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Hello from Bristol Libraries! We're a public library service with 27 libraries across the city. This account is monitored during office hours.

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Totally normal Friday afternoon at Central Library. Just taking one of our library trees for a walk ahead of #NationalTreeWeek next week. 🪴🌳🌿
A member of library staff pushing a library book trolley with a large plant balanced on top
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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🎉 Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th!
📅 22 Nov | ⏰ 1 PM
📍 Sea Mills Library
Enjoy 🍰 cakes, 🎨 art, ✏️ silhouette drawing, 📖 storytime & more!
✨ Costumes welcome. Free entry!
👉 More Info: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=252...
#JaneAusten #SeaMillsLibrary #SeaMills
Poster for “Jane Austen Celebration” with floral decorations and pastel colors. Text includes: 22nd November from 1.00pm, Sea Mills Library. Banner reads Cakes and Refreshments available. Activities listed: Children’s Drawing Exhibition, Raffle, Silhouette Drawing, Children’s Storytime, Giveaways, Public Reading. Bottom section invites guests to a 250th anniversary event celebrating Jane Austen’s life and works, encouraging costumes. A quote reads: “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends…” – Northanger Abbey, 1818.
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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📚 Lunchtime Talk: Writing Historical Fiction with Author @finavon.bsky.social

🗓️ Thursday 27th November
🕧 12.30–1.30pm
📍 Holden Foyer, Bristol Central Library

🎟️ Tickets are free! Sign up on our events website:
👉 bristol.events.mylibrary.digital
Lunchtime Talk: Writing Historical Fiction with Author David Cairns Thursday 27th November 12.30–1.30pm Holden Foyer, Bristol Central Library Join us for a free lunchtime talk with author David Cairns, who will discuss the research behind making his fiction as 'real' and accurate as possible, his inspiration from British writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, and his love of a good mystery. The talk will be followed by a Q&A. Tickets are free! Sign up on our events website:
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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🎲 BOARD GAMES DAY
📍 at Sea Mills Library
📅 Saturday 8th November
🕙 10:30am – 1:30pm
🔗 Free, please book: www.meetup.com/tabletopgame...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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🦇 Dracula & Frankenstein: their literary roots
🦇 Thursday 30th October, 7pm (Doors open 6:45pm)
🦇 A talk by Richard Gadz
🦇 Redland Library, Bristol
🦇 Admission £3 (Pay at the door - Cash only)
🦇 Presented by the Friends of Redland Library: friendsofredlandlibrary.org.uk
Text as in the post, with images of Dracula and Frankenstein books and characters, bats, and the Friends of Redland Library logo
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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👀😈Watch out there's a monster about!
👀😈 Friday 31st October at 11.15 at Westbury Library
👀 😈Songs, story and craft!
👀😈Children must be accompanied by an adult
Image of poster with monsters.
October 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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We had a FUN filled day on Saturday for @funpalaces.bsky.social weekend! ✨
Over 60 people joined us at Bristol Central Library for:
🧘 Tai Chi
🎨 Friendship bracelet making
🍄 FUNgi Haiku
👻 A spooky story
It was great to see so many people trying something new which is one of the keys to happiness! 😊
October 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🎧 STREET! launches today on #NationalPoetryDay!
A digital poetry project placing GPS-triggered soundpools outside 12 Bristol libraries.

Walk into a soundpool & hear poems about street life, neighbourhoods & local vibes.

📱 Find out more and download the app: ralphhoyte.org/home/street/
October 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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We were so pleased to welcome The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Bristol, Cllr Henry Michallat & Cllr Stephen Williams, with children & families from our libraries 🏅🌳🌼
For our Summer Reading Challenge prize-giving 🌤🌞🐸
A BIG Well done to EVERYONE who has taken part!
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group of children and the Lord Mayor in the library
September 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Image of child and parent playing chess, really having a good time.
September 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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📚 September is here and this month's Unlimited Loans on BorrowBox have arrived!

These 📖 E-books & 🎧 E-audio titles are available to borrow now - without the wait!

