Get Online Week: Digital Champions
As part of Get Online Week, we are encouraging people around Kirklees who do have digital skills to offer support to those who are digitally excluded.
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Get Online Week: Digital Cafes
What is Get Online Week? Get Online Week is a digital inclusion campaign to support people who don’t have the access or knowledge to experience the benefits of the internet and digital technologies. A lack of digital skills and access can have a huge negative impact on a person’s life, including poorer health outcomes, increased loneliness and social isolation. Over
Read moreShow love for your local library this Libraries Week!
Libraries Week is dedicated to celebrating all the fantastic work our local libraries do.
Read moreExplore local heritage with the Birkby History Walk
As part of this year’s Heritage Open Days, you are invited to join Lorna Brooks, from the Kirklees Local Studies Library for the ‘Allotments, Orchards, Dikes and Shrogs walk’ and discover the green spaces of Birkby past and present. When is it? Wednesday 15 September 2021 and it’s expected to take around 2 hours. It’s free, but places must be
Read moreDrumming, sculpting and music mark the opening of new community library in Birkby and Fartown
Councillor Nigel Patrick, Mayor of Kirklees, and Carol Stump, Chief Librarian and President of Libraries Connected officially opened the new £799k Birkby and Fartown Library on Saturday 14 August with an unveiling of a special plaque that will be displayed in the building.
Read moreNew £799k library to be unveiled in Birkby and Fartown with music and family fun
Kirklees Libraries will officially open a new community library in Birkby and Fartown this week as part of a long-term programme to invest in libraries in the borough.
Read moreKirklees Libraries first in Yorkshire to receive national accolade
Kirklees Libraries becomes the first library service in the Yorkshire and Humber region to receive a prestigious national Library of Sanctuary Award.
Read moreMore residents can visit their local library as many COVID restrictions go
Kirklees Libraries have now extended their opening times so most branches are operating at pre-pandemic hours.
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