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Take part in Nottingham City Libraries 12-week public consultation running until 19 August on proposed changes to Nottingham libraries required to make financial savings in 2023/24.
Alongside the survey, there will be opportunities to attend public information sessions to learn more and ask questions.
Share your thoughts by participating in our online survey or picking up a survey at any of our libraries.
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 Some recommended reads for June…
What Strange Paradise, Omar El Akkad | The End of Time, Gavin Extence | The Return, Hisham Matar | The Lightless Sky, Gulwali Passarlay | Exit West, Mohsin Hamid | Wandering Souls, Cecile Pin| The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak | The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy Lefteri.
 Hi Vis Fortnight, running from June 1 to 14, highlights how libraries help those who can’t access standard print continue to enjoy reading.
Our offer:
• Large print books
• Audio books on CD
• Giant print and Braille books for children and young people
• eBooks – read on your own device and change the font to suit your needs
• eAudio – download to your own device
• Listening Chain Audiobook Group meets monthly at Central Library.
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Celebrate the launch of PoGo content on our new library exhibition screens during the Nottingham Poetry Festival from 7 to 16 June.
Join us for two open mic nights, inviting local poets to share their work:
- 11 June, 3:30-5pm at St Ann’s Valley Library
- 14 June, 3:30-5pm at Strelley Road Library
PoGo is an augmented reality poetry app featuring Nottingham poets and six international poets, transforming their poems into captivating videos. Experience it at Strelley Road Library and St Ann's Valley Library.
Join us for evenings of poetic expression and community spirit!
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From Sappho and Suffragettes to t-shirts and TikTok, a fascinating journey through the culture, politics and social history of lesbian clothing.
You don’t have to be queer or fashionable to be enthralled by this hidden history of minority identity. In 'Unsuitable', Eleanor Medhurst lights it up for the world to see, in all its finery.
- Thursday 20 June, 7pm to 8.30pm at Nottingham Central Library
- Tickets from £3
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 For this month’s music and performance cabaret night, we have special guests, The Black British Ballet, coming to showcase their touring show, ‘Island Movements.’
Performing alongside them are genre-blurring Jazz quartet The Jazz Bastrds, DJ Bradley Jam and DJ Hemulen of Notts favourite Jamcafe, and more artists to be announced soon.
- Friday 21 June, 7.30pm to 10.30pm at Nottingham Central Library
- Tickets: £10
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 A Dojo is a free community programming club for young people aged 7 to 17. At a Dojo, they can learn to code, build websites, or create apps and games in an informal, creative, and safe environment.
We are excited to announce that Coder Dojo will begin at Nottingham Central Library on 18 June and will run every Tuesday from 4:30pm to 5:30pm.
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 Enjoy a range of talks, workshops and interactive sessions at Nottingham Central Library. All tickets are £5 per person.
Mark Eklik Talk: From Fact to Fiction
How a career in journalism influenced Mark's approach to writing crime thrillers, particularly when it comes to research.
- Wednesday 12 June, 5.30pm to 7pm
- Genre: CrimeÂ
- Audience: 15+ years
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Jae Malone Workshop: Motivation - Actions and Consequences
In story writing, your main character’s actions affect everyone, just like in real life. Do you always consider the full impact of these actions? Writers sometimes overlook the far-reaching consequences, leaving issues unresolved.
Join us to explore examples of motivation, action, and consequences, and learn to craft more compelling narratives.
- Saturday 29 June, 11am to 12.30pm
- Genre: Storybuilding
- Audience: 16+ years
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Jonathon Nicholas Talk: 'Who'd be a Copper?' and Other Titles
Jonathan’s experiences as a police offer are told in ‘Who’d be a Copper?’ and ‘Hospital Beat’ have always made for fascinating talks. But he also had two fairly recent books about aeroplanes and WW2, ‘Kittyhawk Down’ and ‘Vermisst’.Â
- Saturday 6 July, 1.30pm to 3pm
- Genre: Biography
- Audience: 18+ years
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 We're excited to host a series of talks and events with the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Central Library, Nottingham City Museum and Galleries, and the Virtual Immersive Production Studios to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Byron’s death.
Join us from May to August to explore Byron’s connection to Nottingham. Plus, visit our exhibition from 4 November 2024 to May 2025 for a deeper look into his legacy.
Tickets are free to talks but booking essential.Â
Dr Sam Hirst Talk: Byron and Vampires
The role Lord Byron in developing the vampire and how we owe the image of the vampire as aristocratic predator extraordinaire to Byron… although not in the way he might have hoped.
- Monday 17 June, 2pm to 4pm
- Genre: Biography
Angela Clerkin and Prof. Hannah O'Regan's Creative Writing Workshop: Byron’s Bear and Other Animals
Lord Byron kept a bear while he was a student at Cambridge, what would it be like to live with a bear and other animals, as Byron did?
- Wednesday 19 June, 2pm to 4.25pm
Dr Richard Gaunt Talk: Byron – Poet, Rebel…Politician
The political context in which Byron operated, and how his reputation as a rebel looks 200 years after his death.
- Tuesday 2 July, 11am to 12.30pm
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We’ve got a range of activities happening around the libraries; from floristry workshops to creative writing, recycled crafts and seed swapping.
 Created by students at Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies, Nottingham Trent University, this interactive fiction game series explores climate change and ways to boost positive action according to the Green Libraries Manifesto.
The games address carbon emissions, environmental waste, and future climate scenarios. With fantastic artwork and narratives, these games were crafted in just 22 weeks by students collaborating with freelance writers.
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 Come along to our brand-new after-school Board Games Club at Nottingham Central Library!
- Thursdays 3.30pm to 5pm
- Nottingham Central Library, Children’s Library
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Check out the new Reading Well for Dementia collection, featuring 20 helpful books on dementia, including information, personal experiences, and titles for children.
Some books are now available on Borrowbox. Notably, "Unforgotten" by former England rugby player, Steve Thompson is available as an eAudio book this month for unlimited borrowing. Give it a listen!
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 This year's Refugee Week theme is 'Our Home.'
Explore the experiences of those seeking refuge from conflict and oppression with our curated collections of books on refuge and finding one's way in a faraway place.
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