You can come in between 10am – 8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 10am – 1pm on Saturday. We have 3000 titles and growing – we’d love to see you so call in to join up and browse our stock in person. Membership is free, and our click and collect service from our webpage will stay open. We are also still accepting donations of good quality books of all types. 

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Shared Reading brings people of all ages and backgrounds together through the enjoyment of listening to a short story, poem or extract from a novel being read aloud. Groups meet through national charity The Reader, which was launched more than a decade ago in Birkenhead. There are now 500 groups across the UK, held in a wide variety of settings, such as libraries, community and support centres and care homes.

Birkdale Shared Reading Group started in early 2020 and during the pandemic a few of us have managed to continue reading together online. We read a wide variety of texts, classics and modern, pausing  to talk about what we’ve read, sharing our thoughts and perhaps memories triggered by the reading if we wish to. There is no pressure on anyone to read or to speak, you are welcome to join us and just relax and listen. We meet on Monday afternoons at 2 pm and are greatly looking forward to being able to do so at the library and to welcoming new people. If you would like to come along or to find out more, please contact Judith at:  judireading@btinternet.com or enquire at the library. There is no charge for coming to the group. You can also find more information about shared reading on The Reader website: www.thereader.org.uk .

We are now open for click and collect, simply register using the “Join the Library” section on the Home page of this website. We’ll email you your login details a few days later and you can then logon to our library catalogue to browse and reserve books. Once you receive a second email telling you the books are available, simply pop in to collect them – we’ll have them ready.

The first time you arrive to collect your reserved books we’ll want to check some form of ID such as passport, drivers licence, utility bill or care home invoice then we’ll issue you with a membership card.

Unfortunately due to the current Covid situation we cannot allow in person browsing of the library or use of the meeting rooms. We hope that will happen soon as restrictions are eased.

We are open for new member registration, initially for click-and-collect book loans, from the 14th May.

Mynie Jones £50; Stephen James £20; Chrissy Guizzetti £20.