➡️ Browse this month's collection online here: bristol.borrowbox.com
📚 September 🎉 Unlimited Loans on BorrowBox From Bristol Libraries! 📖 E-books & 🎧 E-audio: 📘 Somebody I Used to Love – Eve Ainsworth 🏰 The Prisoner's Throne – Holly Black 🌫️ Raven Black – Ann Cleeves 📝 The Headmaster's List – Melissa De La Cruz 🐇 Raising Hare – Chloe Dalton 🕵️‍♀️ Guilty by Definition – Susie Dent 🚫 Break Every Rule – Brian Freeman 🌊 Fire on the Horizon – Imogen Robertson & Wilbur Smith 🎼 Intermezzo – Sally Rooney ⏳ The Stolen Hours – Karen Swan 🎧 E-audio only: 🌌 Big Sky – Kate Atkinson 🐶 Started Early, Took My Dog – Kate Atkinson 💕 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 🕵️‍♂️ Deborah Goes to Dover – M.C. Beaton 🏫 New Class at Malory Towers – Enid Blyton & others 📕 The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Bluebonnets – Matt Eversmann & James Patterson 📖 The Book That Broke the World – Mark Lawrence 🕯️ My Love by Candlelight – Faith Martin 👑 Murder Most Royal – Rhys Bowen 🎒 The Boy at the Back of the Class – Onjali Q. Rauf
September 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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📢 We're hiring! We're looking for a professionally qualified Stock Librarian to join our team at Bristol Central Library.

📅 Application closing date: 21st September

🔍 For the job description and person specification, search 'librarian' on the council jobs website here: www.bristol.gov.uk/jobs
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September 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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A huge thank you to author @benaaronovitch.bsky.social for his event with us on Saturday night! 🎤📚✨

It was a pleasure to host you and thank you to a wonderful audience for all of your questions. 🙏

Thanks also to @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social for selling books on the night! 📖🌟
Author giving a Q&A in a library, speaking to a seated audience with a presentation screen behind them. A display of books featuring Ben Aaronovitch's novels, including 'Amongst Our Weapons' with a blue and gold cover, surrounded by other titles and bookshelves in the background.
August 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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☀️🍦🕶️ August Unlimited Loans on BorrowBox From Bristol Libraries! This month's titles for 📚 e-books & 🎧 e-audio

📱 Download the app or browse our Borrowbox shelves online here: bristol.borrowbox.com

#bristol #libraries #summerreading #borrowbox #ebooks #eaudiobooks #audiobooks
August Unlimited Loans on BorrowBox From Bristol Libraries! 📚 E-books & 🎧 E-audio A Wedding for the Bomber Girls – Vicki Beeby City of Vengeance – D.V. Bishop The Rising Tide – Ann Cleeves One Perfect French Summer – Lucy Coleman Jericho’s Dead – William Hussey We Were Liars – E. Lockhart Heartless – Marissa Meyer Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling The Boy Who Sang with Dragons – Andy Shepherd 🎧 E-audio only When Will There Be Good News? – Kate Atkinson Dead on Target – M.C. Beaton Well Done, Secret Seven – Enid Blyton Eruption – Michael Crichton & James Patterson Things We Do For Love – Miranda Dickinson Know Your Rights – Amnesty International UK Verity – Colleen Hoover The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman Shadows in the Moonlight – Santa Montefiore Join BorrowBox here! BorrowBox. Get it now
August 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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✍️Join our Monthly Online Creative Writing Group!
🕐📆 The next session is Friday 22nd August 2-3pm.
🎟️ Book a place for FREE on our booking website: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=23558
📧 Any questions or problems, please email: library.ideas@bristol.gov.uk
Text says: Write On, Bristol! Online Creative Writing Group. Monthly Mondays or Fridays 2-3pm. Free to book on our website. Open to new and experienced writers. The infographic is of a person sitting on a big ball and holding a big pencil over their head. The Bristol Libraries logo is at the bottom alongside the Reading Agency and Reading Friends logo.
August 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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📚 Avonmouth Community Centre Association presents: An evening with Andrew Child in conversation with Roger Corke

🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/acca
🗓️ Tuesday 22nd July
🕕 6 pm to 8 pm
🚪 Doors open at 5:15 pm

#avonmouth #library #bristol #bristollibraries #avonmouthcommunitycentre #free
July 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Do you know someone who struggles to read? 📚

ReadEasy offers free and confidential one-to-one reading coaching for adults. Help someone you know improve their reading skills and gain confidence!

