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!

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.

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.

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)