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The Open University Open Learn

Libraries NI Learning Hub - the portal is part of The Open University’s (OU) free learning site OpenLearn which is an educational resource, offering over a thousand courses and 15,000 hours of educational interactives, videos, articles and more. Check out this amazing resource now.
Community Helpdesk

Make the most of your local library this autumn and winter - we may be able to help you or someone you know. Find out more.
People on devices using Wi-Fi

Parents and students - make use of free Wi-Fi at your local library now! Library Members can use our Wi-Fi on their personal devices including mobile phones and laptops. Find out more.
PRONI 100 Celebrating A Century

PRONI Libraries Tour - celebrating its centenary, PRONI is taking some of its most interesting records on the road, visiting Enniskillen Library on 14th December, with further visits, including to Lurgan Library, planned for the New Year. Find out more.

Features

Christmas lights switch on

Twelve days of Christmas celebrations at Belfast Central Library! The cast of the Lyric Theatre's Christmas show, 'Hansel and Gretel', will kick off the celebrations on Friday 1 December at 3:00pm with a special Christmas lights switch on event. Click here to find out more.
Book Week NI 2023 guest author speakers

If you missed our fascinating author events for Book Week NI then you can watch them back now. Click here to view.
Book Week NI 2023 Podcast

SongBooks series on The Libraries NI Podcast - to celebrate Book Week NI we published an episode each day for a week in October. Each episode features two books and two songs with some startling revelations. Have a listen!
The world of books according to our Jillian

Meet the author, Brian Bilston in the latest Just Jillian blog post. You can listen to Jillian's short interview with Brian too! Click here to view.
Hatha Yoga

Get Moving with Libraries NI - free sessions are running from now until the middle of March 2024, Libraries NI will be hosting a series of online sessions designed to boost your wellbeing. These are free Yoga and Chi Me events. Find out more and register now.
Diabetes Self-Management digital magazine

eMag of the week is Diabetes Self-Management magazine. Download for free on Libby.

Book Recommendations

Staff Picks, favourites and reviews!


Rizzio by Denis Mina

Rizzio by Denise Mina

It's Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She's hosting a supper party. Outside, Edinburgh is bustling. It's full of the Great and the Good and the Idiot Sons of the Rich, here for a Parliament that will take Scotland by the shoulders and turn it from England to face Europe. Mary doesn't know that her Palace is surrounded - that, right now, an army of men is creeping upstairs to her chamber.…

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Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce

Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce

A beautiful book…I didn’t want to finish it.  It was fast paced and quirky. 

The story focuses on two women, Enid and Margery, one middle aged and frumpy and the other beautiful and uneducated - two complete opposites.

They are brought together in their unlikely quest to find a mythical beetle that may or may not exist. The story is full of adventure and humour that veers on the slapstick and if it was a movie would be like a…

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