury Road
Redland
St George
Sea Mills
Stockwood
Westbury

No answers received to these questions on the future of #Bristol ’s #Libraries

🗳️Cllr Emma Edwards of Bristol Green Party
🗳️Tom Renhard of Bristol Labour Group
🗳️jos clark of Bristol Lib Dems🔶🇺🇦
🗳️BSG Conservatives
🗳️TUSC

In #Belarus , the authorities have stigmatised and repressed Belarusian literature and language. In 2023, books by Nobel Prize laureate and former PEN Belarus President, #SvetlanaAlexievich were withdrawn from libraries. Learn more about #BookBans worldwide:…

Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell on why we need libraries – an essay in pictures. 2 great champions of reading for pleasure return to remind us that it really is an important thing to do – and that #libraries create literate citizens
theguardian.com/books/gallery/…

May the Fourth be with you! #SteveWeatherillBooks #FFBWednesday #libraries

'Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.'
⚫️ RIP Paul Auster

Alert for schools and others! Join our founder Miranda McKearney OBE at National Literacy Trust's Diverse Libraries webinar with Sharna Jackson & Dr Nazneen Ahmed Pathak 💫

We'll explore the magical connection between reading and empathy, and how to harness the power of #EmpathyDay

➡️literacytrust.org.uk/events/diverse…

A few questions on the future of #Bristol ’s #Libraries for

🗳️Cllr Emma Edwards of Bristol Green Party
🗳️Tom Renhard of Bristol Labour Group
🗳️jos clark of Bristol Lib Dems🔶🇺🇦
🗳️BSG Conservatives
🗳️TUSC

We want to know. What will you do?

This is a month of notifications of #Libraries being closed in #Bristol . It’s been this way each month since the freeze on casual staff hiring last summer.

What will the political parties do to
(a) fix this problem and
(b) maintain the city’s #Library service?

Libraries are one of the most valuable public services.
View the link below to read more on this Op-Ed from Katarina Hockema
nyctastemakers.com/libraries-are-…

#NYCTastemakers #NYCTM #Libraries #Books

We’ve had a tough few years for #Bristol ’s #Libraries . The last 2 council administrations stirred up a hornets’ nest by wanting to cull the city’s libraries

Bristol Green Party (the favourites to run Bristol) are NOT sounding too positive about improving or even maintaining Libraries

⚠️Due to staff shortages, the following libraries will be closed today:

Whitchurch
Redland

We are actively recruiting to library vacancies. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

We know that Labour have been understaffing libraries and leading to weeks of closures.

Greens want to create ‘community hubs’ to save money. This inevitably means reducing space and capacity for libraries.

No longer are they spaces worthy of existing on their own.

#Bristol votes for a new Council on Thursday 2nd May

What do the parties have to say on the future of the city’s #Libraries ?

🗳️BSG Conservatives
🗳️Bristol Green Party
🗳️Bristol Labour Group
🗳️Bristol Lib Dems🔶🇺🇦
🗳️Social Democratic Party
🗳️TUSC

Due to staff shortages, the following libraries will be closed today, Tuesday 30th April
• Wick 1-2
In addition extended access will not be available at SW this morning.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused. We are actively recruiting to library vacancies.

⚠️Due to staff shortages, the following libraries will be closed today, Monday 29th April:

Hartcliffe
Filwood
Avonmouth
Knowle

In addition extended access will not be available at Stockwood this morning.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.