Thursday, December 20, 2012

Christmas Opening Hours!



Sligo Central Library.
Closed 5pm Friday 21st December 2012
Reopen 9.30am Wednesday 2nd January 2013 (Limited Service*)

Local Studies & Reference Library.
Service unavailable until further notice **

Ballymote Community Library.
Closed 5pm Friday 21st December 2012
Reopen 9.30am Wednesday 2nd January 2013

Tubbercurry Community Library.
Closed 5pm Friday 21st December 2012
Reopen 9.30am Wednesday 2nd January 2013

Enniscrone Branch Library.
Closed 5pm Friday 21st December 2012
Reopen 3pm Wednesday 2nd January 2013

* Due to the Central Library building in Stephen Street Sligo sustaining some structural damage over the first weekend of December remedial work is due to commence. This work is estimated to take four weeks to complete. In the meantime, library members are welcome to return their books and items on loan to the Local Studies desk in the library building during Central Library’s regular opening hours. We are able to offer a limited lending service from the same location.

** As the Local Studies section is being utilised for discharging books & offering limited lending facilities, its normal research service will not be available.

For normal opening hours of each of the library service points please click here

We apologise for any inconvenience caused & wish all our customers a very peaceful Christmas and Happy New Year!

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Press Release: Temporary closure of Central Library


The ceiling in the Central Library building in Stephen Street Sligo sustained some structural damage over the weekend of December 1st. This has resulted in the temporary closure of the Central Library and Local Studies library. A structural assessment has now been conducted under Sligo County Council’s health & safety procedures and remedial work is due to commence. This work is estimated to take four weeks to complete.



In the meantime, library members are welcome to return their books and items on loan to the Local Studies desk in the library building during Central Library’s regular opening hours. We are able to offer a limited lending service from the same location. As the Local Studies section is being utilised for discharging books, its normal research service will not be available. Limited Internet access is now also available from the Local Studies area.

Sligo Library members may use our community libraries in Tubbercurry and Ballymote and may also utilise the Mobile Library Service, details and timetable of which can be found on http://www.sligolibrary.ie/sligolibrarynew/ServicesandResources/MobileLibrary/  Finally members can use their user id and pin number to renew books on-line here or ring us on 071 9111681.

Sligo County Library regrets any inconvenience caused to our members by this temporary disruption to service.

12th December 2012.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Temporary closure of Sligo Central Library


The ceiling in the Central Library building in Stephen Street Sligo has sustained some structural damage over the weekend, resulting in the temporary closure of the Central Library and Local Studies library until such time as a structural assessment has been conducted under Sligo County Council’s health and safety procedures.

In the meantime, library members are welcome to return their books and items on loan to the Local Studies desk in the library building during Central Library’s regular opening hours. Unfortunately it will not be possible to issue books at present. As the Local Studies section is being utilised for discharging books, its normal services, research and computer access, will not be available.



The assessment of the building is currently underway, and once this process is complete, the appropriate remedial works can be undertaken. During this process the lending section of Central Library will remain closed. Once we get an indication that it is appropriate to reopen, the public will be advised.

Sligo Library members may use our branch libraries in Tubbercurry and Ballymote if that is suitable. Members can also use their user id and pin number to renew books on-line here

Sligo County Library regrets any inconvenience caused to our members by this temporary disruption to service.




Friday, November 23, 2012

Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards 2012

Olympic boxing gold medallist Katie Taylor, John Banville, Eoin Colfer, Catherine Fulvio, Jennifer Johnston, Edna O'Brien, Mary O'Rourke and the late Maeve Binchy were among those honoured at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards at the RDS in Dublin on Thursday night.



Taylor won Sports Book of the Year for My Olympic Dream, Binchy was posthumously honoured with the Eason Popular Fiction Book of the Year for A Week in Winter, while Banville won the Eason Novel of the Year award for Ancient Light. Johnston was presented with the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to Irish literature.

