Tales of One City
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Edinburgh Libraries are “innovative on so many fronts, full of energy, bang up to date and unafraid of the future. This is a template for libraries everywhere to be inspired by”. This is how the judges of 'The Bookseller' magazine's Library of the Year Award described them. But one should not take their word for it - visit the local library and see for yourself.
Tales of One City
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Community councils are groups of people who care about their community and want to make it a better place to live. As well as representing the community to the council and our partners, including the Police and NHS, they run ..read more
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Edinburgh Libraries opening times over Christmas and Hogmanay will be Tuesday 24 December – all libraries close at 5pmWednesday 25 December – closedThursday 26 December – closedFriday 27 December – normal opening hoursSaturday 28 December – normal opening hoursMonday 30 ..read more
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Simmerdim: noun(Scot) the long summer twilight in the far North of Scotland, when the sun briefly dips below the horizon and there is no true darkness. With the temperature gauge falling and the days getting shorter, it is difficult to imagine days ..read more
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Join the Pisconians on Thursday 5 December in our beautiful Reference Library at Central Library for an evening of jazz. The Pisconians are a UK jazz hip hop fusion band led and formed by singer songwriter/producer Tremaine. They combine a ..read more
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This month in the Art and Design Library we’ve been looking further along our printmaking shelves and have put together a display on the printmaking process of WOODCUT. The origins of woodcut as a printmaking process are very old. Woodcut ..read more
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Central Library was delighted to welcome a couple of special visitors last Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Strange from Dumfries had been treated to a weekend getaway in Edinburgh by their family to celebrate their 60th anniversary. Whilst in the city ..read more
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The subject of our latest Capital Collections exhibition, is Moubray House on the High Street, one of Edinburgh’s oldest residential houses. You would be excused for just passing it by on the way to the more well-known building next door ..read more
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For the next instalment in the Our Town Stories series looking at the city’s history over the past 900 years, we turned to our friends at the Museum on the Mound to tell the story of Edinburgh 900 – City ..read more
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Edinburgh Libraries have developed a Future Libraries Draft Strategy. It provides a framework for service delivery and development for public and school libraries over the next five years. The plan will help us adapt to the needs of our city while addressing ..read more
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We are holding another UK Together We Read digital book club, giving unlimited access to a popular ebook The Story Collector by Evie Woods from 23 October – 6 November. Access it through the Libby app or Libby website. In a quiet ..read more