Cork County Council Library & Arts Service has 25 branches & 4 mobile libraries covering an area of nearly 7,500 and serving a population of over 360,000.
Prince Harry's memoir Spare has been crowned the fastest-selling non-fiction book in the UK since records began in 1998. 👑
Here are a few ‘spare’ copies that are heading to branches.
Request the book online or in your local branch to join the waiting list and reserve a copy.
They say there’s gold at the end of the rainbow, and at Cork County Council Library branches you can follow our rainbow stickers to discover a treasure-trove of LGBTQ+ titles! 🌈
#IDAHOBIT23
#IDAHOBIT
@Corkcoco
Make it your New Year's resolution to join the library
* No membership fees/late return fines
* Borrow 12 items for up to 3wks
* Use your library card anywhere in the country
* Fantastic online service - eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines etc
The time is now.....your time is now 😊
📚As Library Ireland week draws to a close we just want to remind you that in our libraries there is a space on our shelves for everyone.
😀We always look forward to seeing you at our libraries & we believe that we can provide something for everyone.
#LIW23
@LibrariesIre
The
@AnPostIBAS
winner of Junior Children’s Book of the Year 2021, ‘A Hug For You’ by David King, is now heading out to every library in
#Cork
County! 📚
Huge congrats to David, Adam and everyone involved in its creation 💜
@PenguinBooks
@LibrariesIre
@AdamKingIRL
✨
To celebrate International Transgender Day of Visibility, any transgender or gender diverse person across Cork county can contact us on March 31st to join the library or update their membership info to reflect their preferred gender & name. More at
#TDOV
If anything embodies the theme of ' Librarians transforming lives', we feel our
#MobileLibrary
Service does.
4 mobiles, cover 7,500 , with a team of 8 - Angela, Deirdre, Helen, Mary, Nora, Peter, Siobhan & Zillah - making over 350 stops a fortnight
#LIW2018
Did you see us on Nationwide? We're very proud of our mobile library service & look forward to being back on the road. If you are cocooning, our Community Call Housebound Library Service can bring books or a musical instrument to your door 1800 805 819
#StayAtHome
#InThisTogether
During the
#lockdown
, we delivered 1,951 boxes of books to those cocooning as part of the Housebound Service! We also set up a Book Collection Service & from this week, we are returning to our old ways of providing you with books
#YourCouncilDay
@Corkcoco
Well done to Sophie Peare from Kinsale- our next
#OneCountyOneBook
art competition winner! 🎉
Sophie painted this brilliant interpretation of the 'Kaperosa' figure from Caroline O'Donoghue's novel, who is also know as the 'Housekeeper' or 'White Lady' 📚
Congratulations! 😀
Did you know when Ukuleles are presented in a row/tight cluster they're known as a 'temptation'?
This 'temptation' awaits a trip to St Matthias N.S Ballydehob on
#WestCork
#MobileLibrary
Due to
@creativeirl
funding,
#ASoundInitiative
, our free musical instrument loan scheme grows
Every child has been affected by
#COVID19
, from closing of schools to not being able to meet friends. Why not get them to write a few lines about how they’ve been affected & send it to localstudieslibrary
@corkcoco
.ie, where we will keep it safe for future generations to read.
Go on a blind date with a book from
#Midleton
library! 💕
Call in and take a chance on one of their mystery novels- you never know what could happen! 🤔📚
#SqueezeInARead
#TakeACloserLook
✨
Congratulations to Noel O'Mahony on his retirement from
#Bantry
library!
Noel has 37 years of service as Bantry librarian, and 45 years of service overall in the library service. We wish Noel the very best!
@Corkcoco
@wcorklitfest
@LibrariesIre
We're delighted to share with you today the 1st of a 2-part
#IrelandReads
video series with author
@ManchanMagan
! He found time to
#SqueezeInARead
with his travel books, where he journeyed in Africa. Take a look below- part 2 coming soon!
@LibrariesIre
📚
If you have the pleasure of visiting to Sherkin Island please do call in to say hello. Remember everyone can borrow from & return to any public Library in the Republic of Ireland once you bring your Library card!
#SherkinLibrary
#Sherkin
#SherkinIsland
#librarytourism
To celebrate
#InternationalWomensDay2020
,
#ClonakiltyLibrary
will host crime writer Catherine Kirwan on Saturday 7th March at 11:00am. Catherine will perform a reading from her novel 'Darkest Truth' followed by a Q&A session. This event is free but booking is required.
#IWD2020
An item of stock made it's way back to us today after a 49 year loan!
It's fair to say rule 1 has been well and truly broken!
#overduelibrarybook
#Summerof69
Celebrating 100 years of women's suffrage at Cork County Library HQ with this slideshow of remarkable Irish women. On display today and tomorrow from 5-11pm.
#Illuminateherstory
#breakingdownbarriers
We're delighted to announce that we've been awarded the
#RighttoRead
Award for our work in 2020! 🏆🎉
Pictured below are Right to Read Coordinator Dolores Casey, and County Librarian Emer O'Brien. We're looking forward to carrying on our work, this year and into the future! 😀📚
Bandon Library’s Sensory Nook is a quiet sanctuary, designed to support library users with sensory sensitivities, who may sometimes find visiting the library an overwhelming experience.
