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We advise our visitors that due to refurbishment works there will be no public toilet or baby changing facility in the library from Monday 9th March for around two weeks. The nearest accessible public toilet is located 100 metres away on the Market Square.

Our latest mini-exhibition features photographic works by THE FOREST OF GALTRES CAMERA CLUB, currently celebrating its 60th Anniversary. The new exhibition doesn’t have a particular theme. Instead, it presents a wonderful selection of stunning landscape, wildlife and abstract images. These beautiful examples of the photographer’s art will be open to view in the library until … Continue reading New Photography Exhibition

Do you enjoy a good read? Fancy the chance to win a bookish prize or two? The North Yorkshire Libraries Adult Reading Challenge 2026 could be right up your street! It’s open to anyone aged 18+ with an adult North Yorkshire Libraries card. No library card? No problem. You can join the library to take part. It’s … Continue reading Join the Challenge!

** SOLD OUT ** It’s true that these days public libraries are about much more than books. The library in a small and oddly familiar market town has unknowingly branched-out into offering its community much, much more than great reads… Written by a library volunteer, The Library Loft is a lighthearted mystery story written in … Continue reading Books? What books??