Volunteers' Week, which is 1-7 June this year, is an annual celebration of the contribution millions of people make across the UK through volunteering. As a service we value the contribution our volunteers make, whether they’re teaching children how to code, selecting and delivering books to a Home Library Service customer, helping customers feel comfortable… Continue reading Sending thanks to all our volunteers
If you’re a keen reader The Big Jubilee Read could be just the challenge you’re looking for. Featuring 70 titles, one for each year of Her Majesty The Queen’s reign, the books were all selected by a panel of experts to reflect our changing nation through fiction. Each decade, from the 1950s to the 2020s… Continue reading Join in with the Big Jubilee Read
Dobro Pojalovat v bibliotyeku - Добро пожаловать в библиотеку(Welcome to the Library) Our libraries are pleased to have been able to work alongside colleagues, communities, and partners to offer support to refugees arriving in Hampshire. Alongside free and flexible emergency library membership and information on our services, which has been translated into Ukranian and Russian,… Continue reading Supporting Ukraine in libraries
A great advocate and supporter of libraries, the best-selling writer Ann Cleeves was awarded an OBE in the 2022 New Year Honours List 'for services to Reading and Libraries.' Typically modest, this author of more than 30 novels responded to the nomination by saying, 'I'm delighted that this honour highlights the importance of reading and… Continue reading Ann Cleeves
Ali Archer, Stock Services Technician What is your role and what do you like about it? My job title is Stock Services Technician and I’m based at our Stock Support Services hub in Winchester. Day to day I co-manage the stock services team at Bar End (in Winchester), who ensure that all the behind-the-scenes work… Continue reading Behind the Bookshelves
Death positive libraries aim to remove the barriers to talking about death and dying. Almost 80% of British adults find it difficult to talk about death, even though we all have to face it. Not talking about death, not getting the right support and advice at the right time and the suffering that people go… Continue reading Death Positive Libraries
International Women's Day (IWD) March 8 is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality. IWD has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people. Today, IWD… Continue reading International Women’s Day #BreakTheBias
Robert Harris studied English at Cambridge University before joining the BBC as a television correspondent. His career in the media included writing as a columnist for the London Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph and Political Editor of The Observer before he became a full-time writer. Since his debut novel Fatherland which was published in 1992,… Continue reading Robert Harris
The Earth’s climate is changing, human activity is causing our planet to warm at an alarming rate. International bodies of scientists have warned that we have just over a decade to halve our emissions to avoid the most devastating impacts of climate change on our food supply, national security, global health, extreme weather, and more.… Continue reading Earth Matters March
Graham Greene, was an English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist whose novels treat life’s moral ambiguities in the context of contemporary political settings.
