The latest Reading Well Books on Prescription scheme will be launched across Devon’s libraries on 2 February, to support people with dementia and their carers.
The scheme, which already helps over 275,000 people across the country with common mental health conditions feel better through self-help reading, is now turning its attention to the enormous need for quality-assured support for...
Plymouth libraries are counting down to Christmas with stories, crafts and puppet shows that are guaranteed to get families feeling festive.
Children aged five to 11 can snuggle up and enjoy some polar storytelling and heart-warming stories of winter, with cosy favourites such as Big Bear, Little Bear by Jane Chapmen and Oliver Jeffers’ Lost and Found.
Libraries from across Plymouth and the South West are taking readers on a journey to new worlds over the next three months.
The Reading Passport Challenge is encouraging people to read books from four genres they may not have tried before – the World of Darkness, World of Passion, Lyrical Worlds and Future Worlds.
Organised by Read South West – a partnership of all the South...
Plans to transform the way library services are provided in Plymouth look set to take a step forward next week.
Cabinet members will consider a three-year action plan to comprehensively review the library service and identify ways it can better meets the needs of its customers, as well as local communities.
The plan aims to deliver the Council’s pledge to ‘protect and...
More children than ever took part in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge set by Devon County Council‘s libraries to help avoid a common dip in reading ability over summer holidays.
The Council has run the Summer Reading Challenge for years, but this year they went further, encouraging physical activity among young people as well as improving reading ability.
GPs in Plymouth can now issue ‘Books on Prescription’ to help improve the health of people in the city.
Plymouth City Council’s Library Service is launching the Reading Well Books on Prescription scheme on Friday 25 October at Central Library from 11am to 2pm. The scheme gives local health professionals a core booklist covering common conditions such as anxiety, depression, phobias,...
Why go abroad this summer, when you can go on a literary journey around the beautiful South West?
Plymouth City Council’s library service has teamed up with libraries from across the region to create the South West Reading Passport, a guide to some of the best books and authors from our fair corner of the country.
All of the authors featured in the passport have either lived in...
Plymouth City Council is introducing free Wi-Fi in four city libraries.
From Thursday 4 July, customers visiting the Central Library and Plymstock, Plympton and St Aubyn libraries will enjoy free internet access on their own laptops, tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices.
This is the first phase in a roll-out of free Wi-Fi across Plymouth’s library network.
People living in Plymouth can access a ‘Money Advice’ booklet which the Council has produced with Plymouth Community Homes to help explain changes to the benefit system.
From 1 April 2013 the Government introduces the Welfare Reform Agenda which will have an impact on approximately 20 per cent of Plymouth’s working age residents. That’s around 16,000 households.
