Edinburgh’s Social Media Surgeries are back!
Would you like some help and advice on social media and the web? Come along to McDonald Road Library next Monday evening (21st January) any time between 5.30 and 7.30pm and get the heads up from the experts.

If you or someone you know is preparing for the citizenship test and have reached Intermediate level English or above this will be of interest.
Starting 23rd January we’ll be holding drop-in sessions for applicants where an ESOL tutor will be on hand to give help and advice on the test. This will run from 5.30 – 7.30pm every Wednesday from 23rd January through to 20th March.

Some facts about HIV:

We’re celebrating Book Week Scotland with the help of some very special guests. Book now for the following events:

If you or someone you know is preparing for the citizenship test and have reached Intermediate level English or above this will be of interest.
Starting 7th November we’ll be holding drop-in sessions for applicants where an ESOL tutor will be on hand to give help and advice on the test. This will run from 5.30 – 7.30pm every Wednesday from 7th November through to 19th December.

Here are just some of our events during October.  Check with your local library to find out what’s happening in your area.

Our ESOL Chatabout reading groups are a great way to improve your English, make friends and have fun. These friendly, informal reading groups are ideal for adult students learning English as a Second Language, at Intermediate Level, and are most definitely NOT English classes!
Over the past few months we’ve been reading The Little One by Lynda la Plante: a creepy ghost story that makes you want to sleep with the light on.

Libraries were well and truly gripped by Olympic fever over the past few weeks as our picture gallery shows.
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Granton hosted what we are pretty sure was the first Zumba class to take place in one of our libraries. The  4 to 14 year olds (and library staff) who took part found that keeping fit really can be fun.

It’s that time of year again. Time for our annual plea not to throw away those festival programmes, leaflets and flyers but to hand them in to grateful Edinburgh and Scottish Collection staff.

Everybody has an old favourite poem and, over the years, I’ve had a chance to read most of them. Over and over again — ‘Daffodils’ and ‘My Lurve is like a Red Red Rose’ and ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ and a handful of other regulars come up every session or two.Truly, it is a delight to read these poems and watch the lips of those who’ve memorised them move in time — “Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee…”.
However, it is always splendid to be surprised and this group at McDonald Road Library were calling out poems I’d never had the opportunity to read out.