Library Opening Hours Mon, 22nd Dec, 2pm – 5pm, open Tues, 23rd Dec – CLOSED Weds, 24th Dec – CLOSED Thurs, 25th Dec – CLOSED Fri, 26th Dec – CLOSED Sat, 27th Dec, 10am – 12pm, open Sun 28th Dec to Fri 2nd Jan – CLOSED From Saturday 3rd January, normal hours resume.
Digital Drop In Weds, 3rd December – open Weds, 10th December – open Weds, 17th December – open Weds, 24th and 31st, December – CLOSED Weds, 7th January – open
Wriggly Readers Tues, 2nd December – open Tues, 9th December – open Tues, 16th, 23rd, 30th December – CLOSED
Board Games Group Tues, 9th December – open Tues, 16th December – open Tues, 23rd December – open Tues, 30th December – open
Busy Hands and Minds Fri, 5th December, 1:30pm – 3:30pm – open
Join us for some Christmas fun at our Winter Fair, a part of the Light Up Narborough event – dress up & take a selfie, hunt the red noses, and name the penguin. There will be a free children’s activity, children’s lucky dip, and children’s book sale. For everyone else there will be a tombola and stalls selling unique handmade gifts.
Details:
🗓️ Saturday, 6th December, 2025,
⏰ 2:15pm – 4:15pm
đź“Ť Narborough and Littlethorpe Community Library, Station Road, Narborough
Those completing the Summer Reading Challenge are invited to join us for a craft event on Monday 21st July, at the library on 11am – 1pm. We will be sowing seeds, painting rocks and more!
Tickets are ÂŁ2 and can be bought at the library, there are a set amount of tickets available so you can’t be guaranteed a place without prior booking.
SRC Craft Event
Monday, 21st July, 11am-1pm
At Narborough and Littlethorpe Community Library
Tickets ÂŁ2, from the library
There’s still plenty of time to join the Summer Reading Challenge itself, it’s free to join anytime during normal library opening hours. See our previous post for more information.
Our summer fair will be on Saturday 14th June, 2025, from 2-4pm at the library.
We will have handcrafted toys and gifts for sale as well preloved books.
There will also be a tombola and children’s lucky with fantastic prizes to be won, or you could win a bottle of wine on our bottle-bola!
We will also have a free children’s activity.
It will also be the last chance to buy raffle tickets, as we will be drawing the winner at 3:30pm. We have lots of prizes including a hamper, phone and meal vouchers, so be sure to get your ticket!
This is an important fundraising event, so come along and support your local library.
Summer Fair Saturday, 14th June, 2025 2-4pm Narborough and Littlethorpe Community Library, Station Road, Narborough
We have been celebrating English authors for St George’s day month at the library. We have a wonderful display with art by our volunteer Maddy, and a selection of hand picked books for you to discover. Here’s a closer look at a few of the titles.
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie’s empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho’s gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost.
We say: This is about the dark under belly of London when two girls try to make it in the entertainment business.
An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A 30-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox, and a group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size, deep in the Amazon jungle. Here, Mark Haddon demonstrates two things: first that he is a master of the short form, and second that his imagination is even darker than we had thought.
We say: a dark and emotional collection of short stories
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Towsend
Teenager Adrian writes candidly about his parents’ marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and ‘misunderstood intellectual’. His painfully honest diary makes hilarious and compelling reading.
We say: suitable for teenagers, YA, and adults, this is a humourous diary about school life and separation of a child’s parents
Our new computer system is now live! Our volunteers have risen to the challenge and are figuring out intricacies of the new system, finding new features as they go. As our librarians have their first shifts on the new system they may be a bit slower than usual in processing your books as we want to make sure that everything is done correctly. We thank you in advance for your patience.
The new system up and running means that you can now reserve books to pick up at the library (ÂŁ1 fee applies) and use Borrowbox as usual.
In January, we held an afternoon tea party for our volunteers and friends of the library to thank them for their support in 2024. It was a lovely afternoon, with tea, sweet treats and a quiz. These social events are fantastic ways for our volunteers to socialise.
To become a friend of the library we ask for a donation of a minimum of ÂŁ10, but larger donations are gratefully received, membership lasts for the financial year. By becoming a friend of the library you are helping the library stay open as we are completely self-funded, and this scheme provides incredibly valuable income. Friends of the library get newsletters emailed to them throughout the year and are included in an annual draw to win a small gift. To become a friend of the library please come in and fill out a form.
In the summer we will be holding a summer fayre with a tombola, if anyone has any unwanted gifts or suitable items for tombola prizes, we would gladly accept any donations. Again, these events are vital for the financial stability of the library.
Our non-fiction book stock has had a boost last month. We have lots of biographies, including Sonny Boy (Al Pacino), and Boris Johnson’s autobiography, and books covering health and history. If you don’t know what to have for dinner, we have a batch of new cook books including baking, easier recipes, high protein and vegetarian. Or, if you want to get away we have a selection of travel guides, explore London, Crete, Denmark or China, come to the library and decide where your next holiday will be.
The new year has seen the last of our original five trustees step down as her maximum term of nine years has been completed. Most of our library regulars will know Maggie, pictured below on the left with our chair of trustees, Helen. Maggie led the group who turned Narborough Library into a community managed library, thus saving the library from closure. She has worked tirelessly over the years not only behind the counter but also organising events, fundraising, and being a general beacon of knowledge for everyone else who volunteers at the library. She is carrying on as a volunteer, but we want to say a huge thank you to Maggie for her hard work and dedication to the library. At an afternoon tea we presented her with gifts, including a planter (she is an avid gardener and some of you would have bought her plants from our plant sales), and a book about her time at the library, and the important work she has done for the community.
Throughout March we will be celebrating women’s authors and characters for International Women’s Day (March 8th), come and take a look at our display and recommended books.
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