It is a truth universally acknowledged…
It is a truth universally acknowledged… …that a novel in possession of a good opening, must be in want of a reader. (With apologies to Jane Austen for this unashamed parody of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice.) One of the fascinating gifts I received…
Browsing for books
There is a special delight in choosing a new book from the Library shelf. What will it be? A novel – crime, romance, historical or thriller – each provide a voyage of discovery to a fictional world peopled by characters formed in the imagination of…
We’re back!
It’s been five months since we were forced to close and we’ve missed you all. But now we’re opening our doors again. We’re taking it slowly. Small steps, finding a way to keep our users and our volunteers safe. For the last three months we…
Thursday July 9th
This Thursday July 9th at 6.00pm Jason Meek will be talking about ‘Fareshare – fighting hunger; tackling food waste’ For an invitation to the zoom meeting please email events@jesmondlibrary.org
Don’t stop the (M̶u̶s̶i̶c̶) Creative Writing!
Rules, and lives, are changing. Schools and nurseries are cracking open their doors. People are returning to work. We’re taking tentative steps towards seeing our friends and loved ones. We continue to peep round corners, give strangers a wide berth, but the pace of life…
Art Challenge
We are already challenging budding and established writers. Now we have something for the artists among you. The Library is asking you rise to a new challenge to keep yourselves busy in these strange times. As with the Creative Writing we will post a theme…
Staying connected
How very different lockdown would have been without technology to help us stay in touch with each other. Zoom, FaceTime, Skype, WhatsApp have all helped to make the separation from family and friends so much easier. Humorous gifs and memes have given us reason to…
Imagining a post Covid Jesmond
Tony Waterston’s talk on zoom this evening is now available here, Password: 3v@5&?44 https://newcastleuniversity.zoom.us/rec/share/1NRtNOHy2mhIa6_c8XOGavMQGZjVeaa81HJM86ANxEq6SQdANWEoYi4-42uMDEtC?startTime=1591801027000 Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across…
Did I miss anything?
Another week, another Jesmond Library Creative Writing Challenge! We’ve received some fascinating entries so far to our lockdown writing challenge – some funny, others thought-provoking, and some quite fantastical. All are brilliant. We hope you’ll continue to send us more! This week we start the…
While the city sleeps…
… Jesmond keeps busy! Even though we’re not allowed to reopen the Library just yet, it doesn’t mean there’s nothing going on. Book Group The library book group will next meet (online) on Wednesday 3 June at 7:00 pm, to discuss “The Return” by Victoria…
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