RTÉ Radio 1's John Murray Show Listeners' Choice Award went to Mary O'Rourke for her memoir Just Mary. RTÉ Television will broadcast highlights of the Claire Byrne-hosted awards on RTÉ One on Saturday, November 24 at 11:05pm. Further category winners were;

Edna O'Brien won the Argosy Non-Fiction Book of the Year for Country Girl.
Tana French won the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Book of the Year for Broken Harbour.
The Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year went to Donal Ryan for The Spinning Heart.
The Specsavers Children's Book of the Year Junior category was won by Oliver Jeffers for This Moose Belongs to Me, while Eoin Colfer won the Senior category for Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian.
The Avonmore Cookbook of the Year award went to Catherine Fulvio for Eat Like an Italian.
The International Education Services Best Irish Published Book of the Year was John Crowley, William J Smyth and Mike Murphy's Atlas of the Great Irish Famine.
Bridge Street Books in Wicklow Town was named Bord Gáis Energy Bookshop of the Year.

Over 42,000 votes were cast by members of the public, and voting is now open for the overall Bord Gáis Energy Book of the Year at www.irishbookawards.ie, with the winner announced on Monday December 17.  (RTE website 23/11/12)


Friday, November 9, 2012

Library Ireland Week 2012


Library Ireland Week 2012, the 7th year of Library Ireland Week, celebrates and highlights the role of libraries in the community.

Sligo Libraries are pleased to announce the following events which are scheduled to take place in various library branches over the week 12th to 18th November 2012.

Declan Burke Sligo Central Library. Tuesday 13th November 6-7pm.


Eoin McNamee Tubbercurry Library. Thursday 15th November 1-2pm.


Brian Leyden & Gerry Harrington (Author & Musician) Ballymote Library, Thursday 15th November 6-7pm.
           

Rena Gallogly “The Shadow of the Mountain” Book launch. Sligo Central Library, Friday 16th November 6.30pm.

 
Pauline McLynn Tubbercurry Community Library: 10.45am. to 11.45am. Friday 16th November for students attending St. Attracta's Community School, Tubbercurry.
Ballymote Community Library: 1.45pm. to 2.45pm. Friday 16th November for students attending Corran College and Coláiste Mhuire




Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Bank Holiday Closure : Library Notice



Sligo Library service branches will be closed over the October Bank Holiday Weekend : Saturday 29th October 2012.

To renew items please use the "Renew my Books" link on the top right hand side of the Library Homepage www.sligolibrary.ie  or on the top right hand side of this blogsite. Remember if items have fallen by their due date you will unable to renew by this method and will have to ring your nearest branch in order for staff to renew for you. To get full details of your nearest branch please visit www.sligolibrary.ie and select "Our Branches" from the left hand navigation column. Here you will find full contact details and the next available opening hours of your selected branch.

Sligo County Libraries apologise in advance for any inconvenience caused.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Reading in Sligo Museum this Saturday!

Reading Alice in Wonderland



Lewis Carroll's children's masterpiece will be read in its entirety at the Co. Sligo Museum, Stephen Street, Sligo by various local artists and performers. So drop in for a minute, a chapter or as long as you like....

When: 20th October 2012, 2.30-5pm
Where: Sligo County Musuem
Admission free

For more information please visit www.themadhattersligo.com

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Central Library revised opening hours!

Revised Opening hours come into effect starting Monday 1st October 2012




  • Monday Closed
  • Tuesday 9.30am - 7pm
  • Wednesday 9.30am - 5pm
  • Thursday 9.30am - 5pm
  • Friday 9.30am - 5pm
  • Saturday Open: 9.30am - 1pm. Closed for lunch: 1pm - 2pm. Open: 2pm - 5pm*
  • Sunday Closed
*Closed on Saturday before public holidays

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Irish Writer wins prestigious award in UK

Author and columnist Martina Devlin has been named 2012 winner of the Royal Society of Literature's prestigious VS Pritchett Memorial Prize.



