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07/09/2026

📚 Doncaster Home Library Service 📚

Doncaster Home Library Service is a FREE service delivering books directly to your home, day centre or residential home.

You may be eligible for this service if you are elderly, disabled, unable to carry items or unable to visit our sites.

To find out more, contact us at 01302 734304 or email us at [email protected].

04/09/2026

🎶 An Evening with Alan Wilkinson 🎶

Join us at Mexborough Library on Friday 18 September at 6pm for a special evening with local musician Alan Wilkinson. This is a free event, and everyone is welcome!

Alan is a singer, songwriter and musician, as well as a collector of rock, folk and jazz records. He has worked with several South Yorkshire poets, adding musical accompaniment to their words, and has contributed to ensemble productions of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It. He also broadcasts two weekly radio shows on Sine FM: Flick the Dust Off and The Jazz File.

Come along and enjoy what promises to be a wonderful evening of music and conversation! 🎵

03/09/2026

🦊🌲 Discover Our Woodland Story Bag at Mexborough Library! 🌲🦉

Looking for a fun new way to enjoy stories together? Why not try our Woodland Story Bag at Mexborough Library?

Our bag is packed with everything you need for a magical storytelling adventure, including:

🧸 Woodland animal teddies to bring the story to life

📚 Beautiful woodland-themed book

🔍 A wooden magnifying glass for little explorers

🍂 Fun activity sheets and story prompts to encourage imaginative play
Reading together isn’t just about books—it helps children develop their language, listening and communication skills, builds confidence, encourages a love of reading, and creates special memories that last a lifetime. Spending just 10–15 minutes sharing a story each day can make a real difference to your child’s learning and wellbeing.

Our Story Bags are perfect for preschoolers and young readers, making story time interactive, imaginative and full of adventure.

✨ Borrow the Woodland Story Bag on your next visit to Mexborough Library and let the storytelling begin!
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02/09/2026

📚✨ Mexborough Library is getting ready to celebrate Roald Dahl Day on Sunday 13 of September with a brand-new display in the children's library !

Celebrate famous stories, marvellous characters and the joy of reading! From fantastic foxes, giant peaches to enormous crocodiles and mesmerising chocolate factories. Roald Dahl's stories have captured readers imaginations for generations.

We wish for plenty of Phizzwizards and absolutely no Trogglehumpers for our visitors !!!💤✨

Pop into the library and tell us your favourite Roald Dahl book, we’d love to know! 🍑🍫📖

01/09/2026

Now that we're approaching the darker -ber months, why not get cosy with some crime novels? 📖🔖

Head to Borrowbox today and discover all these titles and more!

31/08/2026

✨📖 Shared Reading in Doncaster Libraries! 📖✨

Shared Reading groups are free, and for everyone. Each week we select stories and poems to read aloud together and everyone is welcome to share how the words make them feel, and their thoughts and memories. There is no pressure to talk or read aloud.

Are you interested in joining a Shared Reading group?

Head to https://www.thereader.org.uk/shared-reading-wwd/find-a-group/ to find a Reading group close to you!

29/08/2026

Ian Parks Poetry Sessions! ✍✨

Join poet Ian Parks for three sessions to create a series of poems inspired by paintings in the Doncaster art collection related to the St Leger!

These sessions will be ...

📍Danum Gallery, Library and Museum on Thursday 3 September (2pm)
📍Mexborough Library on Monday 14 September (2pm)
📍Danum Gallery, Library and Museum on Monday 21 September (2pm)

No experience necessary!

28/08/2026

✨📖 Recommended Read 📖✨

Edlington Library's book recommendation this week is My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney!

Artist Eden Fox returns from a run to find a stranger living in her home - not only do they look like her and wear her rings but is claimed by Eden’s husband, Harrison, to be his real wife. This is a calculated plot of identity theft, gaslighting and revenge.

Order your copy from the library or download the eBook on Borrowbox!

27/08/2026

🚨 Important Announcement! 🚨

Edlington Library's Rhymetime sessions are taking an extended summer break and return on Wednesday 23 September at 10am.

Email [email protected] for more information.

26/08/2026

Join us at Edlington Library for a new group - Tuneful Chatter! 👶🎉

Starting next Tuesday 1 September from 9.30am - 10.30am, Edlington Library will be hosting a new group for children aged 0-5 to take part in free arts activities!

Tuneful Chatter is let by Doncaster's Creative Health and Learning Charity.

Address

Doncaster
DN13JE

Telephone

01302 734315

Website

http://library.doncaster.gov.uk/web/arena/welcome

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