Full details and latest news of the opportunity for communities to run their libraries and the future of mobile libraries can be found at The future of Surrey's libraries. Including the background to how the decisions were reached.
Adult Learners’ Week, 12 to 18 May, is the largest annual festival of learning in the UK, inspiring all adults to discover the fun of learning and the many ways in which they can learn.
The Surrey Performing Arts Library has received an Excellence Award for Music Libraries from the International Association of Music Libraries (UK & Irl).
Find out more from Performing Arts Library news and events
Celebrate the The Queen's Diamond Jubilee with Surrey libraries. Take a nostalgic look back at how things were 60 years ago, find out what events and activities are going on in Surrey and in your local library, or take part in our fun quiz about the Queen in fiction.
Vote for your favourite sporting book in our Bookathon.
Enter our Sporting quiz (£10 book tokens to be won)
See Go libraries for more 2012 information.
Find out all sorts about the London 2012 Olympics from Go libraries web links
Everyone joining the library can now choose to have a 2012 Celebrate Sport in Surrey library card depicting one of five different sporting activities.
Existing members can also exchange their current card for one of the new cards for the standard £2 card replacement fee.
To celebrate Surrey's part in the 2012 cycle events, selected libraries in Surrey are offering the whole set of eight cycle guides for just £10.
Children, enter our quiz and you may be the one of the lucky winners: Libraries Book Festival quiz for children
Nearly 150 people braved a wet Monday evening to attend Surrey Libraries first World Book Night celebrations .
Cliff McNish, author of the acclaimed Doomspell trilogy, has written a series of creative writing sheets especially for children using Surrey libraries.
The sheets are full of practical tips and ideas to help you develop your story-writing skills. The sheets are available absolutely free from your local Surrey library, just pop in and pick them up. Find out about the Top Tips and see if your story could be featured on our website.
Bring the topic of the Titanic to life this month with Britannica's latest spotlight
Wondering what to read next? Read everything by your favourite writer? "Who Else Writes Like?" will help you find new authors. Available to library members from home and to everyone within the library.
We are pleased to let you know that PIO has added the online edition of The Civil Service Yearbook 48th Edition!
Public Information Online allows you to view UK Parliamentary, Scottish Parliamentary, Northern Ireland Assembly and Scottish Government publications in PDF format online.
Find this and much more on the online reference shelf and don't forget the children's online reference shelf too. Help is available from Enquiries Direct.
Surrey libraries has a special collection at Epsom library of over 9,000 art books and 6,000 books covering many aspects of collecting and antiques.
If you are interested in volunteering or finding out about the work of the steering group for Tattenhams community partnered library, contact tattenhamscommunitylibrary@hotmail.co.uk.
For further information contact Tricia Owen on 01344 842275 or email: Tricia.owen@catenary.co.uk.
...pictures of our libraries and snapshots from library events on Flickr and YouTube.
Surrey County Council has joined forces with Surrey's public service providers, to invite suggestions on the delivery of services, including the libraries. To find out more about the difficult decisions we face and to submit your views, visit www.surreyhaveyoursay.info or call 03456 009 009.
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