Martina Devlin is the winner of the annual award for an unpublished story which is now in its 13th year. It was founded by the Royal Society of Literature at the beginning of the millennium, to pay tribute to the writer VS Pritchett. This year's judges were Jane Gardam, Aamer Hussein and Penelope Lively and the prize will be awarded in London in November. The winning piece is called Singing Dumb and is about a young girl in a rural community minding her three-year-old brother who, unfortunately, is run over by a car.

Ms Devlin has won a Hennessy Literary Prize and has been shortlisted twice for the Irish Book Awards. She writes a weekly column for the Irish Independent and contributes regularly to RTÉ Radio One's Sunday Miscellany.
(rte website; 20/9/2012)


Thursday, September 13, 2012

Man Booker Prize shortlist 2012 announced!


Back in July the Booker judges announced a wide-ranging and defiantly highbrow longlist that wasn't afraid to ignore big names. Now we have a shortlist that, at a time of seismic change in the industry, rewards tiny publishers running on enthusiasm and strong coffee and, true to form, only two well-known authors remain.

Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies is a sequel of sorts to her 2009 Booker winner Wolf Hall, and Will Self's Umbrella is a bravura stream-of-consciousness tour through 20th-century history and psychiatry.

The debut novels are Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis, a hallucinatory portrait of opium smokers in Old Bombay, and Alison Moore's The Lighthouse, an unsettling tale of a man and his memories on a walking holiday.

The last two authors on the list, if unfamiliar, are not new: Tan Twang Eng, who conjures a Japanese garden in Malaya in The Garden of Evening Mists, has been longlisted before; and Deborah Levy, whose Swimming Home shows the middle classes falling apart on the French Riviera, has an impressive back catalogue.

To view the shortlist in pictures please click on the following link;

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2012/sep/11/man-booker-prize-2012-shortlist#/?picture=395973345&index=0

The longlist was rich in comic exuberance from authors such as Nicola Barker, Michael Frayn and Ned Beauman. They've gone, to leave a group of books that are often downbeat in theme, suffused with ageing, addiction, depression and regret – not to mention the execution of Anne Boleyn.

Refreshingly, it was style that made these novels stand out. "It was the pure power of prose that settled most debates," said the chair of the judges. "We loved the shock of language shown in so many different ways."

So can Mantel win again for volume two in her grand, expanding project to reimagine Thomas Cromwell and his age? It would be a surprising decision, surely, from a judging panel that appreciates the shock of the new.

It could be said that the other frontrunner, Self's Umbrella, is not exactly novel either, treating the subject of modernism in high modernist style, with a loving debt to James Joyce. But it's the best book yet from an author whose position on the margins deserves to be embraced by the mainstream, and would make a fitting winner indeed.
(Guardian Tues 11th September 2012)

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Guardian First Book Award 2012



Chad Harbach's highly praised debut The Art of Fielding is competing with an Iraq veteran's "raw, visceral" novel about the impact of war and a journalist's account of the time she spent living in a Mumbai slum on the longlist for the Guardian first book award.

Eleven titles have been chosen for the Guardian's £10,000 prize, from Mary Costello's collection of Irish short stories The China Factory, released by small publisher Stinging Fly Press, to Harbach's novel, which follows the story of baseball player Henry Skrimshander and arrives garlanded with praise from Jonathan Franzen and John Irving. For the second year running, Guardian readers nominated a title, this year choosing Sarah Jackson's "assured and mysterious" poetry collection Pelt.

To view the complete longlist in pictures please click here

Publishers submitted 94 titles for the prize, and judges Ahdaf Soueif, Kate Summerscale, Jeanette Winterson and Guardian deputy editor Katharine Viner, chaired by Guardian Review editor Lisa Allardice, called in many more. Army veteran Kevin Powers was chosen for The Yellow Birds, a novel about a soldier's return home after a year in Iraq, Patrick Flanery for his book about the fictional great South African writer Clare Wald, Absolution, and Charlotte Rogan for The Lifeboat, in which an ocean liner capsizes in 1914, stranding passengers in a lifeboat for three long weeks.

