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New Social Book Club

New Social Book Club

If you love reading and talking about books, there is a new Social Book Club starting at Minchinhampton Community Library, at 10.30am on Wednesday 18th January. It’ll be a relaxing informal book chat over tea and coffee, with no pressure to have read a certain book....
Stroud Library Relocation Proposal

Stroud Library Relocation Proposal

 There is a proposal to relocate Stroud Library If like me, you enjoy a visit to Stroud Library as well as our own Minchinhampton Community Library, you may be interested to know that there is a proposal to move it to the Five Valley’s shopping centre. There is a...
Opening hours extended!

Opening hours extended!

We are now opening on Thursday afternoons It has been lovely to see so many people coming back to the library, and due to popular demand we have now extended the opening hours to include Thursday afternoons from the beginning of March 2022. The opening hours on...
Summer Reading Challenge 2018

Summer Reading Challenge 2018

As this year is the 80th anniversary of the Beano comic, the home of Dennis the Menace, the childrens’ Summer Reading Challenge 2018 theme is “Mischief Makers”. On each visit to the library to borrow books, you can collect stickers to help find buried treasure....
The Domesday Book Comes to Minchinhampton

The Domesday Book Comes to Minchinhampton

Well, not actually the Domesday Book but a copy of it, along with an index and translation. It is one of only 450.  They have been kindly donated to the library on long term loan by Dr Ben Codling. The Domesday Book was completed in 1086 by order of King William the...