April’s challenge For the National Year of Reading 2026, we are setting a new challenge each month. The April challenge was a picture quiz, imagining what would happen if the illustrator of a book misheard or misunderstood the title and inadvertently used an animal in…
The March Challenge As part of our engagement in the National Year of Reading 2026, we are setting a new challenge each month. The March challenge #BookCharacter was for our younger members to draw their favourite character from their favourite book. It also tied in…
We have a winner! Well done to Grandma Rita who is the winner of our February Challenge, #AuthorAnagrams. As part of the National Year of Reading, we are setting a different challenge each month. For February we asked our supporters to unscramble the names of…
As part of The National Year of Reading we asked our volunteers and supporters to join January’s challenge – to rewrite a book in the form of a poem. Well done to all who took part. The winning poem was written by Stephanie whose retelling…
Looking to improve your language skills? Whether you have dreams of becoming fluent in Italian or just want to practice some basic Spanish to use on holiday, Jesmond Library has you covered. Every week our library hosts a range of language conversation groups for people…
This year our library is hosting various community drop-ins on Fridays, giving Jesmond residents the opportunity to have any queries answered. The sessions that we are hosting include: Police Drop-Ins On Friday 9th, we had our first of three scheduled police drop-ins. This event was…
Are you local and in need of some entertainment for your children? Our library can help. These are some of the exciting events that your little ones are guaranteed to enjoy: Christmas Crafts Session On the 22nd December we will be hosting a fun craft…
Congratulations to this year’s winners! And a heartfelt thank you to everyone who entered. The standard this year was exceptionally high, the range of voices and stories a reminder of the remarkable talent in our writing community. Enormous gratitude to the people who helped make…
We are delighted to welcome traditional folk band Axum to the library on Thursday 11th December, who will be performing an exciting set of seasonal tunes. The band are a locally based eight piece that formed in 2013 and have played their folk arrangements at…