"In fiction we've got novels like The Art of Fielding, a popular and critical hit earlier this year, alongside lesser known titles such as The China Factory," said Allardice. "One criticism of new writing is often that it doesn't engage with contemporary events or recent history, but something like The Yellow Birds, a very raw, visceral account of the Iraq war written by a young soldier, shows this can be done.

"Judging a prize like this, you do very quickly become aware of trends and foibles. Semi-autobiographical novels seems to have given way to whimsical child narrators. The one on our longlist which might seem to fall into this category is Kerry Hudson's novel Tony Hogan Brought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, but the voice is so fresh and the writing so energetic that we felt it needed to be included."

Four non-fiction titles make this year's line-up: New Yorker journalist Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers, her account of her time living in the Annawadi slum built on rubbish dumps at the edge of Mumbai airport; Susan Cain's Quiet, about the power of introverts, Faramerz Dabhoiwala's The Origins of Sex; and Lindsey Hilsum's Sandstorm, about the Libyan revolution.

"The non-fiction we've chosen is wide-ranging both geographically, from Mumbai to Libya, and across subjects from sex to silence," said Allardice, who is joined on the judging panel by authors including Jeanette Winterson, Kate Summerscale and Ahdaf Soueif. "We've tried to put together a lively list which reflects the diversity of first books this year."

Reading groups across the country, run in partnership with Waterstones, will now help the panel pick a shortlist, which will be announced in late October. The winner will be unveiled on 29 November, joining names including Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer and last year's winner Siddhartha Mukherjee, who took the prize for his "biography" of cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies.

The longlist

Fiction
The China Factory by Mary Costello (Stinging Fly Press)
Absolution by Patrick Flanery (Atlantic)
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (Fourth Estate)
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson (Chatto & Windus)
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (Sceptre)
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan (Virago)

Non-fiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (Portobello)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (Viking)
The Origins of Sex by Faramerz Dabhoiwala (Allen Lane)
Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution by Lindsey Hilsum (Faber)

Readers' choice
Pelt by Sarah Jackson (Bloodaxe)

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Story Lab Reading Challenge!

The Cathaoirleach of Sligo County Council Councillor Veronica Cawley has commended the children who participated in Sligo Central Library’s ‘Story Lab’ Reading Challenge. ‘Any initiative which encourages and supports young people’s interest in reading is to be welcomed, and I would like to pay tribute to County Librarian Donal Tinney and the staff of Sligo Central Library for co-ordinating this programme.’


Over 300 children in County Sligo joined the Story Lab Reading Challenge, many of whom convened in Sligo Central Library recently for a presentation ceremony. Certificates and medals were presented to the children by the Cathaoirleach Councillor Cawley and Deputy Mayor of Sligo Councillor Matt Lyons.



Children aged 4 to 11 were invited to read six books over the summer. They were given a pack when they joined and had stickers to collect on the way. The theme of Story Lab was a celebration of story and the imagination. Co-ordinated by The Reading Agency, this summer’s Reading Challenge ran in public libraries throughout the UK and Ireland, and had a link to the 2012 Olympics.

Deputy Mayor Lyons said this was the latest in a series of excellent projects delivered by the Library Service. ‘I have had the honour of attending many events at Sligo Central Library over the years, it is always a welcoming and pleasant environment, and it was heartening to see so many youngsters take up the ‘Reading Challenge’ with such enthusiasm.’

Twenty seven schools from County Sligo took part in the challenge, and there was even a ‘guest participant’, a young Celbridge girl in the North West on her holidays.



Friday, August 10, 2012

Sligo Festivals get underway!

The Sligo Lunasa and Sligo 400 Summer Festivals run concurrently over the course of this weekend finishing on the 12th August 2012.
Information and events scheduled can be found on;
http://www.sligosummerfestival.com/ for the Sligo 400 Festival
http://www.sligotourism.ie/ for the Sligo Lunasa Festival
Please come out and show your support for these local festivals .

