Monaghan County Libraries are delighted to launch our Children’s Book Festival 2020 programme.
Every Primary School in Co. Monaghan will receive an invitation to participate with any or all of our events which are running online this year. You can check out what’s happening in our brochure below.
All bookings & queries should be sent to kmccague@monaghancoco.ie or phone 047 74702
https://issuu.com/monaghancountylibraries/docs/_12_page__final_cbf_2020_brochure
Are your Friday Nights lacking a certain something lately? We can help you with that. Join us online on Friday 9th October @ 7.30pm for an evening with the talented Irish author Louise O’Neill.
Reserve your place now at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/louise-oneill-in-2 Louise will be in conversation with Mary B. Mc Ardle but you will have an opportunity to put your questions & comments to Louise during the event.
Louise has written for both Young Adults and an Adult audience. Her latest Thriller ‘After The Silence’ is receiving rave reviews. And if you’ve read ‘Asking For It’ or seen the subsequent stage production you’ll never forget it.
Places limited so don’t miss out!
Culture Night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture, creativity and the arts and takes place on the 3rd Friday of September. From 5pm onwards, cultural venues across the country stay open for everyone to come enjoy the unique experience of Culture Night, a free night of fun, entertainment and discovery.
Monaghan has a vibrant rich cultural community, and this is a great opportunity to sample the area’s cultural and creative offerings for free throughout the evening. The programme has been developing year on year and that is due to the cultural and creative community who partner with us.
For 2020, we were challenged with putting together a programme within the health and safety guidelines of Covid19. And our partnering organisations have truly stepped up to the mark and put together a blended programme which we hope everyone will enjoy. Most of our events this year will take place online, but we do have two events happening offline (see programme for more details).
We are delighted to have so many organisations involved this year again and we hope you enjoy exploring the rich cultural landscape of County Monaghan.
Due to ongoing Covid-19, events on Culture Night programme are subject to change/cancellation. We are committed to the health and safety of our participants and audience and appreciate your understanding of this matter.
Check out the local Culture Night 2020 Programme here
For more information on Culture Night go to https://culturenight.ie/
Have you plans to return to education this Autumn? Does the thought of typing up a 2,000 word assignment fill you with dread?
Monaghan County Libraries are providing complimentary access to the TTRS Programme (Touch-type Read Spell) which will take you through a complete Touch-Typing programme. TTRS is also hugely beneficial to both adults & children as a tool to help with reading & spelling and is of particular benefit to those with Dyslexia, Dyspraxia (DCD) or ESOL.
For more information email kmccague@monaghancoco.ie
We’d love if you could join us this evening at 7pm for our 3rd Family Fun Quiz as part of our Summer Stars Programme. To join simply go to www.myquiz.org and enter the code number 474310
The quiz will start at 7pm sharp so please log in around 6:55pm to avoid missing the first question!
We are aware that there are lots of eager readers waiting for the branch libraries in Castleblayney & Ballybay to reopen. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your patience as we focused on preparing the larger branches for a safe re-opening. Work is now underway to make Ballybay & Castleblayney a safe environment for re-opening but in the mean time we can start with a ‘Contact & Collect’ service from next week. What this means is that you can contact the library and discuss your reading preferences. Library staff will then put together a selection of books for you to collect at a designated time in a safe, social distanced way.
Phone: 042 9740281 between 10am – 1pm, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
Email: castleblayneylibrary@monaghancoco.ie
Phone: 042 9741256 between 10am – 1pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Email: ballybaylibrary@monaghancoco.ie
Monaghan, Clones & Carrickmacross Libraries have re-opened to the public to ‘Browse & Borrow’ but we’ve had to make some changes.
Over the past number of years we have worked hard to make our libraries Community spaces where people could come and spend time browsing our stock, using our computers, taking part in classes, bookclubs, Storytime activities & more, We have really missed seeing everyone over the past few months and we can’t wait for our doors to reopen to the public tomorrow BUT we have had to make quite a few changes. Alot of these changes mean that the libraries must be very functional places for the foreseeable future. Instead of inviting you in to spend hours in our libraries, we must ask you to stay no more than 30 mins. Instead of inviting you to make use of our PCs and Printers, we would ask you to use it only if necessary. Instead of making time to chat with you on the library floor and help you find exactly what you want, we will instead remain behind screens and offer directions and guidance on how to find items on your own. These changes won’t come easy to our Library staff who always strive to provide the best service possible but they are under strict instruction to follow Health & Safety guidelines which aim to keep both you and us safe. Please be patient.
Our Home delivery service remains in place, as does our Contact and Collect Service.
Browse and Borrow time will be from 2-5pm and 6-8pm on Mondays, 2-5pm from Tuesday to Friday.
Contact and Collect will be available from 10am – 1pm.
We hope to see you soon!
As part of our Summer Stars 2020 Programme we’d love if you could just us to test your Family knowledge of Books to Movies. There’s a €50 Voucher for Easons up for grabs!
How to join:
Log in to www.myquiz.org
Enter Code: 453305
It’s fastest finger first so although you may get all of the answers right, the family who were quickest will win the prize. Log in early as there are limited team numbers.
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