Richmond Reads – the Season of Stories
You may have seen Richmond Reads on posters in our libraries or on our website, but what is Richmond Reads? In this blog post we'll explain what it is, when…
The Great Big Green Week
June 10 – 18 is The Great Big Green Week, a week celebrating community action in tackling climate change and protecting nature. This blog post will look at the ways…
How can the library help you through the cost of living crisis?
Warm spaces, books, internet access and events; the library has many ways to support you through the cost-of-living crisis. Using the resources available to you as a library user, this…
International Women’s Day recommendations
March 8 marks International Women's Day, a global celebration of social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. To celebrate it, we asked our library staff to choose their favourite…
What we read in 2022
Welcome back to our annual round up of recommended reads for the year. We asked staff across the library service for their top 3 titles of 2022 and here's what…
Non-Fiction November – that’s a fact!
It's November, and it's time to acknowledge non-fiction. Let's get factual and celebrate all those readers that have a passion for information, and perhaps encourage those readers that don't, to…
Ignatius Sancho- A man of letters
This Black History Month we turn our attention to one of the borough's less well known public figures, Ignatius Sancho, and with help from our Local Studies Library and Archive…
What do libraries mean to you? Part 3
It’s Libraries Week, and to celebrate we asked local authors to share their love of libraries. Our final guest of the week is Molly Gartland, the author of The Girl…
What do libraries mean to you? Part 2
It’s Libraries Week and to celebrate we asked local authors to share their love of libraries. Today it's the turn of Mary Chamberlain, novelist and historian, author of the international…
What do libraries mean to you? Part 1
It's Libraries Week and to celebrate we asked local authors to share their love of libraries. First up is Michelle Birkby, author of The House at Baker Street. It is…