Castle Donington Library

Delven Lane, Castle Donington, Derbyshire DE74 2LJ
Map with location of Castle Donington Library
Tel: 0116 305 3561
Fax: 01332 810183
E-mail: castledoningtonlibrary@leics.gov.uk

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About the Library

Easter and other closures in Leicestershire Libraries

A small library on Delven Lane on the right as you go up the hill towards the community college. The library is all on one level.

Judith Neville, the library manager responsible for Castle Donington, is based at Shepshed Library. Larger collections can be found at Loughborough Library.

"This Year We Will" poster (PDF)

This library offers the following facilties:

Service	Yes/No	Service	Yes/No
Automatic doors	Yes	Local Studies and Family History	Yes
Baby Changing Facilities	No	Children's Area	Yes
Audio/Talking Books	Yes	Children's story tapes/CDs	Yes
DVDs	Yes	Bookstart	Yes
Reference Books \| Information Services	Yes	Wriggly Readers/ Storytime	Yes
Access to courses/classes	Yes	Photocopier	Yes
Newspapers	Yes	Scanner	Yes
Local / Tourism information	Yes	Printer	Yes
Study space / Homework help	Yes	Fax machine	Yes
Exhibition/Display space	No	BBC Webwise, IT for All, MS Office training	Yes
Housebound reader service	Yes	Opening Times

Local Studies

Information about the local community including parish, district and county information

Local studies information including books and village file on Castle Donington

Census returns and parish registers

Ancestry Library Edition is available in this library free of charge to do family history research.

Events/What's On

Gardening Talk: Graham Pavey (Lecturer for the RHS) - The Mistakes Gardeners Make - Monday 22 March, 6.00pm - 7.00pm
Graham A.Pavey has been designing gardens since completing his training at the English Gardening School in the 1980s. He has been involved with over approaching 1000 gardens nationwide, ranging from the smallest courtyard to projects of several acres.

As a writer his work has been published in many national and local newspapers including The Sunday Times, Homeflair, The Rose, Creative Ideas and Your New Home. He has also had 6 books published. He was co-founder of The Gardeners' Academy and is a speaker for the Royal Horticultural Society giving talks and demonstrations nationwide. He appears regularly at garden shows giving demonstrations and appearing on Gardeners' Question Time panels.

He is a garden photographer and provides photos to accompany his articles and books from his small library. He judges at garden shows and has judged the gardens at the East of England show.

Active Together - walks and physical activities in the North West Leicestershire District (2Mb PDF)

Events Guide | What's On

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