Bookbug’s Library Challenge re-launch

Bookbug’s Library Challenge is a fun way to encourage young children to explore and enjoy their local library.

Bookbug Library Challenge at Oxgangs Library

As a result of the feedback from consultation, a few changes are being introduced to the materials we use to support the program. What better excuse for some Bookbug fun? Children from 2 local nursery classes came to Oxgangs Library to celebrate the changes.

We were delighted to have author/illustrator Alison Murray, who shared stories, songs and activities with us and each of the children also got a gift of a mini bookbug!

Alison Murray and the Bookbug Library Challenge at Oxgangs Library

Bookbug’s Library Challenge runs in all libraries in Edinburgh. Talk to staff at your local library for more information.

Why a US-based singer songwriter is playing a gig at Oxgangs Library

This is the video for Like Warriors, the new single from US-based singer songwriter Kathy Muir.

Kathy is originally from Oxgangs, and the song is about growing up there in the sixties and seventies.

This is where Oxgangs Library comes in. Kathy wanted to make a video featuring photos and film footage of Oxgangs as it was, and after a phenomenally successful Facebook appeal (which was featured in the Edinburgh Evening News) Kathy visited Oxgangs Library last month to collect even more pictures and meet some of the people who donated them. Here she is talking about her visit and the background to the project.

We’re delighted to say that Kathy will be making a return visit to the library tomorrow for a live performance at 3pm. We’re really looking forward to welcoming her back and seeing Like Warriors being performed live.

Celebrating 25 years of Oxgangs Library

1990: a momentous year. Gazza wept, Margaret Thatcher resigned… and Oxgangs Library opened its doors to the public.

We invited friends and supporters to join us in celebrating a quarter century at the heart of the local community. It is these community connections that we hope to work on so that in 25 years we will be celebrating a similar occasion for a community library that is even more fabulous than it is now!

Here’s Councillor Elaine Aitken (acting as Baillie representing the Lord Provost) cutting our birthday cake under the watchful eye of Library Team Leader John McGowan.

Meanwhile musical entertainment was provided by pupils from Firrhill High School

Edinburgh South West MP Joanna Cherry took the opportunity to peruse Book Week Scotland’s Journeys anthology.

And more tunes were supplied by Lindsay McCullough  – the only member of the original Oxgangs Library team who’s still working in Edinburgh Libraries.