Celebrating World Book Day
World Book Day was celebrated in our Libraries on 7 March with school visits, stories and fun rhymetime sessions by the BookStart team.
WorldBook Day is a worldwide celebration of books and reading.
Families can choose from the wide selection available on our shelves and also download free through the Borrowbox app. This year hundreds of free book vouchers were given to the Denbighshire children in our Libraries as well as a number of free books.
LGBTQ+ History Month
In February Rhyl Library hosted a special event to celebrate LGBT+ History Month.
There were displays and stalls from local organisations, for example, North East Wales Archives talked about the LGBT+ Timeline for North Wales and Working Denbighshire promoted their services to help people get into employment and training. Other organisations included the Gay Outdoors Club, British Transport Police, Making Sense and the Unique Transgender Network.
Jenny-Anne Bishop OBE gave an informative talk about the history of gender services in Wales and there was an entertaining performance about the Ladies of Llangollen through the eyes of their faithful friend and housekeeper, Mary Caryll.
Throughout the month libraries promoted the range of LGBTQ+ fiction available both in our libraries and through Borrowbox
Denbighshire Bookstart Music Sessions
Bookstart hosted lively, musical sessions at their meetings in Ruthin, Rhyl and Prestatyn Libraries with musical accompaniment to their usual rhymetimes. The music was provided by Canolfan Gerdd William Mathias with Charlotte and Angharad playing the harp, saxophone and flugelhorn The children and babies were captivated by the sound of the instruments, and the families enjoyed the interactive, fun sessions.
Thanks to the Active Communities Team, Denbighshire Leisure for funding through the UK Government Shared Prosperity Fund to host and organize these creative activities.
Digital Confidence Denbighshire
Denbighshire Libraries in partnership with Cwmpas are hosting several Digital Confidence Sessions at their Libraries. This project, which is funded through the Shared Prosperity Fund, is actively increasing levels of digital inclusion in Denbighshire. The aim is to break down barriers hindering residents from engaging in employment and education by offering them a suite of direct digital inclusion interventions.
This initiative is benefiting individuals in Denbighshire who find themselves digitally excluded due to factors such as:
- Skills and Basic Digital Literacy
- Financial Constraints: Addressing poverty-related challenges, including the inability to afford access to technology, hindering online interactions with services like banking and energy suppliers.
- Geographic Limitations: Tackling issues arising from limited or no 4G or broadband connectivity.
- Healthcare Access
- Social Isolation and Loneliness
We offer a range of drop-in sessions, workshops, and essential skills courses. Recent delivery has included sessions on online safety, shopping safely online, history and reminiscence, job-seeking, online health and wellbeing resources, basic tablet and computer familiarisation and social media awareness.
Together, let’s build a digitally inclusive Denbighshire.
Popular digital session at Denbigh Library