Author: Admin
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Summer fun for kids
The Summer Reading Challenge is now in full swing – but you can join at the library right up to Saturday 3 September. Children aged four-12 get a special wallet, stickers to collect and – if they read six books – a certificate, a mini frisbee and a medal. Under 4s can also join a…
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Reading Group: Night Train
Thursday 10 August, 6.30pm This month’s book is Night Train (1997) by Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, who became Sir Martin just before he died this year. It’s a comedy parody of American detective novels. (Female) veteran detective Mike Hoolihan re-investigates the case of a friend’s daughter who committed suicide… or did she? Pick…
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The Chairman’s and Treasurer’s reports for 2019/20
The Chairman’s report for 2019/20 Covid-19 closes the library’s doors… All ten of Lambeth’s libraries were shut down on 21st March 2020 in line with government recommendations on social distancing to counter the spread of COVID-19 and, specifically, because of the clear danger to both the general public and library staff from the maintenance of…
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SW8 THE MOVIE – map and links
Did you miss SW8 THE MOVIE at the library on Tuesday 26 November? Or perhaps you were there but want to explore the locations visited at your own pace. Here’s everything you need…
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SW8 THE MOVIE
Tuesday 26th November 7pm (doors open at 6.30pm) Join local resident Andrew Rogers to look at Vauxhall, Nine Elms, South Lambeth, Stockwell and around through the lens of cinema and television. Find out where some of your favourite films and TV series were shot. Learn about some of the stars who were born here, settled…
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Comrades, brothers and pioneers: the first public librarians in London
Michelle Johansen, researcher and writer on Victorian public libraries, tells the forgotten stories of the pioneering generation of public librarians in London – who helped create the “universities of the people”. Among these was Frank Burgoyne who managed the newly established public libraries in Lambeth – including Tate Free Library in South Lambeth Road (our…
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Unlock your hidden artist: a drawing class at the library
Tom Hughes, the new member of staff at Tate South Lambeth, will be running a Beginner’s Drawing Class on Fridays from 10:30am to 12 noon. This will involve drawing from still-life with pencils and paper. The emphasis will be on basic traditional drawing skills rather than creativity, but the inner artistic genius in everyone usually…
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Your Library needs YOU
The committee of Friends of TSL will have empty spaces coming up in the next six months, as some members leave the area or take on pressing family or work commitments. So we’re looking for volunteers to: develop and run our programme of talks (in cooperation with the Vauxhall Society) pursue fundraising opportunities run the…
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Library Forum July 2016
The library forum reports no progress so far on renovation and repair… The public library forum held on July 30th 2016 reported no forward movement on the renovation of the library or the repair of the non-functioning public lavatory. However the head of library services, Susanna Barnes, was able to assure the meeting that some…
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TSL’s very own carnival
The last Sunday and Monday of August is the date for the Notting Hill Carnival, Europe’s biggest street party. Tate South Lambeth Library is to run its own version – a community festival on Saturday August 27th. The Tate Carnival, which runs from 10am to 4pm, will feature: Food and drink Live music Face-painting and…
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Hope for Tate South Lambeth Library?
There’s a glimmer of hope for Tate South Lambeth Library, fated to become a fee-charging gym instead of a well-used free community resource for everyone. It’s a thin hope – but a real one – for all of Lambeth’s doomed libraries. Lambeth’s awful library plans were officially ‘called in’ at a council scrutiny cttee on…
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Petition to Lambeth Council
If you support us please sign our ePetition to Lambeth Council here: http://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?id=380 “We the undersigned petition the council to continue to provide a full library service at Tate South Lambeth Library (TSLL), and to drop the plan to turn TSLL into a gym with minimal, unstaffed book loan facilities” You can sign this even…