Children & families
Storytime Thursdays at 10:30, school-holiday programs, and first library cards issued with due ceremony.
WATTLEBROOK LIBRARY & COMMONS
Everything in this building is yours.
18,000 books, a warm reading room, and five volunteers who know your name. The card is free, takes four minutes at the desk, and never expires.
OPEN TODAY 9–5
2 Corbett Square, Wattlebrook
Your library card, stamped with today's date at the desk. Due: never.
027.4 WATNON-FICTION · GROUND FLOOR
WATTLEBROOK LIBRARY & COMMONS
One card. Eight loans. No fines since 2019.
DUE: NEVER
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QUICK REFERENCESEC. 02 / 08 · FRONT DESK
What do you need today?
DATE-DUE SLIPSEC. 03 / 08 · THIS WEEK
This week at Wattlebrook
- TUE
6:00 PM
BOOK CLUB
The Tuesday Circle, new members welcome
Reading Room
- WED
2:00 PM
TECH HELP
Bring your phone and your questions
Community Room
- THU
10:30 AM
STORYTIME
Dragons, definitely dragons
Children's Corner
- FRI
3:30 PM
AFTER SCHOOL
Homework club, biscuits supplied
Community Room
- SAT
10:00 AM
AUTHOR TALK
A local historian on the flood of '54
Reading Room
THE CATALOGUESEC. 04 / 08 · PROGRAMS
The programs, by call number
Everything we run, filed the way a library files things. Pull a card, pick a day, turn up. Nothing needs a login and almost nothing needs a booking.
Learning & digital help
Tech help Wednesdays, one-on-one bookings for the tricky stuff, and English conversation over tea.
Clubs & circles
Two book clubs, a writers' circle, and the Friday chess table that has never once been quiet.
Rooms & the Commons
A community room for hire, study desks, fast wifi, and the good quiet when you need it.
READING ROOMSEC. 05 / 08 · THE BUILDING
Four rooms, one address
The building is 1913 brick with 2021 wifi. Every room is step-free, the lamps are the proper green ones, and nobody has ever been shushed in the Children's Corner.
The Reading Room
Long oak tables, green lamps, the good quiet.
The Children's Corner
Picture books face-out, cushions on the floor, dragons on Thursdays.
The Community Room
Forty chairs, a lectern, a kettle. Yours from $15 an hour.
The Stacks
18,000 books and the wheeled ladder you have always wanted.
SHELF TALKERSSEC. 06 / 08 · STAFF PICKS
Typed, signed, and pressed on you at the desk
The Lighthouse Accounts
A widow audits her late husband's impossible ledgers. I shelved it three times; it kept coming home with me.
Small Gods of the Cul-de-sac
Suburban myth in eleven backyards. Read the sprinkler chapter out loud to someone you like.
A Field Guide to Going Home
Essays on returning to small towns. Chapter nine is about a library. We all cried, professionally.
- 18,000
- books on the shelves
- 210
- storytimes a year
- 5
- volunteers on the roster
- 1
- resident cat (Biscuit)
MEMBERSHIPSEC. 07 / 08 · THE CARD
One card. Eight loans. No fines.
The card is issued at the desk in about four minutes: bring anything with your name on it. It opens the shelves, the digital library, the rooms and the printer, and it never expires.
- Free
Resident
Borrow eight things at a time, forever.
- $40 / year
Supporter
The card, plus your name pasted inside a new book every year.
- $120 / year
Friends of Wattlebrook
The people who bought the new roof. Invitations, gratitude, cake.
Your card is waiting at the desk.
2 Corbett Square, Wattlebrook: step-free from the square, parking on Mill Lane, a hearing loop at the desk, and the kettle on by 9:15.
SEC. 08 / 08 · THE DESK