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Category Archives: Aberdeenshire
Bookbug’s Friends!
Hill of Banchory Family Centre was the venue for one of the many Bookbug Week events being held across Aberdeenshire last week. Pre school groups from Banchory and Torphins attended the morning event which was packed with fun activities for … Continue reading
Posted in Aberdeenshire, Libraries, Young People
Tagged Bookbug, craft, fun, music, outdoor teaching, under 5s
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Have you got your Bookbug Library Challenge certificate yet?
Bookbug’s Library Challenge will come to an end this Saturday 29th April. Children under the age of 5 have been busy collecting Bookbug stamps for their Collectors Card. When the card is full they can choose from a range of … Continue reading
Bookbug at Westhill
Bookbug continues his journey around Aberdeenshire to join in Bookbug Sessions. This week he visited Westhill Library where families welcomed him and he managed to do actions to Incey Wincey Spider and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star! These are 2 of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bookbug, Bookbug Sessions, Bookbug's Library Challenge
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“Our Lives”
The Huntly Express and associated group of newspapers have produced a book entitled “Our Lives” which is based on a yearlong project where readers were asked to submit photographs of events and everyday happenings in their lives. The book is a pictorial … Continue reading
Mearns Readers Day June 2015
Very remiss of me not to have posted sooner about this excellent day. A great time was had by all on a beautiful sunny June Saturday in Laurencekirk. The new Mearns Community Library was a fantastic venue for our annual Readers … Continue reading
An Evening with Christopher Brookmyre
Bestselling Scottish author Christopher Brookmyre will be appearing at the Acorn Centre, Inverurie as a guest of Aberdeenshire Libraries, at 7.00pm on Wednesday 11th. March. He’ll be talking about his writing and in particular, his recently published thriller ‘Dead Girl Walking’ Fans … Continue reading
Zinio eMagazines
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if you could pick up your favourite magazines at any time, at any location and free of charge. Well with Aberdeenshire Libraries you can do just that, we have 100 of the very best titles waiting … Continue reading
Hard Vrocht Grun
A new World War One resource for schools, the Hard Vrocht Grun, was launched last week by Aberdeenshire Council’s Heritage Education Partnership – Libraries, Archives, Registrars, Arts Education and individual researchers. The purpose of the resource is to guide pupils through … Continue reading
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Tagged First World War, Great War
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Local and Family History drop-in session
As part of the World of Words Festival 2014 in Inverurie we are holding a drop-in session upstairs in Inverurie Library on Friday 5th September from 2 pm – 4 pm. This is an opportunity to discuss Local and Family History … Continue reading
Posted in Aberdeenshire, Events, Family History, Local History
Tagged Inverurie Library, the Great War, War Memorial, World War One, WW1
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Peter May in Conversation with Fiona Stalker
Inverurie’s World of Words 2014 festival gets underway on the 29th. August with a great week of events for all ages. Great news for all fans of bestselling and award-winning author Peter May as he will be appearing in the town’s Acorn … Continue reading
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