📢Author event at Bournemouth Library this Saturday! Join Erni Salleh for the launch of her new book, The Travelling Library Chronicles of Maizey Lee. 🛤️📚Take part in FREE activities, book signing and a chance to design your own travelling library! 🖍️

Looking for something to do tomorrow? Head down to Bournemouth Library where local author, Erni Salleh, will be launching her new book, The Travelling Library Chronicles of Maizey Lee 🚐📚 Join in with FREE activities and have a go at designing your own travelling library!

We're having a wonderful time this morning at Bournemouth Library with local author, Erni Salleh! Currently cracking codes and designing travelling libraries! 🐰 🚚 📚

Part of signing up to Marvellous Makers is about using your imagination and creativity! Enter our BCP Libraries’ book cover design competition to share your love of reading and a chance of winning some great prizes! 🏆

💚🌳🐦 Come and chat to Dorset Wildlife Trust this Summer at BCP Libraries. Find out how to create wildlife friendly spaces and find our if you qualify for a Wildlife Trust Award. 🌟🐛

Good news for new parents of Poole!!! You can now receive your FREE Bookstart Baby pack directly from the Birth Registrar when you make your little one's birth official. If you've done so but didn't receive a pack- don't worry! Ask a staff member in any BCP Library.

If you’re taking part in the 2024 Summer Reading Challenge don’t forget to pop into the library to record your progress and get a new book! For every 3 books read, you can receive a free bookmark as well as collecting transformation stickers for your Marvellous Makers poster 📚

📢Our digital poetry wall is now LIVE! Click the link and explore a variety of works submitted by local poets. Are you a poet living in the BCP area? Find out how to submit your own writing to our collection below! 🧾🖋️ sites.google.com/view/bcplibrar…

🐦We have a new resident at Bournemouth Library! This Marvelous Maker has built a nest and in the scafolading outside the Children's Zone! 🥚 📚 🐣 Pop in and say hello. You can register for the Summer Reading Challenge whilst you are there!

New poetry up on the Writing on the Wall at BCP Libraries at Bournemouth Library in the Triangle. Go check them out #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity #bournemouth #amwriting BCP Council Andy Martin

BCP Libraries are offering a range of creative activities this summer, many of them completely free. Here are a few images showing just a small range of the ‘marvellous makes’ so far. Keep an eye out for more activities at your nearest library throughout August! 🎨

🐣 The baby pigeons have hatched! Come to Bournemouth Library for a chance to glimpse them. 🐦📚

We're about halfway through the 2024 Summer Reading Challenge and so proud of our Marvellous Makers! Hundreds of children have nearly read 6 books and will receive a medal and certificate. If you haven't started, there's still time! Just pop to your library branch to sign up 🏃

Please note that the LibrariesWest website and app will not be available on Saturday 10 August between 7 and 8 pm. This is due to ongoing work to help improve the website performance. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

📢 Calling all Marvellous Makers! BCP Libraries’ ‘Design a Book Cover’ competition runs until Saturday 31 August and is FREE to enter. We’ve already had some fantastic artwork coming in. Ask for an entry sheet at your library today for a chance to win some fabulous prizes 😊

This week we're sharing some of our favourite picks from The Reading Agency’s Marvellous Makers booklist! Today it’s The Gecko and the Echo by Rachel Bright and Jim Field. Find this and more on the shelves in BCP Libraries to help you finish the 2024 Summer Reading Challenge! 🏆

With two weeks left until the end of the 2024 Summer Reading Challenge, we're celebrating some of our favourite books. We love this non-fiction guide to Pop Art by Emilie Dufrense. If any BCP Marvellous Makers need reading ideas, just ‘pop’ into your local library branch! 🎉

There’s less than a week left to enter BCP Libraries’ ‘Design a Book Cover’ competition! Use your creativity to share your favourite book with us. Get your entry in by Saturday 31st August for a chance to win some epic prizes. Good luck!

There’s still time to finish the 2024 Summer Reading Challenge and earn your Marvellous Makers certificate and medal! Be as proud as these readers who completed their challenge at Springbourne Library. ✌️ 💪 📚 😎

A HUGE shout out to everyone who's already completed the 2024 Summer Reading Challenge - you're superstars! ⭐ There's still time to finish if you haven't already! Just follow these steps: 🎯 Read book number 6 🏢 Pop back to the library 🏆 Collect your MEDAL and CERTIFICATE