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We provide great support for reading groups, and using library books is much easier on the pockets of members than asking each to buy a copy of your group’s reading choices.

An annual reading group subscription gives:

• unlimited requests for different titles;
• up to ten copies of each title subject to availability; and
• an extended loan period.

Just call into the library to open a reading group account. You’ll be given a group library card and information about ordering books for your group online from county library stock. Of course, you can also choose and order titles in person by calling into the library where we’ll be pleased to help.

It’s best to order titles at least two months prior to your planned meeting date and you’ll get emails as your ordered books arrive at the library. Just pop in to collect them and return them once your group has finished with them. Easy.

You’ll find lots more information about reading groups here.

When the weather is fair, look out for our used book sale trolley just outside the front door. It’s well stocked with books that have been withdrawn from loan stock – fiction, non-fiction and books for children – and we top it up with new titles regularly.

Drop by and pick up a bargain or two. All proceeds in aid of community library funds.

The community library is managed and run by volunteers who all share one aim – keeping a thriving public library in Easingwold.

You can help us by just joining and using the library – every new member and every visit really does count and we love seeing lovely books disappearing out of the library door in the hands of borrowers of all ages.

Maybe you’d like to go a step further and get actively involved in helping in a fabulous community resource? Be assured that we’d love to have you. Find out more about volunteering with us here.

May is Local History Month and in the library we’re spotlighting Easingwold in times past.

Naturally, we’re particularly interested in the former school which now houses the community library. The clues to its educational origins are the large school bell, which now hangs inside, and the decidedly pointed inscription ‘Learn or Leave’ above the front door.

This is a call out to see if you or anyone you know has any memories, information or even photos of our building before it began its second life as a North Riding County Library in 1961 (right). Or perhaps of the many other schools in Easingwold before the Grammar and Modern School (now Outwood) opened in 1954 and the Thirsk Road site became the Community Primary School.

We would love to hear from you if you can help us with this or with any other aspects of Easingwold’s past.

You can reach us by emailing ecl.generalenquiries@gmail.com, dropping into the library or giving us a call on 01609 534584 during our opening hours.

Alternatively, why not enjoy a cuppa and cake while you tell us your story at our upcoming A Little Local History Coffee Morning on Wednesday 8^th May running from 10am until Noon.

Our FREE Home Library and Information Service (HLIS) can bring books, large print books, DVD movies and audiobooks right to your door.

This service is ideal if you are unable to get to the library, cannot carry books comfortably, or if you are a busy carer. We deliver to people who live in residential and nursing homes too.

We’ll chat to you about your reading, listening and watching preferences so that we can personally tailor the selections we’ll be making for you. We’ll then deliver items to you once a fortnight, or keep them at the library for collection by a member of your family, a carer or a friend.

HOW TO JOIN

Drop us an email at ecl.generalenquiries@gmail.com  or ring us on 01609 534584 to arrange a home visit.