Meet the authors!

Date: Saturday 5 July 2008 Time: 2pm - 4pm

Everyone is welcome to come along and meet local author Pamela Hill, who will be at the Wheatsheaf Library on Saturday 5 July between 2pm and 4pm to talk about her new novel "A Sense of Belonging".

Date: Wednesday 30 July 2008 Time: 7pm - 9pm

Spotland Library is hosting an evening evening in the company of local author Shirley Wells from 7pm to 9pm on Wednesday 30 July. Shirley will be talking about her Lancashire-based crime novels featuring Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham.

Both events are free. More details of these events are available from the Reader Development Librarian on 01706 924941

Teahouse discussion

A favourite pastime across Asia and other parts of the world, "teahouse discussions" provide an opportunity for people to talk about relevant and contemporary issues on a theme of protest while sampling a selection of teas.

A lively group joined us this evening at the Wheatsheaf Library to discuss whether or not the media's portrayal of Rochdale: "Rochdale - Scrounge capital of the UK?" is the true picture.

Carnival caterpillar

Eric the Very Hungry Caterpillar made a welcome appearance at this year's Norden Carnival.

Eric was made by Lynn Byrne, the Branch Assistant at Norden Library and his legs were provided by children from the primary school.

A good time was had by all and even the weather behaved itself!

A morning of memories

Langley Library held a Langley Schools Reminiscence Morning this morning.

Thirty people attended the event, including past employees and pupils of the schools. Mr. Little, the presenter, kept everybody's attention and had them laughing at some of his anecdotes.

A display of photographs from the Local Studies Collection helped to support the event.

Interested in Languages?

We have added Oxford Language Dictionaries Online to our portfolio of online reference books available to all our members both in the library and online at home.

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