Save Woodside Library

16/09/2026

Come along if you’re available!!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shmu-woodside-aberdeen-creative-writing-group-tickets-2000601743670

SHMU Woodside (Aberdeen)'s Creative Writing Group

Join Open Book's SHMU Woodside's Creative Writing group for an afternoon of shared reading and creative writing!

We'll be using stories and poems to spark our own writing.

Sessions run monthly on a Friday
No experience necessary. Ages 18+.
Book a spot on Eventbrite, or feel free to just drop in!

Please note that by supplying your email address you agree to be contacted via email for evaluative purposes.

Learn more about Open Book at openbookreading.com and sign up for the Unbound newsletter.

Open Book aims to be a safe space for all our participants and Lead Readers. This means our groups should be a place in which everyone feels welcome, respected and comfortable. We ask that you follow CARE (confidentiality, attention, respect, enjoy) and the Safe Spaces Framework each time you join a session. You can read the Space Spaces Framework here.

SHMU Woodside (Aberdeen)'s Creative Writing Group

17/03/2024

URGENT APPEAL - HELP US FEED THOSE IN NEED

We are facing a critical shortage in our food store. More and more people and families are coming to us struggling and hungry. We are there for anyone and everyone, but our food stocks are extremely low.

❤️ Can you help us urgently restock the items below in our food store? You can drop off your donation here https://loom.ly/JhpQGLo

You can also buy food on our Amazon wishlist https://loom.ly/kFg6P-w

👉 To help some of the most vulnerable people in our community please contact [email protected]

29/01/2024

Save woo

Five libraries are to extend their opening hours, including on Saturdays.

Culter, Dyce, Mastrick, Tillydrone and Torry will have an interim extension on opening hours at the following libraries from 1st April 2024.

Read more here: https://orlo.uk/ajUaB

22/01/2024

"When I was 19 years old I couldn't go to college because I came from a poor family. We had no money, so I went to the library at least. Three days a week I read every possible book. At the age of 27 I have actually completed almost the entire library instead of university. So I got my education in the library and for free. When a person wants something, they will find a way to achieve it.
I would like to remind you one thing:
Humans should never forget that we have been assigned only a very small place on earth, that we live surrounded by nature that can easily take back everything that has ever given to man.
It costs absolutely nothing in her way to one day blow us all off the face of the earth or flood the waters of the ocean with her single breath, just to remind man once again that he is not as all-powerful as he still foolishly thinks."

Ray Bradbury

18/01/2024

08/01/2024

Some places understand...

From Ghent’s De Krook to Helsinki’s Oodi, recent civic constructions have shared a vision of the library as a living room for the modern city

04/01/2024

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

"If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!

"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

29/12/2023

Portico library has secured funding for plans to create dining, meeting, exhibition and educational spaces

13/11/2023

Tom McGrath
"My mom spent decades as a librarian, so it was a blast to write this story for Boston Magazine about why public libraries are so awesome and necessary. In a time of book banning, misinformation, distrust, AI, and self-interest, libraries celebrate reading, knowledge, respect, civilized disagreement and community. If you haven't been to your local library lately, stop in and borrow a book."

Turns out, we all do. In the age of book bans and digital technology, a case for why Bostonians should love libraries more than ever.

06/11/2023

https://www.fnl.org.uk/

Saving the nation's written & printed heritage