📧 Email: bristolnetworker@readeasy.org.uk
📞 Call: 07554 117 763
🌐 @readeasynnt.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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St Pauls Library will be closed on Saturday July 5th, including the Public Network PCs in the Cafe. This is due to the St Pauls Learning Centre being closed while St Pauls' Carnival is happening.

Junction 3 Library will remain open as normal.
St Pauls Learning Centre in Bristol
July 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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🌿 Thank you to everyone who came along to our Incredible Plants and their Secret Worlds event last night!

🌸 A huge thank you to panellists Francesca Gardener, Sarah Shuttleworth (@plantlife.loveplants) and Danny Clarke (@theblackgardener), and event chair Katherine from @britishlibrary.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Next week! ✨🌿 Join us for an evening with gardener Danny Clarke, @plantlifeuk.bsky.social botanist Sarah Shuttleworth and pastoral literature scholar Francesca Gardner for a lively discussion exploring the power and poetry of plants

📆 Monday 30th June, 7-8.30pm
🎟️ Free! Sign up on Eventbrite
June 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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📖🎭Talk and poems from Liz Brownlee at Redland Library!

📅🕐 Thursday 10th July, 7pm (Doors 6:45pm)
📚🏫 Redland Library, Whiteladies Road, Bristol
🎟️ Admission £4 (pay at the door - cash only)

📧👉For more info email: FriendsOfRedlandLibrary@gmail.com or visit: friendsofredlandlibrary.org.uk
Two front covers of books by Liz Brownlee. On the left, a book called 'Animal Magic: Poems on a disappearing world', with a beautiful illustration: grey background and two slender white birds with black legs and black necks and heads. White paint is splattered and smudged across the grey, giving the impression of snow or wind or cold. On the right is a book called 'Apes to Zebras, An A to Z of shape poems' with poems from Brownlee, but also Sue Hardy-Dawson and Roger Stevens. This cover has a white background with lots of colourful animals around the edges: snake, tortoise, tiger, gorilla, chamaeleon, tropical bird.
June 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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📢 Advance notice: Bristol Central Library Closed on Monday 7 July 📅

💻 The Central Library will be closed on Monday 7 July 2025 for essential IT maintenance work.

📚 Branch Libraries are unaffected and will be open as normal ✅

We're sorry for the inconvenience.
June 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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📚 We're hiring! 📚

Passionate about libraries and helping communities thrive? Join our team as a Library Assistant at libraries across Bristol! 🌟

✅ Fixed-term positions, various hours
✅ Variety of locations across Bristol

For more info ➡️ search 'library' on the Bristol City Council jobs website
June 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Holiday reads available in all our libraries!
Holiday reads display in southmead library: a small bookshelf full of a wide variety of books and small bookmarks reading 'pack me too'
June 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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📚 Reading Well for Families 📚 This week @readingagency.bsky.social has launched Reading Well for families to support parents and carers to look after their wellbeing in pregnancy and the early years
Promotional poster for "Reading Well for families" by The Reading Agency, offering books to support family wellbeing in pregnancy and the early years. Available at local libraries. Illustrated with books, a mug, a heart, and clouds. Website link: readingagency.org.uk/reading-well A red bookshelf display in a library promoting "Reading Well for families." The shelf features various books supporting family wellbeing, including topics like pregnancy, postnatal depression, anxiety, and parenting. A poster for the campaign is displayed on top. Surrounding shelves hold other books and audiobooks.
June 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM