Libraries

"Inland" by Gerald Murname. A might good read.

Library of a manor house

Barnsley Book Festival 2025

Ad Feature Barnsley Book Festival’s stellar 2025 line-up is a real page-turner

Waverley Junior Academy, which was once criticised for being too small and oversubscribed, will receive a £2m extension to add six new classrooms.

£2m expansion to create six new classrooms at oversubscribed school

Michael Rosen

Ad Feature From ‘Bear Hunts’ to Barnsley! Michael Rosen to headline Book Festival

We have transformed 26 pictures of Sheffield life in 1967 from the original black and white into colour

26 pictures, now in colour, show life in Sheffield in 1967

The Story Shell

Ad Feature The Story Shell brings art space fun with Barnsley Libraries

Colley WMC (inset: Neil Anderson)

Dirty Stop Out’s Guide to Working Men’s Clubs available now

Sheffield unusual polling station locations

9 unusual polling stations, including luxury hotel and Bramall Lane

11 Sheffield pubs doubling up as polling booths this general election

Poster

Free ‘Random Acrylics’ Art Exhibition throughout June in Wickersley Library

Sheffield libraries in 11 city suburbs have new opening times. Picture: Sheffield Council

New opening times for libraries approved by users

Andrew McMillan - Barnsley Book Festival

One month left of Barnsley's first ever book festival

Barnsley Book Festival

First ever Barnsley Book Festival kicks off Friday February 2, 2024

NSPCC celebrates Talk PANTS Week as part of national campaign to prevent children from abuse.

NSPCC's national campaign to prevent children from abuse

Nick Partridge BEM

Football Heritage Charity chooses new boss

We have taken 24 old black and white pictures of Sheffield in 1967 - and transformed them into colour

24 nostalgic pictures transformed to colour show how we lived in 1967

Barclays will close another 14 branches in the UK

Barclays confirms more high street branch closures across the UK

A rare first edition 1996 Bloomsbury publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone purchased from a library for pennies is set to fetch up to £5,000 at auction.

Harry Potter book bought for 30p turns out to be worth £5,000

The charred remains of pigeon lofts at Skye Edge Fields in Sheffield, where around 150 birds were killed in a fire on Friday, April 28. A previous fire at the same site in July 2022 killed an estimated 200 pigeons. There have been calls to clear up the site and do more to tackle fly-tipping and arson there. Photos: Neil Jenkinson

Fire kills '150' birds as flames tear through city pigeon lofts again

Former Sheffield Lord Mayor, Michael Pye, passed away at home

Sadness at death of former Lord Mayor

A number of “warm spaces” inside public libraries will be available for Rotherham residents struggling with the cost of energy bills this winter.

Energy crisis: Rotherham Council offers warm spaces to help with energy costs

Let children get out and about

7 half-term hacks to keep your kids entertained on a budget

Sheffield Central Library

Sheffield Council scraps library fines for late books

Libraries will be reviewed as Sheffield Council tries to deal with budget cuts.

Libraries will be reviewed as Council struggles with budget cuts

RivelinCo will send out starter kits so that residents can build their own Little Free Libraries in February.

Sheffield community project to help residents create 'little libraries' on their...

Library.

Covid rules lifted at Sheffield libraries

A range of safety measures will be in place when libraries in Sheffield begin to reopen from next week

Four libraries in Sheffield to reopen next week – this is what you need to know

Digesting History will be offering people a chance to step back in time and enjoy an Anglo-Saxon feast

Online historical feast taking place

Sheffield Council has announced plans to offer a 'order and collect' service in some city libraries from August 10

Sheffield libraries to offer 'order and collect' service

Revealed - the most borrowed books of the year. Have your favourites made the li...

Digital libraries experience a surge in membership amid lockdown

One of the images which was used in the Sheffield: War and Peace exhibition

Explore city history - and your own

Boris Johnson ordered the public to stay at home during a TV broadcast on Monday night (Getty Images)

Here's everything you need to know about new coronavirus restrictions as UK ente...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson made an address to the nation in which he set out a series of measures to place the UK on lockdown

Everything you need to know about when you can leave your house as the United Ki...

Upperthorpe Library is one of the ones that will close.

Coronavirus: Libraries in Sheffield close due to transmission fears and voluntee...

Darnall Wishing Tree

Sheffield 'Wishing Tree' consultation on the future of art

Picture Sheffield

Do you remember these Sheffield Libraries?

Frecheville Libary and Learning Centre

"Someone has to act as caretakers of our precious libraries"

Top Stories from The Star

Passengers queuing at the Sheffield Station tram stop after a derailment earlier

Cancellations and disruption as tram derails in Sheffield city centre

Elarna Garner-Abbey, aged 19, was sentenced to 18 months at a youth detention centre for her involvement at the Manvers riots, while her ex partner Philip Wood will face two years behind bars

Pregnant woman jailed for role in riot

Two people have been released on bail following a suspected stabbing

Pair released on bail after suspected stabbing