Volunteers lend Libraries their Love!
Here at Manchester Libraries we are all about lending – books, audio books, e-books – and lots more to the people of Manchester and the wider world. But there is another…
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ReadMCR’s guide to free online resources for families
There are a huge number of free online resources available to support children and young people while schools and libraries are closed. Many publishers and authors are offering free storytimes and activities…
Easy Puppet Theatre crafting!
For those of you at home with few craft materials here’s something you can make with an old cereal or Easter egg box and hopefully keep you entertained. You will…
Free Digital Magazines
Get digital copies of your favourite magazines sent direct to your phone or tablet for free! Anyone who is a member of any library in Greater Manchester can sign up…
Children & Families Newsletter #3
We’re really pleased to bring you our third weekly bulletin and roundup of all the best sites and activities to keep you and your family busy at home. Remember that…
The Underground Manchester Central Library
In these peculiar times of social isolation and mass toilet roll panic we are (tasteless pun alert) opening up the bowels of Manchester Central Library and focusing on its fantastic…
Easter Holiday Crafts
Rocking Spring Chicks and Hens Hello there to all our lovely children and families who love coming to the Library. At Manchester Libraries we know that you all look forward…
Celebrate Libraries Week
CELEBRATE LIBRARIES WEEK with us from 7-12 October!!! Libraries Week is a celebration of the nation’s much-loved libraries. In 2019 we are celebrating the role of libraries in the digital…
Join the search! Leo is lost at Central Library
The Ministry of Lost & Found is back at Manchester Central Library for a brand-new expedition. Fizzing with free family fun, we catch up with Creative Producer, Jude Jagger, to…
Library tour for Spirit of Manchester
An award presented to the people of Greater Manchester in recognition of their response to the Manchester Arena attack, is to go on a tour of libraries across the region.…
Peterloo 2019
This summer, Manchester will be commemorating the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre. Manchester Histories is leading Peterloo 2019, a programme of activity that will mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo…
The Ministry of Lost and Found
Watch this amazing video of The Ministry of Lost and Found – definitely one of our summer highlights! Sign up to the Library Live newsletter to hear about more great…
Manchester Histories Celebration Day
On Sunday 10 June, Central Library was proud to host the Manchester Histories Celebration Day, the centrepiece of the acclaimed Manchester Histories Festival. For the first year in its new…
Amazing way to use a library
Illuminate wows audiences and proves the possibilities are endless for Manchester libraries. Library Live, the innovative arts programme funded by Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts, has continued to…
Read Manchester is back!
This year we will be focusing primarily upon early years and young people to assist their development and love of reading. We think it’s important that the library be a…
Lighting Up Libraries
Last November, Company Chameleon transformed Manchester Central Library through dance in Illuminate, their site-specific production commissioned by Library Live. Now the Manchester dance company are touring excerpts from the production…
The Danger Tree exhibition
Experience a groundbreaking visual art exhibition at Manchester Central Library combining traditional painting with augmented reality technology. Scarlett Raven and Marc Marot’s stunning augmented reality project, The Danger Tree, opens…
Levenshulme Language Day at Arcadia Library
It was all things language at Arcadia Library. Multi-Language Manchester from Manchester University and the library brought together the local community and beyond for a cultural feast. The young…
Another Sell Out Crowd Expected at Central Library
The former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is visiting Central Library this month to talk about a remarkable 40 years on the political front line and celebrate the release of his…
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