Newcastle Libraries

We're moving...Saturday 27 June will be the final day that Walker Library operates from the Walker Activity Dome. The library will be closed on Tuesday 30 June.

From Thursday 1 July, Walker Library will be located at Tree Top Village (Walker Road, NE6 3JW)

Opening hours from 1 July:
Tuesday: 10am-5pm
Thursday: 10am-6pm
Friday: 10am-2pm
Saturday: 10am-2pm

We look forward to seeing you all at Walker Library's new location 👋

🎶 CALLING ALL BANDS & MUSICIANS! 🎶

We’re looking for local bands, solo artists and musicians to help make this year’s Thursdays extra special!
Throughout the summer holidays, we’ll be hosting live music sessions every Thursday from 5pm and would love to hear from performers interested in gifting a gig and supporting our community events programme.

We’re keen to showcase a wide variety of musical styles and performers so whether you’re acoustic, indie, jazz, folk, rock, pop, classical or something completely unique — we’d love to hear from you!

Interested? Send us a message or email on [email protected] with:
🎵 A little bit about you
🎵 Your style of music
🎵 Any links/videos if you have them

Help us bring music, creativity and fun to the Summer Reading Challenge! ☀️📚

Please note: we truly appreciate everyone who gets in touch, but unfortunately we won’t be able to host every act.

The NEW Toon Libraries cards are here! 🎉 Today, our talented winner visited us to collect her brand-new library card!

This fantastic design was chosen by Newcastle Libraries staff from all the amazing entries submitted to our competition. ✨🤩

A huge thank you to everyone who entered. The standard of entries was incredible, and you made the judging process extremely difficult with so many creative and inspiring designs. We loved seeing all your ideas!

Okaaay, let's go 🗣 The Hoppings has officially kicked off - is the rain making sense now?

Lets take a peak at The Hoppings through time...

1985, 1985, 1974, 1974, 1964.

📸: Photographs from Newcastle Libraries Archives, courtesy of The Chronicle and The Journal.

It's and this year's theme is "Courage". We're proud to be a Library of Sanctuary that supports and welcomes all of the courageous people who now call Newcastle home.

Tonight, Newcastle City Library was honoured to host a special event; How NOT to Flee a War, a compelling talk by Ukrainian journalist Maria Romanenko and Jez Myers, telling the story of their escape from Kyiv in February 2022.

It's coming home... ⚽✨

We've gone World Cup daft here at Toon Libraries as we patiently await England's first game tonight!

Over 100 sign ups to the in the first 2 weeks! Plenty of time to get signed up and started on your reading challenge!

Newcastle Libraries challenges all adults in Newcastle (and beyond) to read 3 library books this Summer! ✨🌞

Collect your bookmark challenge tracker from any library branch to get started. Find out more: https://libraries.newcastle.gov.uk/adultreadingchallenge

This come to City Library for a first hand account of...How NOT to Flee a War

On 24 February 2022, Ukrainian journalist Maria Romanenko, and her partner Jez Myers faced a difficult decision: whether to stay in Kyiv, where to go if they left, and how to leave a city under the threat of Russian invasion.

Thursday 18 June | City Library | 5pm

Newcastle Libraries challenges all adults in Newcastle (and beyond) to read 3 library books this Summer! ✨🌞

Join the to find books you'll love, share your reading journey and win prizes! The challenge runs from June to September and everyone can take part...

Collect your bookmark challenge tracker from any library branch to get started. Find out more: https://libraries.newcastle.gov.uk/adultreadingchallenge

📸: Big Toon Reading Challenge display at High Heaton Library