Nearly 3,000 children signed up in advance for this year’s Summer Reading Challenge!
And your child can join them. They simplyneed to sign up in their local library, borrow some amazing library books then come and tell us about their favourite.
There are six special Story Garden stickers to collect over the six week’sholidays. No need to come in every week to collect them, just come in when you can to tell us about the library books they have been reading.
Having been closed since March for upgrades to the building,
including fitting an Air Source Heat Pump and solar panels, Whittlesey Library opened again on 25th July.
We are pleased to welcome
customers old and new back into our building on Market Street. Come along
and sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge if you haven’t already. Our
thanks go to Scaldgate Child and Family Centre for giving us a home during the
closed period.
Lost your appetite for reading? Or just not sure which book to tuck into
next?
Find inspiration in the Big Tasty Read. It’s The Reading Agency's latest
campaign with the BBC. Choose from a smorgasbord of delicious stories by novelists
and food writers as you explore the joy of books through food.
Restaurant critic and Celebrity Masterchef judge, Grace Dent, fronts the
campaign: “Reading and eating are two of life’s greatest pleasures – both acts
of discovery, comfort, and joy. Through this campaign, I hope to inspire people
across the UK to rediscover the appetite for reading that exists in all of us,
and to recognise that stories, like memorable meals, have the power to bring us
together and transform our lives.”
Check your library for tasty titles or find them to reserve on our online catalogue.
Local Nature Recovery Strategies
The water we drink, the air we breathe and the food we eat all depend on the natural world. Yet England is one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries and in the UK our region has one of the lowest proportions of land designated for nature.
Local Nature Recovery Strategies are an England-wide approach to targeting nature recovery. They set out priorities and actions and inform planning for sustainable land use and delivery of nature-based solutions.
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Local Nature Recovery Strategy is open to public consultation until 11th September. Read the strategy, view the local habitat map setting out priority areas for nature recovery and have your say via a survey: https://yourvoice.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/lnrs/consultation
Printed versions of the survey and documentation are available at all 33 Cambridgeshire libraries plus available to download. Find your nearest libraryhere.
Your library can help you to get your child ready for school.Sign them up for the Summer Reading Challenge and we’ll reward them with stickers to encourage them to sit and share books with you.
Our programme of free/low-cost activities this summer will get them used to interacting with a mixed age group of children they don’t know.
We have picture book stories about starting school to get them used to the idea and stories to help them explore any anxieties they may have.
A new app called Spydus Library is now available. It's not an update to the old Spydus app, so you'll need to download and install it separately. You can find the download links below.
Spydus Library is a free app which lets you access library services and manage your membership, any time.
You can also use it to search the library catalogue, keep track of your library account and manage the items you've got out on loan.
This is also home to your digital library card which you can use to scan at our self-service machines or Open Plus.
Our Cambridgeshire Reads and Listens collection brings you a wide range of books to borrow in eBook and eAudiobook format. Available for multiple use, they're great for reading groups and workplace reads.
Each month the selection of adult, young adult and children's titles are refreshed - they're available to borrow over a 60-day period. Try the link to look at this month's offerings.
We have five titles available as Reads:
One Perfect French Summer by Lucy Coleman, A Wedding for the Bomber Girls by Vicki Beeby, Munichs by David Peace, City of Vengeance by D. V. Bishop, The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves
Dead on Target by M. C. Beaton, Verity by Colleen Hoover, Things We Do for Love by Miranda Dickinson, Shadows in the Moonlight by Santa Montefiore, A Darkness Returns by Raymond E. Feist, One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson, Jericho’s Dead by William Hussey,Laidlaw by William McIlvanney, Grounded by Ruth Allen
Well Done, Secret Seven by Enid Blyton, The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson, Small Robot, BIG Adventure by Shane Hegarty, The Boy Who Sang With Dragons by Andy Shepherd, Rumaysa by Radiya Hafiza
Ancestry has recently released parish registers for both Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. With nearly 5.8 million records available, who will you look for? They include baptism, marriage and burial records and have images of the original parish registers. Ancestry Library Edition is available for free in all Cambridgeshire libraries.
The picture is the Pumfrey family wedding at Duxford St John’s church in 1929.
South Asian Heritage Celebration
To celebrate South Asian Heritage Month, join us at Cambridge Central Library for a Special Storytime and to explore Warli Art through our fun and creative workshop inspired by this beautiful style from the Sahyadri Hills in Western India. This artwork uses basic shapes like triangles and circles to show scenes from daily life and a close relationship with nature.
From helping us get prescriptions to giving advice on minor illnesses, pharmacies play a vital role in looking after our health and wellbeing.
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Health and Wellbeing Board is running a survey to help them understand what people need from pharmacy services. Your views will help them evaluate and develop pharmacy services for our community.
