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Your free online subscription to National Geographic 27 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
The latest edition of National Geographic Interactive contains the usual dazzling mix of writing, photography and video – and you can see it all for free using Zinio, our free online magazine subscrip...
Calling all budding photographers and festival-goers! 26 Aug 2013 | 02:41 pm
This one’s for you if you’ve been out and about town over the festival and captured the colour, energy, diversity and enjoyment of life in the city during August. The City of Edinburgh Council are as...
We love Persian Poets 21 Aug 2013 | 02:18 pm
Our recent Persian Poets evening was a real crowd pleaser, as these comments from audience members show: “Sad that we couldn’t spend longer and hear them again” “The whole evening was just magical. ...
Guest blogger: Nick Sharratt 19 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
I’ve just visited St Marks Primary School in Oxgangs with Edinburgh City Libraries and had a really great time with Mrs Pia and her Primary 2 class. Among some of my books that we read, we read my “S...
How we helped set up a library in Malawi 14 Aug 2013 | 01:49 pm
An innovative partnership between Edinburgh Libraries and APSTAR has seen over fifty boxes of withdrawn library stock donated to establish the first community library in the Mzimba District of Malawi....
Library computer users’ survey 12 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm
We are planning to improve the free public computer service in libraries. Please help us to do so by completing this short survey. Thanks!
Changes to Central Library 12 Aug 2013 | 01:25 pm
The Music Library and Children’s Library are in a separate building from the rest of Central Library. This building has now been sold and we will be moving those services into the main building. We ho...
Who needs a band? A Cappella at the Fringe 9 Aug 2013 | 01:51 pm
A cappella singing groups have become hugely popular in recent times and have evolved a long way from barbershop quartets – some 28 Edinburgh Fringe musical performances this year describe themselves ...
Five great apps for library members 7 Aug 2013 | 01:15 pm
Take the library with you wherever you go with these 5 great apps 1. Zinio Our members love Zinio. Almost too good to be true, Zinio offers free subscriptions to over 100 popular magazines including...
What is a Social Media Surgery? 5 Aug 2013 | 01:40 pm
McDonald Road Library hosts Edinburgh’s latest Social Media Surgery on Wednesday 14th August from 5.30 – 7.30pm. We caught up with James, one of the “surgeons”, to find out more A previous surgery at...
