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50% off audio for Make a Noise in Libraries Fortnight |
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To celebrate MANIL, we are offering 50% off audio rentals in June. Visit our website next week for further details or head to your local library in June to take advantage of this great offer.
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Volunteers Week 2013 |
 Volunteers Week is an annual campaign which takes place on 1-7 June and celebrates the fantastic contribution millions of volunteers make across the UK.
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| Try before you buy - test drive e-book readers |
 Come along and test drive a range of e-book readers at a library taster event. The event in Cambridge Central Library on Wednesday 22 May, 11am-1pm has been organised in partnership with John Lewis, Heffers, Waterstones and WHSmith. Experts will be on hand to help anyone wanting to know more about e-book readers, tablets and other devices that can be used to download e-books.
E-books are now available from Cambridgeshire Libraries - library members just need a computer, e-book reader, tablet or smartphone to download them. |
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May Bank Holiday closure |
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All Libraries and Library Access Points will be closed for the Spring Bank Holiday. The closure date is Monday 27 May.
An extra day will be added to the due date if the Bank Holiday falls during the loan period of an item. |
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Recommended read, May |
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To help give you some ideas of what books to read, and what and who is a popular read why not have a look at our May list of Hot new books, the author profile of the month and the Top 100 Popular Authors.
Visit our Reading website, and why not join a reading group too?
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Cromwell Museum - excavation finds |
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The Cromwell Museum is playing host for the next few weeks to the finds from the current Ermine Street excavations which are currently being conducted on the former Travis Perkins site in Huntingdon. Two cases are being used to display a range of the finds from the site, and the finds are changed fortnightly as the excavation progresses.
On Saturday 1 June the Museum is also hosting an archaeology finds event with the county Finds Liaison Officer on hand to identify those intriguing bits and pieces of pot and metal that mystify the non-specialist. The finds event is complemented by the archaeology events that are running in the nearby library on the same day. |
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Quiet please, for library music event! |
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Huntingdonshire Music School Association is visiting Huntingdon Library to encourage people to try out an instrument, play for fun or have a taster lesson.
Library customers will be able to play a selection of instruments from brass to woodwind, guitars to a piano. Customers will also have the opportunity to listen to live performances and sing along.
The event takes place in Huntingdon Library on Saturday 22 May, 9am to 1pm. It's a free drop-in session for all the family and there is no need to book. |
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St Ives Book Jam - 18 May |
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Join us as the second annual St Ives Book Jam event. A number of fantastic storytelling and illustration workshops will take place at the Corn Exchange, off Market Square, on Saturday 18 May.
The children's book event will see extremely talented authors and illustrators sharing their secrets throughout the day. |
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Waterlees Words Festival - thank you! |
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 We'd like to thank those who attended the The Waterlees Words Festival. Day one was spent at the Oasis Children's Centre with collage artist Marian Savill. 18 families who attended the weekly Stay & Play session were amazed by her interpretation of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and were inspired to create their own pictures.
Day two was hosted by The Orchards Primary School and was the culmination of a six month literacy project in the Waterlees area of Wisbech. A host of activities, including face painting and rhyme and story times, were arranged to encourage families to get involved in making literacy fun. |