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Events in Sligo Central Library!

Teddybears’s Picnic Storytelling for toddlers/pre-school children


Sligo Central Library, Stephen St, Sligo
Wednesday 25th July at 3pm. and Wednesday 8th August at 3pm.




Bring your favorite teddy along to listen with you. Dressing up as your favorite character is optional!
Tel: 071 9111675 Email: sligocentrallibrary@sligococo.ie


The Feast of Lúnasa: A lunchtime talk

The Feast of Lúnasa: A lunchtime talk on Thursday 9th August by Brian Leyden on the gatherings, beliefs and rituals associated with this major feast day in the Celtic Year.



Brian Leyden is the author of the best selling memoir The Home Place, the novel Death and Plenty and the short story collection Departures. His work has featured on RTE’ Radio’s Sunday Miscellany and the Documentary on One . He was Writer in Residence with Sligo Libraries in 2010 and contributes a popular ‘Soapbox’ column to the The Sligo Champion.


Story Lab - The Summer Reading Challenge 2012 at Sligo Central Library



The summer reading challenge invites children aged 4- 11 years to read six books during the summer holidays.

It is free to participate, just enroll at Sligo Central Library to receive your pack.
There are stickers to collect along the way with a certificate and medal presented at the end.

The theme for 2012 is Story Lab - a five-sided hi-tech HQ that attracts stories from all over the world and sends them spinning throughout the city - and beyond!

It's the place to read, collect, share, create, transmit and broadcast stories... Find out more at http://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/

Tel: 071 9111675 Email: sligocentrallibrary@sligococo.ie

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

New opening hours for Local Studies & Enniscrone!

In an effort to improve our services to the public, Sligo Libraries intend to change the opening hours of the Local Studies Library (now located on Stephen Street) and Enniscrone Branch Library.




From July 2nd 2012 it is envisaged that Local Studies will mirror the opening hours of Central Library - remaining open on Tuesday evenings and Saturdays. Enniscrone will also increase its opening hours on Wednesdays by 2 hours. Both services will close on Mondays dovetailing with the other branch libraries throughout the County. These changes should benefit the users of both specific services by utilising staff to its maximum effect. If you have any queries please contact us at sligolib@sligococo.ie . Thank you.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Sligo Library/One Click Digital Audiobooks available!



Create new account.

Please click on the link below to get started setting up your Sligo Library - One Click Digital account. For this process you will need your Sligo Library Card number (User ID number thats on the back of your library card) to hand.
http://sligo.oneclickdigital.eu/Create%20User.aspx

Important Information.

On initial set up you will also need to download the One Click Digital (O.C.D) Media Player for Windows or Mac depending on your PC. This download will take several minutes. Once downloaded this gives you the option to, thereafter, log directly into the O.C.D media player and browse for titles. To download either the Windows or Mac version please click on the link below;
http://sligo.oneclickdigital.eu/Help/Player%20Tutorial.aspx

Getting Started

Once you have (i) your new account set up and (ii) the relevant version of the O.C.D Media Player installed, you're ready to start borrowing titles.

  1. You need to log into the Sligo Library - One Click Digital Homepage here .
  2. Once this is done you will see a variety of Audiobook cover images on the screen.
  3. You can also do a quick search for a title/author or do a browse by genre (both options on top of screen).
  4. When happy with your selected title you simply click on the image and a more detailed information page regarding the title will appear.
  5. Click on the button "checkout now" on the bottom right hand side of the screen.
  6. You then need to click on the "My Collections" tab on the top left hand corner of the screen in order to see your checked out item.
  7. Underneath your item you need to click on the option to "Download now".
  8. Depending on your computer it may save the relevant audiofile in a specified location on your hard-drive or may prompt you to log directly into the O.C.D media player.
  9. Regardless you will have to log into the O.C.D media player and select the option "Download and transfer" if you wish to transfer to a portable device* (please read next section). Otherwise you can play the Audiobook on your PC by using the generic play/pause buttons displayed on the O.C.D media player.

