The council's Libraries and Information services offer an extensive range of services to the local community.
We operate one central library, 14 branch libraries and two mobile libraries. Library users can select from a wide variety of books and other materials.
The library service is also your link with other local, regional and national libraries and specialist information services.
Events
2008 is the National Year of Reading. There are lots of activities and events happening. Visit our National Year of Reading pages to find out more.
ReadNorthLincs is now online. Join in with our library blog, online discussion boards and much more. If you love reading then tell us all about it!
You can see photos of previous library events in our online photo album.
Every Thursday Story time at North Lincolnshire Central Children's Library from 10am to 10.20am. During term time the story sessions will be followed by free creative play activities at 20-21 Arts Centre from 10.30 to 12noon.
Every Monday (during term time) Under five's storytime at Barton Library 2pm to 2.30pm. Bring along a toy to match our themes.
Until the end of July - Plant swop at Barton Library.
Until 31 January 2009 - Enter our competition to win a camping holiday to Europe simply by borrowing two books from your local library.
Monday 14 July - Start of Team Read, the summer reading challenge 2008.
Saturday 30 August to Tuesday 2 September - Sale of ex library books at Barton Library.
Saturday 25 October - Readers' Festival. More details to be announced shortly.
New library services
Join the library online. Want to start reserving books and using our online services, but not yet a member? Now you can join online and start using our services straightaway.
New kind of talking book. We are now offering readers an exciting new format called Playaway, a type of MP3 player. This is very lightweight, compact and easy to use. Read about it on our talking books page.
Other news
Do you want to work in a library? We currently have vacancies for Library Support Assistants. Visit our Job page for more details.
New "Reading Corner" at Crosby Local Link - We now have a selection of multicultural books available for loan from Crosby Local Link. The collection includes items in English, Arabic, Bengali, Punjabi, Italian and Urdu. There is also a small collection of books on citizenship. (A much larger selection of books in these and other languages are available from North Lincolnshire Central Library).
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