For more information, please contact Bandon Library at 023-8844830
The team in
#Bandon
Library were thrilled to welcome local author Leona Forde & her daughter Asha when they popped in to show us copies of her new children’s book- Milly McCarthy is a complete catastrophe.
@Gill_Books
#IrelandReads
#SqueezeInARead
Sunday brings
#LIW2018
to a close.
The theme this year was 'Librarians transforming lives', so we'll finish with a little nod to our frontline staff.
We couldn't manage a group photo, but we've put together a little video to show some of the faces
#transforminglives
every day!
Explore Cork’s rich history, archaeology, heritage and folklore in the Irish Tourist Association surveys from the 1940s. Survey results for over 90 parishes in Cork can be viewed at
Check out the window display at Cork County Library HQ decked out in celebration of the launch of
@KidsBooksIrel
#ReadingMatters
campaign. 📚✨
Call into your local branch for more information and to pick up a copy of the Reading Guide. 🤓
Today's
#BookshopReads
is
@BantryBookshop
! Owned by sisters Kate & Marney, the shop is now fulfilling all orders by post, and can
#SqueezeInARead
while they're at it! Contact the shop by phone ☎️089 412 1800, email💻bantrybookshop
@gmail
.com, or visit 📚
We hope you're all enjoying this fine weather with a good book to hand! We'll be back after the weekend to help you with all your book quests 😉
#librarieswhereshhhhappens
#libraryhumour
It's
#ScienceWeek
and we've books on the brain!!!
Your local library is a wonderful resource for all your scientific knowledge queries this week...and beyond.
Pop in and grab a great science read....you'll be in your element
👩🔬🔬👨🔬
@CorkScience
@ScienceWeek
@LibrariesIre
.
#Bantrylibrary
is finally starting to recover from the non-stop week that is the
@wcorklitfest
This year alone almost 1,200 festival goers passed the Library's threshold.
So if you've never headed 'West' in July, mark your 2020 diary now!
#WhatLibrariesDo
#LoveLibraries
Make it your New Year's resolution to join!!
* No membership fees
* No fines
* Check out 12 items
* Use your library card anywhere in
the country
* A fantastic online services
#eBooks
,
#eAudiobooks
,
#eMagazines
,
#eNewspapers
,
#eLearning
The time is now.....your time is now 😊
#KinsaleLibrary
are starting an Irish conversation group / Ciorcal Comhrá for all levels who would like to practice their Gaeilge with others. 👏😀🇮🇪
Please contact Kinsale library if you are interested. 🍀
Congratulations to Lauren Hubert, 3rd place winner of our
#OneCountyOneBook
music competition! 🎉
Lauren was inspired by Caroline O'Donoghue's novel 'All Our Hidden Gifts'. She visited
#Kinsale
library to collect her prize of a Pro Musica voucher 🎶
Well done Lauren! 😀
The theme of this year's Library Ireland Week is 'Librarians transforming lives'.
We would like our library users to share stories about what their library or library staff mean to them. Make sure & include
#LIW2018
in your post, as the best story over the week wins an iPad.
On your bike! 🚲
#Carrigaline
library is delighted to introduce its brand new bike racks, which have just been added outside the library- thank you to everyone who helped make this happen! Take a spin on two wheels this weekend and stock up on reading material for Christmas! ☃️
In celebration of this year's
#TransDayOfVisibility
we will offer a change of Library account details service for any transgender or gender diverse person over 18 years. 🏳️⚧️
A dedicated phone line will be available throughout the day (021 4285603). 📱
#YouAreEnough
#TDoV
Things are a bit trína chéile for
#ClonakiltyLibrary
lately with flood prevention works being carried out around us.
Some days it's a bit of a challenge, but other days there's unexpected moments of beauty - like this little fireworks display.
Enjoy life's smaller moments 😉
Meet Claire.
Just back from maternity leave she was keen for the library to provide a social outlet for new parents. Mixing rhymes, storytime, adult conversation & a cuppa, we think she's hit upon a great recipe for
#transforminglives
with the 'Baby Bear' sessions
#LIW2018
We have a special video today from one of our
#IrelandReads
Reading Ambassadors- author & columnist
@oneilllo
! 🎉
Louise has shared with us what reading means to her, and how she plans to
#SqueezeInARead
on February 25th. Are you going to do the same? 📚
@LibrariesIre
✨
It’s fine, there’s no fines!!
Just a gentle reminder- it’s never too late to return any overdue library books 📚
These two gems on Fly Fishing from the 1960s were recently brought back to
#Clonakilty
Library… after an unexpectedly long loan of 38 years! 🤭
#Clonakilty
library is all decked out for
@corkpride
! 🌈✨
As well as great
#LGBTQIA
book titles, their display includes the excellent work of their junior patrons, who decorated their very own rainbows for the branch's
#Pride2021
colouring competition. Well done to you all! 😀