*Information regarding Portable Devices.

If you intend to download to an Apple portable device (Iphone, Ipod or Ipad) you will also need Itunes installed on your computer. When you have the O.C.D media player open you select the "Downoad and transfer" button which will sync your apple device with Itunes and begin to tranfer the audio files onto your device. This could take up to 20 minutes per title.

If you intend to download to an Android or other portable device you will have to change the "default device" option to other in the My Account/Preferences tab when logged in via the website. You will also have to untick the One Click Digital Media Manager as being the "default player". If downloading in this fashion please ensure that your portable device can successfully play the selected format (MP3, WMA etc) of the downloaded audiobook in question. This rule also remains the same if you wish to simply play the selected Audiobook through a generic media player (such as windows Media player) on your PC.

One Click Digital APP

For Apple Device users there is also the One Click Digital APP that can be downloaded for free, either by visiting the APPstore or clicking on the relevant APP link when you have logged onto the O.C.D website.

It is important to note that you must have an account set up via the O.C.D website before you can gain access to the O.C.D media player via the O.C.D APP. Once logged in you can browse for items and play selected ones however you need to retain your internet connection whilst doing so. You are unable to transfer & keep audiobooks directly to your portable device using the APP. To store titles on your portable device you must download onto your computer and transfer to your portable device.

Help tab.

The following page (link below) will display a list of informative links to tutorial videos showing different aspects of OneClickdigital
http://sligo.oneclickdigital.eu/Help/Help.aspx

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

One Click Digital online audiobooks


  • Interested in downloading free Audiobooks?
  • Sligo Library Service hopes to launch this service soon.
  • Please leave your name and contact details with staff or email them to sligolib@sligococo.ie and you will be contacted in due course for a brief introduction on how to use this facility.


Thursday, May 17, 2012

CBI Ballymote Book Club

Ballymote CBI bookclub

The Children’s Books Ireland Shadowing Scheme is a unique programme for schools and libraries, designed to encourage awareness and enjoyment of the CBI Ireland Book of the Year Awards.


6th Class Children from Scoil Muire Gan Smal, Ballymote participated and Bookclub meetings were held in Ballymote Community Library during April and May. The children and librarians read each of the books shortlisted for the Awards, using a specially devised activity pack to guide them in their reading. At the end of this process the children agreed on their favourite book and their vote was sent to CBI. The shadowing verdict followed by the official prize ceremony will take place at the end of May.

Shannon Scanlon (pictured) showing her favourite title "Bruised" of the shortlisted awards list.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Sligo Libraries Mobile Service May 2012

Next dates for the Pilot Mobile Library Service are:

Wednesday 9th May 2012
Dromore West 11.30 – 12.15
Skreen/Dromard Community Centre 12.45 – 1.30
Coolaney 2.30 – 4.00

Thursday 10th May 2012
Benwiskin Centre 9.00 – 10.00
Mullaghmore 10.30 – 11.15
Cliffoney 11.30 – 12.15
Grange 12.30 – 1.15

Wednesday 30th May 2012
Dromore West 11.30 – 12.15
Skreen/Dromard Community Centre 12.45 – 1.30
Coolaney 2.30 – 4.00

Thursday 31st May 2012
Benwiskin Centre 9.00 – 10.00
Mullaghmore 10.30 – 11.15
Cliffoney 11.30 – 12.15
Grange 12.30 – 1.15

For further details please contact sligolib@sligococo.ie  or 071 9111856/9111675

Thursday, April 26, 2012

New opening hours for selected branches!

