Library news and events from around the Rochdale
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On Saturday 11 September 2010 Balderstone Library is hosting a free family fun day. The day's festivities have a late Mediæval theme, with a touch of the Tudors to bring everything up to date!
Do you want to: Try out a digital camera? Find out how to download the pictures onto a computer and make them available on the web? Change your pictures using software on the computer? Come along to the library!
Alkrington Library's popular story times for under-fives are back! Story Time now every Thursday at 2.15pm during school term time. Our first fun session of stories, rhymes and craft will be on Thursday 16 September.
Have you been inspired by a story you have heard, or read, or perhaps by a visit you have made to a historic site, museum or library? Flashback Fiction is a short story competition that asks you to bring the past to life in no more than 500 words.
Come along to the library for one of our free, informal "iTea and Biscuits" mornings. If you’ve been meaning to find out more about the internet but haven’t known where to start this is the ideal opportunity!
Spotland will be closed from 6 ― 25 September 2010 inclusive for essential building maintenance. We apologise for the inconvenience and look forward to seeing everyone again when we re-open on Monday 27 September.
Come along to the Wheatsheaf Library to meet Linda Green, author of "Things I Wish I'd Known (Back when I thought I knew it all)."
Tickets are free, but booking is essential.
Look out for our new programme of free IT courses at heywood Library!
Making handmade books is fun and the possibilities are endless! Come to Spotland Library and find out more at a free book-making demonstration. Victoriana will show you some easy ways to get delightful results.
Smithybridge Library is joining in the Biggest Coffee Morning in The World, to help raise funds for MacMillan Cancer. Everyone is welcome to come and join us at the library on Saturday 25 September 2010 between 10am and 12 noon.
Come along to Smithybridge Library for an informal "iTea and Biscuits" morning. Free computer taster sessions; free refreshements and everyone welcome!
If you see any of the staff in our libraries looking a bit dazed and confused, please be gentle with them: we are in the middle of a whirlwind of activity!
Do you want to: Try out a digital camera? Find out how to download the pictures onto a computer and make them available on the web? Change your pictures using software on the computer? Come along to the library!
Every so often we unearth undiscovered riches! Moving some filing cabinets we discovered a long-forgotten portfolio. It contained a collection of original artwork by children's artists who had visited our libraries in the 1970s and 1980s.
We all know we need to live a more healthy lifestyle but where to start? We are having a healthy living drop-in session at Smallbridge Library on Thursday 5 August between 2pm and 4pm.