Northumberland County Council

Tickbox by Lubna Kerr at Ashington Library

03 Mar 2022

Join us at Ashington Library for a performance of 'Tickbox' is a semi-autobiographical, bilingual, one woman play, told in Scots-English and Urdu.

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Théâtre Sans Frontières presents Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band

03 Mar 2022

Delve into the highly deductive mind of a super sleuth in this new production of one of the most popular Sherlock Holmes stories.

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Reading for Wellbeing is expanding

09 Feb 2022

Following the success of the project in Newbiggin, we are offering the service on the telephone and online and we will soon be expanding sessions into Lynemouth and beyond.

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Celebrating Local Authors at Berwick Library

09 Feb 2022

Join local authors, Jessie Greengrass and Christie J Newport in conversation with Jackie Kaines-Lang.

Author Afternoon with Susan Lewis

08 Feb 2022

Listen to the fabulous Susan Lewis, talking about her brand new title, "Who's Lying Now" and her work to date.

Free access to family history websites

01 Feb 2022

You can access Ancestry and Findmypast for free from the public computers in your local library

Harry Potter Book Night

21 Jan 2022

When it comes to Harry Potter, just one night is never enough, so we’ve decided to take a whole week to celebrate our favourite boy wizard.

Further Footsteps

18 Jan 2022

The In My Footsteps project will be continuing until the spring

Christmas opening hours in libraries

02 Dec 2021

Our libraries will be operating different opening hours over the festive period.

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BorrowBox December titles available with no wait

01 Dec 2021

Take a look at the selection of great titles guaranteed to be available on BorrowBox this month.

Join the Winter Mini Challenge

30 Nov 2021

The Winter Mini Challenge is running in all our libraries this Christmas.

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Learn a new language with BorrowBox

11 Nov 2021

Discover a brand new range of language learning now available in our digital library.

Get online. Get reading

12 Oct 2021

Celebrate Get Online Week from 18-24 October 2021.

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Newbiggin: Reading for Health and Wellbeing

05 Oct 2021

Northumberland Library Service have teamed up with UK Health Security Agency, Newcastle and Northumbria universities and community organisations to launch this one-year scheme to see how reading can improve the health of people with chronic pain, anxiety, depression and for those who may be socially isolated.