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Has your little one started Reception? 📚🍎✏️Don’t forget to bring your special bookmark (which came home from school) int...
10/10/2026

Has your little one started Reception? 📚🍎✏️

Don’t forget to bring your special bookmark (which came home from school) into the library to take part in My First Library Adventure! 😊

Fifty lucky Reception pupils will win a personalised, signed book from Alice Hemming and Nicola Slater (author and illustrator of ‘The Leaf Thief’ series) with two overall winners enjoying a visit from Alice and Nicola with their whole class.

Check out our YouTube video to find out more and celebrate the joy of last year’s winners visits with author/illustrator Ged Adamson: https://youtu.be/Y-lwRZcXwEo

It's that time of the week... ! 📍🔍Do you recognise where this is? And the date? What are we looking towards? Which buil...
09/10/2026

It's that time of the week... ! 📍🔍

Do you recognise where this is? And the date? What are we looking towards? Which building would the lady on the right be standing outside of?

Post your answers in the comments below!

Last week we held our Writing for Wellbeing event where our library customers got to enjoy a morning of bibliotherapy wi...
07/10/2026

Last week we held our Writing for Wellbeing event where our library customers got to enjoy a morning of bibliotherapy with the award winning Ros Schwartz. The session explored reading to support wellbeing and mental health, as well as encouraging reflection and creativity! 📖💬

This was a free event in partnership with the Royal Literary Fund, which allowed us to provide this workshop for free. thank you to everyone who took part and an even bigger thank you to those who helped make this a possibility 📚✨

We have some exciting events coming up this Autumn! 🍂🥿Our Slipper Swap is tomorrow! Throw away your worn-out slippers an...
06/10/2026

We have some exciting events coming up this Autumn! 🍂

🥿Our Slipper Swap is tomorrow! Throw away your worn-out slippers and swap them for a brand-new free pair of anti-slip ones. No need to book. Just come along between 10am and 1pm.

👻Spooky St Albans will run on Wednesday 28th October. Learn about all things ghostly and beyond from St Albans! Ages 16+, tickets £5. Bookable in the library.

🎃Autumn Crafts! We'll be running two free drop-in sessions in October half-term: Tuesday 27th October and Thursday 29th October.

🎱 Our Bingo Afternoon is a free event for over 60s! Join us on Wednesday 4th November from 2.30-4.30pm for the chance to win a NINJA Air fryer! Booking available soon.

🎵Jaguar Jazz Presents: Ella Fitzgerald and Friends! Join us for live jazz in the library on Friday 13th November, ages 16+, tickets are £12 ⤵

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Time to reveal the answer to last week's ! 📍🔍This plaque can be found on a wall at the town centre end of Victoria Stre...
05/10/2026

Time to reveal the answer to last week's ! 📍🔍

This plaque can be found on a wall at the town centre end of Victoria Street. It commemorates Edmund Beaufort who was killed in the 1st Battle of St Albans, next to the Castle Inn. This was the first battle in the War of The Roses, which continued for over 30 years. This battle featured in Shakespeare’s play Henry VI part 1, where Beaufort had previously been told by a soothsayer he would die next to a castle. Research by local historians in 2023 found however, that the Castle Inn was on the opposite side of the road.

Well done if you guessed it correctly!

📚🚫 Banned Books Week UK 🚫📚Banned Books Week UK is a celebration of the freedom to read. It's a chance to discover books ...
04/10/2026

📚🚫 Banned Books Week UK 🚫📚

Banned Books Week UK is a celebration of the freedom to read. It's a chance to discover books that have been challenged or banned, and to explore stories, experiences and ideas from different perspectives.

From award-winning fiction and fantasy to powerful memoirs and thought-provoking non-fiction, why not pick up one of these titles this week?

📖 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
📖 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
📖 Gender Q***r by Maia Kobabe
📖 A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
📖 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
📖 Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
📖 Rebel Bodies by Sarah Graham
📖 Pageboy by Elliot Page
📖 Nobody's Girl by Virginia Giuffre
📖 Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
📖 Taking Up Space by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi
📖Nineteen Minutes by Jodie Picoult

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This month’s Herts Big Read explores the powerful connection between people and the natural world. 🌿🌞🌷🍄‍🟫From sweeping l...
03/10/2026

This month’s Herts Big Read explores the powerful connection between people and the natural world. 🌿🌞🌷🍄‍🟫

From sweeping landscapes to intimate wildlife encounters, these stories celebrate nature in all its beauty, fragility, and resilience. 💫

📚 Get Involved
Visit your local library to browse our displays and discover some fantastic staff-recommended reads!

💻 Prefer digital? You can join in from anywhere with our eLibrary.

📖Books featured:
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
Pod by Laline Paull
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Otherlands by Thomas Halliday
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Trials of Life by David Attenborough
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

It's ! 📍🔍Where is this wall plaque? And which war was this the first battle from? Post your answers in the comments bel...
02/10/2026

It's ! 📍🔍

Where is this wall plaque? And which war was this the first battle from?

Post your answers in the comments below!

Today is National Poetry Day! 💫An annual celebration of all thing's poetry, this year's theme is wonder! Find the extrao...
01/10/2026

Today is National Poetry Day! 💫

An annual celebration of all thing's poetry, this year's theme is wonder! Find the extraordinary in an ordinary day and immerse yourself in a poem. 😌

Not sure if poetry is your thing? Pop into the library and browse our poetry section, you can find this in our non-fiction section!

Did you know these poetry facts or have any facts to share yourself? 👀

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The Maltings
Saint Albans
AL13JQ

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

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