Reading promotions across the city
For more information on Manchester libraries visit
www.manchester.gov.uk/libraries
Photo: North City Library interior
Manchester Libraries and Theatres Department organise a range of events and activities to encourage readers to use libraries. Book displays and promotions across the city offer a tempting range of stock. We take part in national promotions such as World Book Day and National Poetry Day. Local activities which help promote reading include the annual Festival of Manchester Writing and Manchester Poetry Festival.
A range of ongoing events also take place including a regular programme of readings and visiting writers in Central Library. Three general reading groups currently offer an opportunity for some keen readers to share their views. There is also an active poetry reading group, and a play reading group organised by the Library Theatre.
For more information on Manchester libraries visit
www.manchester.gov.uk/librariesor contact:
Rose Ryan
Fiction and Reader Development
Central Library
St Peters Square
Manchester
M2 5PD
Tel: 0161 234 1317
email: r.ryan@manchester.gov.uk
Librarians in the North West have pioneered partnership working to encourage new readers into libraries. Time To Read is a partnership of librarians engaged in reader development activity in public library authorities in the North West Region. All 23 public library authorities in the region currently support Time To Read.