Teddy Bear Trail, 2021
Jesmond Library’s famous Teddy Bear Trail is back – and it’s bigger than ever. A total of 76 bears are now in place waiting to be found. And each one hopes to be chosen as the people’s favourite! This year there are two trails to…
Extension granted!
Several of you have requested an extension to this year’s competition deadline, and we are happy to grant it! The new deadline for this year’s Jesmond Library Creative Writing Competition is Saturday April 10, 2021. The theme is ‘Do you want to know a secret’. We…
Book Group
When we read a good book, something magical can happen. Locked down and in our own home we lose ourselves inside a fictional world, created by the imagination of the author but transformed into a virtual reality by our emotional response to the written word….
Do you want to know a secret?
Jesmond Library is once again running its popular annual creative writing competition. This year the theme is “Do you want to know a secret?” With that as your starting point let your imagination take you anywhere it will. There are four age categories: Under 5…
Historic costume at Beamish
On Thursday December 10th at 6.00pm Sarah-Mary Geisller will be talking about historic costume at Beamish. For an invitation to the zoom event please email events@jesmondlibrary.org.
Book group – The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing
For an invitation to the zoom meeting to discuss The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing by Mary Paulson-Ellis please email events@jesmondlibrary.org
Zooming into Autumn
September – summer is over and autumn has taken its place. School children return to their classes, students to university and colleges, and so the new term begins. Here at Jesmond Library we too have a new programme planned for the autumn. We hope you…
Working with other Community Libraries
This week on the blog we’re in conversation with Chris Clarke who represents FOJL on the Community Managed Libraries National Peer Network. That’s quite a mouthful. Can you tell us more about the organisation? The Network is currently made up of over 400 libraries who…
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