Libraries Week runs from 3 to 9 October and celebrates the best libraries have to offer.
Here’s what’s on offer at our libraries over the week, alongside some of the highlights of a busy October!
2 to 4pm, Wednesday 5 October, Whitehawk Library
Join East Side Print for this creative workshop celebrating Libraries Week. Learn how to make a stencilled card or picture. Choose from our collection of stencils or be guided to make your own. All materials provided.
11am to 12 noon, Wednesday 5 October online webinar
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from dictionaries of current English, focussing is on present-day meanings.
You’ll still find present-day meanings in the OED, but you’ll also find the history of individual words, and of the language - traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
The OED started life more than 150 years ago. Updates revise and extend the OED at regular intervals, each time subtly adjusting our image of the English language.
5 October 2 to 3pm, Wednesday 5 October online webinar
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography offers over 60,000 biographies and over 11,000 portraits on significant, influential or notorious individuals who shaped British History from the Romans to the 21st Century.
The ODNB doesn’t include any living people and, each January, adds a cohort of those who died 4 years earlier. Each biography is written by an expert author who is a specialist in their field.
There are thousands of hyperlinked cross-references to other Oxford University Press reference products, such as Who’s Who as well as links to other selected websites
3.30 to 4pm, Friday 7 October, Hove Library
Live Lounge returns to Hove Library on Friday 7 October when we welcome violinist, violist and composer Marina Moore. Drop in at 3.30pm to enjoy her acoustic set.
Several libraries will feature displays this month that tell the story of local libraries highlighting the history of the buildings, services and local area.
4 to 4.30pm, Thursday 6 October, Jubilee Library
Come along to hear some brilliant poems from our collection read aloud by some of our team and friends. Why not join in the fun and bring along a poem to share, perhaps even one you’ve written yourself!
11am to 12 noon, Saturday 8 October, Jubilee Library
Over 2,000 children across Brighton & Hove participated in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge with 20 young people volunteering their time to support the 2022 science and innovation themed reading initiative.
Come along to meet other ‘Gadgeteers’ who have completed the challenge. Chat about your favourite books and pick up some recommendations of what to read next. Listen to readers share favourite extracts, or volunteer to read one yourself! Free refreshments.
Visit your local library to meet Nelly the time traveller – she’s got so many stories to tell and a bag bursting full of surprises with talking hats, a parrot and much more. Nelly needs families to help her discover imaginative ways to tell her stories. Can you help?
Drop-in to the sessions at:
Or come along to the bookable sessions:
Please book these sessions in advance by calling in at your local library, calling 01273 290 800 or emailing libraries@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Half-term family fun, including eerie stories and halloween crafts.
Drop-in from 10am to 12 noon on:
We’re holding two exhibitions at Jubilee Library to celebrate Black History Month, and our libraries have specially curated stock throughout Black History Month.
Read our Black History Month story for more details
Monday 3 to Monday 31 October, Jubilee Library community space
An exhibition of hand printed postcards created by the local community at Whitehawk Library during Refugee Week 2022.
Taking inspiration from the Refugee Week simple acts, participants worked with East Side Print to 'send a message', making two postcards - one to keep and one to send a message of friendship to a new neighbour, refugee or asylum seeker.
Monday 3 to Monday 31 October, Jubilee Library ground floor
An exhibition of scale models recreating some of Brighton's instantly recognisable and well-loved shop fronts. Made by Art & Design students from the former Bellerbys College. The 1:25 scale models are based on detailed observations and use inventive texture techniques to create real life details.
Monday 24 October to Sunday 6 November, Jubilee Library
One Bum Cinema Club is possibly the smallest cinema in the world! Come and see some seasonal shorts at Jubilee Library.
Drop by, take a seat and press the button - randomly generated short animations will appear, to surprise and delight you!
Our shorts films are contributed by film programming partners based in the region and present diverse makers and narratives. Facilitated by Fabrica on behalf of Screen Shot and part of In Dreams Art Monsters, a UK-wide cinema season supported by the National Lottery and BFI.
