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The thrill of a Saturday morning library visit

I can still remember the thrill of going to the library as a child and swapping my library books for new ones on a Saturday morning.

If I hadn’t quite finished one of the books then I’d wake up extra early to finish it, just so I could get the maximum number of new books out.
If the next book in any series I was reading was available on the shelf then that was extra special.
Even now the anticipation of starting a new book is one of my greatest delights. Thank you West Sussex Library Service!

Falling back in love with books

I started working for West Sussex Libraries in 2019 as a casual library assistant. Having somehow not spent much time in my childhood library, despite loving stories, it was wonderful to see the daily goings on in Burgess Hill Library. I soon had my own library card, and many, many, loans. I remember looking at all the displays and books/authors I had never heard of and left like a child in a sweet shop! Being around so many books, activities, and other book lovers reignited that joy for me. Where I had before read maybe a couple of books a…

Family moments

I can remember as a child along with my sister once a month on a Thursday after school the thrill of racing home and jumping in the car with mum and dad and going for our monthly library visit we all changed our books, mum and dad off to the adult sections and my sister and I off to the children's such a wonderful monthly family memory all changing our books together and the thrill of seeing what we had all chosen then off home to all read our choices, it instilled a love of reading for us all which…