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Saturday 17 May 2008

Library News

Silver Surfers Day at Garston Library with HSBP

  

Friday 23rd May 2008, Garston Community Library, Bowden Road, L19 1QN -  10.00am - 3.00pm

This year Liverpool Libraries are holding their Silver Surfers Day at Garston Community Library. The event will be hosted in partnership with Henshaws Society for Blind People (HSBP) Liverpool.

We would like to invite any new silver surfers (over age 50) to come along and try the internet. Especially welcome would be any customers with sight impairment as we will have the experts on hand to help you use the adaptive software. On the day you can have a taste of doing the following online:

• Surf the internet

• get an email account

• look up your family history

• use microsoft office

You tell us what you would like to try and we will try to help you. This event is free, refreshments will be available.

Why not drop in and have a chat and a surf on the internet!

For other Silver Surfer events on Merseyside visit www.silversurfersday.org

May Bank Holiday

All Libraries will be closed on the May Bank Holidays Monday 5th and Monday 26th May 2008.

Books can be renewed 24 hours a day, seven days a week including holidays:

• online through borrower services on the catalogue

• or by calling Liverpool Direct on 233 3000

Free Liverpool Reads Books!

Join in the city wide reading adventure Liverpool Reads.
Just go along to any Liverpool library and pick up a FREE copy of KEEPER or TAMAR.
Don't miss out!
Everyone's reading MAL PEET.

Another Hard Days Night

A new and exclusive exhibition celebrating The Beatles 1964 homecoming.

10th July 1964 the Beatles returned home to Liverpool. The iconic scenes of The Beatles return were shown around the world. This exciting exhibition retells this tale using the wealth of archives kept at Liverpool Record Office. From the first steps off the aeroplane at the Old Liverpool Airport to the rapturous reception at the Town Hall and then on to the northern premiere of their first feature film A Hard Days Night at the Odeon Cinema in London Road, Liverpool.

Original poster artwork courtesy of Miramax Film Corps - All rights reserved

Another Hard Days Night Exhibition

Picton Reading Rooms, Central Library From Thursday 17th January - extended until further notice by popular demand

Another Hard Days Night Documentary

BBC Radio Merseyside

25th December 2007 12noon - 2.00pm

A free exhibition, all welcome, open normal library opening hours.

1.3 million pounds Big Lottery Fund award!

Toxteth Library has been awarded £1.3million from the Big Lottery Fund to transform the library so it can provide a 21st century community resource. Local people will be at the heart of the new development.

The full press release can be read on the council news page.

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What's On in Liverpool Libraries

Read & write your history of Liverpool 

Over 1000 stories added so far

Liverpool Libraries have been the community partner for the successful What was in Walton project. It was a project to involve as many people as possible in the Walton area to read and write their own story of their area. This project has now expanded to include the whole city.

To become involved in this innovative project you can either read the stories on the website or even better why not write your own. The website address is www.whatwashere.com  start reading and writing your story of Liverpool today!

Rare books and beautiful buildings 

Take a virtual tour of the magnificent Picton Library and view some of the special collections

These are kept mainly in the superb Edwardian Hornby Library or in the adjacent atmospheric Oak Room, both located on the 2nd floor Central Library.

See some of the world's most beautiful books. The attached leaflet gives a glimpse of what is available.

Subscriptions

Ancestry Library Edition is one of the leading resources of online family history research.

It is now freely accessible at any of our 23 community libraries and central library. We have a total of 350 public computers all with broadband access to the internet. Ancestry Library Edition can be easily browsed and searched and has a user-friendly approach to design.

To access Ancestry Library Edition log onto a public computer and click Library Applications and then Digital Library.

Available now, ask staff for details.