A picture of a previous wartime leader who visited the White House and didn’t wear a suit.

FREE VR experiences are coming to Newham Libraries! The #DigitalSpaces national VR Tour is landing at Newham Libraries from 8-23 March. 🌍 Visit the North 💥 Experience the Berlin Blitz 🐶 Join Wallace & Gromit on an adventure & more! Learn more: tinyurl.com/2cnhbwuc

Happy #WorldBookDay!!! And thank you to all the libraries taking part to make it a roaring success and giving children the gift of choice - being able to choose from thousands of books what they want to read and enjoy

"Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card!" Happy World Book Day! In school, I've dressed up as American cartoon Arthur referring to his library card song! Reading can bring so much joy but a survey found that 4 in 10 adults hadn't read a single book in the past year

True for Newham, true for library services all over the country. Go along and see what they have to offer!

Fantastic Baby Bounce & Rhyme sessions with a #WorldBookDay twist at #OrpingtonLibrary today. We love #Rainbowsaurus by Steve Antony. Icing on the cake was joining up a 5 wk old baby to the library. You are never too young to get a library card!! World Book Day UK 📚

We’re moving ahead with groundbreaking plans to transform our St Pancras site. This multi-purpose extension will include new spaces for exhibitions, events, learning, research and business support, and enable us to deliver new programmes too. Read more: bit.ly/BLStPancrasTra…

[Public] Libraries Improvement Fund (LIF) of £5.5m for 2025/26 opens on 6 May with deadline 30 May, for £50-500k CapEx to upgrade physical and digital infrastructure gov.uk/government/new…

We welcome £30m+ funding for libraries & museums Department for Culture, Media and Sport. #PublicLibraries (England) can apply for a share of £5.5 million Libraries Improvement Fund (LIF) as part of the Govt’s commitment libraries physical & digital infrastructure. Applications open: 6 May gov.uk/government/new…

Lovely memories of going to these years ago when my daughters were performing as part of their school contingent

Pancetta does

Easter Holiday fun at #ChislehurstLibrary Bromley Council GLL Better Visit Chislehurst

The fourth round of the Libraries Improvement Fund will open for expressions of interest on Tuesday 6th May. Today we’re shining a spotlight on Barnsley Libraries who were able to upgrade their libraries with the support of LIF funding. dcmslibraries.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/04/bar…

I'd really give my flower and veg beds a lift with heavy composting!

Life's Better With A Library: a poem by Robin Ince with library users reading the words youtu.be/RPt9OWVoOTU?si…

Deadline for responses to Arts Council England Review extended until 30 June gov.uk/government/cal…

New Job Opportunity – Central Library Manager manclibraries.blog/new-job-opport…

Great to see Jersey Library's exhibition of former Chief Librarian, Ash Dickinson's work feature in today's jepnews. Ash and his wife Eva were deported to Germany in 1942, returning to the island in 1945. #Liberation80 #LiberationDay

Why not pop in and see our Treasures foyer exhibition, celebrating 75 years of Archives in #NorthYorkshire - 11 April to 27 June, free to view, each Tuesday to Friday, 9.30am-4pm 🗺️