In an effort to improve our services to the public, Sligo Libraries intend to change the opening hours of the Local Studies Library (now located on Stephen Street) and Enniscrone Branch Library.
From July 2nd 2012 it is envisaged that Local Studies will mirror the opening hours of Central Library - remaining open on Tuesday evenings and Saturdays. Enniscrone will also increase its opening hours on Wednesdays by 2 hours. Both services will close on Mondays dovetailing with the other branch libraries throughout the County. These changes should benefit the users of both specific services by utilising staff to its maximum effect.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Art of Sound Exhibition

On loan from the Contemporary Music Centre, The Art of Sound Exhibition: A Glimpse into the creativity of Irish Composers
will be on display in Ballymote Community Library, Teeling Street, Ballymote, for the month of May 2012.

This is a photographic multi-media exhibition offering insight into the creative process of our contemporary composers.
With photography by Eugene Langan and audio voice-over by Éamonn Lawlor the exhibition “is aimed at the layperson with no specialist knowledge of contemporary music or music notation.”

For further details on this exhibition please click here
Ballymote Community Library Opening Hours - click here
Tel: 071 9111669 Email: ballymotelibrary@sligococo.ie
For other music events in May see http://www.musicindrumcliffe.ie/

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Sligo Libraries Mobile Service April/May 2012

Next dates for the Pilot Mobile Library Service are:

Wednesday 18th April 2012

Dromore West 11.30 – 12.15
Skreen/Dromard Community Centre 12.45 – 1.30
Coolaney 2.30 – 4.00

Thursday 19th April 2012

Benwiskin Centre 9.00 – 10.00
Mullaghmore 10.30 – 11.15
Cliffoney 11.30 – 12.15
Grange 12.30 – 1.15

Wednesday 9th May 2012

Dromore West 11.30 – 12.15
Skreen/Dromard Community Centre 12.45 – 1.30
Coolaney 2.30 – 4.00

Thursday 10th May 2012

Benwiskin Centre 9.00 – 10.00
Mullaghmore 10.30 – 11.15
Cliffoney 11.30 – 12.15
Grange 12.30 – 1.15

For further details please contact sligolib@sligococo.ie or 071 9111856/9111675

Thursday, April 12, 2012

FÁS eLearning at the Library

FÁS, in partnership with the Library Council of Ireland, have devised a programme to make learning available to clients through their local library.
The aim of the programme is to up skill local persons in Digital Competence and IT Skills.
FÁS eligibility criteria applies to this programme and there is no charge to participants.

Know It – Making Computers part of your life
Commencing soon to selected Library Branches, this course is designed for people taking their first steps in learning about computers and will be delivered by tutor led sessions.

What you will Learn:

How to use a computer, mouse and keyboard
Send and receive email
Use word processing to produce basic documents
Use the Internet to find information
Having completed this course you will have a National Qualification – Fetac Level 3

North West Computers will be facilitating this course in Sligo Library Branches.

For more information please call Patricia at North West Computers, Telephone: 071 9158700

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Easter Opening Hours!

Sligo Library Branches will be closed from 5pm on Thursday 5th April 2012, reopening at their usual times on Tuesday 10th April 2012.


Central Library, Stephen Street, Sligo - open at 9.30am Tuesday 10th April. Local Studies Library, Stephen Street, Sligo - open at 9.30am Tuesday 10th April.
Tubbercurry Community Library, Humbert Street, Tubbercurry, Co.Sligo - open at 12 noon Tuesday 10th April.
Ballymote Community Library, Teeling Street, Ballymote, Co.Sligo - open at 9.30am Tuesday 10th April.
Enniscrone Branch Library, Pier road, Enniscrone, Co.Sligo - open at 3pm Tuesday 10th April.

We wish all our members and customers a very peaceful and happy Easter.

Sligo Libraries

Friday, March 30, 2012

Sligo Libraries to launch new e-audiobook facility soon!

This new e-Audiobook service will allow the user to connect to the OneClickDigital website. Here you will be able to download hundreds of new Audiobook titles on your personal computer or portable media player. This Service is hoped to be up and running by early summer 2012. Watch this space!