📚✨ You've seen the Starter Kit trend... here's the Calderdale Libraries Starter Kit! 🛍️ Tote bag 🔖 Magnetic bookmark 🖊️ Pen 💙 Rose window keyring Our new merchandise is now on sale across Calderdale Libraries. Perfect for book lovers and library fans alike!

🎃✨ Can you believe the Autumn term is already over?! Our regular children's sessions are taking a little break while we dive into a half term packed with spooky stories, crafty creations and green-themed fun! 🍂👻 Explore what's on at calderdale.spydus.co.uk

Whether the weather brings sunshine or rain, Calderdale Libraries has plenty of half-term activities to keep little ones entertained! ☀️🌧️ Spaces are still available, so why not explore a new library and make a day of it, or visit your local branch?

🎵 A highlight of this year’s programme was local musician Daniel Capon! His unique workshop combined folk music and storytelling, showing how notes, lyrics and chords on a page can be transformed into something truly magical. ✨

📚 One week to go until our FREE local history book launch event at Hebden Bridge Library! Join local writer and journalist Andrew Bibby as he explores the story of a pioneering co-operative textile mill that thrived for almost 50 years. 📍 Hebden Bridge Library 📅 29th Oct, 7pm

Join Women's Prize longlisted local author India-Rose Bower at Elland Library! Hear about the inspiration behind We Call Them Witches, a chilling post-apocalyptic horror blending folklore, queer stories and survival. 📅 14th Nov, 2pm 📍 Elland Library 🎟️ calderdale.spydus.co.uk

🦇 Calling all vampire hunters! Join us this half term for a spooky adventure into the world of Vampire Hunters. Enjoy a fang-tastic story extract, then create your own Halloween crafts. 🎃 £2.50 per child, suitable for 8+ 📚 Book now calderdale.spydus.co.uk

🌱 It's #GreenLibrariesWeek! We're proud to support greener communities through air quality monitoring, recycling initiatives, climate change collections, and creative junk modelling sessions. Together, we're inspiring positive action for a more sustainable future. ♻️📚💚

Get Online Week (19-26 Oct) is here! 💻📚 At Calderdale Libraries, we're helping tackle digital exclusion with free 1-to-1 IT support, job clubs and resources. Know someone who could benefit? Send them our way and discover how libraries can help people get connected.

This World Menopause Day (18th October), discover how Calderdale Libraries support wellbeing through free access to health information, books, digital resources and welcoming community spaces. Libraries help people stay informed, connected and empowered at every stage of life.

🌱 We're celebrating #GreenLibrariesWeek this half term with FREE sustainable family events! Meet the West Yorkshire Bat Group, swap outgrown fancy dress costumes, and get creative at our popular junk modelling sessions. ♻️🦇🎭 Book now: calderdale.spydus.co.uk

Earlier this year, we were delighted to welcome crime writer Robert Rutherford to Hebden Bridge Library. As part of our National Year of Reading campaign, he shared his thoughts on the power of reading had on his journey from avid reader to published author.

We're ready! 💚 Come and join us today at Brighouse Library from 3pm to help raise money for @macmillancancersupport Our lovely library staff have made a beautiful display ready for the festivities and will be setting up in the Art Gallery with coffee, cake as well as live music!

📖🍂 Looking for the perfect way to spend a chilly autumn afternoon? Join bestselling crime-writing duo R.C. Bridgestock at Elland Library tomorrow at 2pm for a FREE event; exploring the inspiration, research and real-life stories behind their captivating crime novels.

🎃✨ Are you Half Term ready? We've got a spellbinding line-up of activities happening across Calderdale Libraries this October Half Term. Check out calderdale.spydus.co.uk to see what's happening at your local library and join the Half Term fun! 🍂📖✨

📚 Join Hebden Bridge writer and journalist Andrew Bibby for the launch of the revised 2nd edition of All Our Own Work. 📍 Hebden Bridge Library 📅 Thursday 29 October, 7pm 📲Book your free ticket at calderdale.spydus.co.uk