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Latest library events

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Mayfair Library's Lego Club

4 October 2024
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Story time at Marylebone Library

4 October 2024
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Lego Club at Queen's Park Library

4 October 2024
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Get online week

Get Online Week

This Get Online Week, we want to encourage people to connect at the library to fight loneliness. We have a team of volunteers and staff who can help you or a loved one learn IT skills. Get Online Week runs from 14 to 20 October.

Find out more about Get Online Week

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International Games Week

International Games Week runs from 7 to 14 November. The week aims to reconnect communities through their libraries around the educational, recreational, and social value of all types of games. We're hosting a range of events across all our libraries in Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea. Keep your eyes peeled for the full line-up of events in November. 

Find out more about International Games Week

Staff book recommendations

Book cover of Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

Touching the void by Joe Simpson

Reading and Literacy Librarian, Laurence Foe, gives us a insight into Joe Simpson's book, 'Touching the Void'.
Corey Fah does Social Mobility Isabel Waidner (Hamish Hamilton)

Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner

Library Officer Helen Bailey reviews Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner. A radical, joyful novel.
Mary Jean Chan's poem, 'Bright Fear'.

Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan

Library Officer, Helen Bailey, gives us an insight into her thoughts of Mary Jean Chan's poem, 'Bright Fear'.
Between the woods and the water by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Between the woods and the water by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Reading and Literacy Librarian, Laurence Foe reviews 'Between the woods and the water' by Patrick Leigh Fermor.

More from libraries and archives

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Library stories

Mahbuba is wearing a headscarf and is seated, smiling and looking directly at the camera, in front of a wall of colourful children's books

Mahbuba's story

Ritsu is seated and looking at the camera and smiling. The background is some colourful children's books and a mural painted on the wall

Ritsu's story

Kate is facing the camera, sitting on a chair and behind her is a wall of books in a library

Kate's story