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A group of four girls running towards a mobile library van outside Durrington Library in 1974

In 2025 West Sussex Library Service is 100 years old!

To celebrate, we’re planning a year filled with events and activities. As part of the celebrations, we’re asking you to share your special library memories.

In 2025 West Sussex Library Service is 100 years old!

To celebrate, we’re planning a year filled with events and activities. As part of the celebrations, we’re asking you to share your special library memories.

Share your library experience

Do you remember getting your first library card, finding a favourite spot in the library, or making new friends at a library activity? 

We want to hear your stories and what your library means to you.

You can share written, visual or video memories; if you're sharing images, please make sure you have the consent of everyone who is included.

You can share as many memories as you like - to submit pictures or videos, select the picture icon or video camera icon that appear when you click in the box.

Don't forget, once they are approved by our admin team, any stories you share will be publicly visible and may be used in internal or external newsletters, displayed in our libraries and shared on our social media accounts. 


Thank you for sharing your library memory with us. 

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    goring church school

    by caswall, about 1 month ago
    I am 87 years old. When I was at Goring Church school, from the age about 6, I remember the library was held in the main classroom. The books were kept in folding cupboards and they were opened on Saturdays for the public. We each had a ticket with a pocket for the small card from the book which was tucked in and filed away. When we returned the book, the piece of card was put back in the book, which was put back on the shelves.
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    Family moments

    by M. Rigby, about 1 month ago
    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... Continue reading
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    The thrill of a Saturday morning library visit

    by JoS, about 1 month ago
    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!



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    Falling back in love with books

    by Lauren , about 2 months ago
    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... Continue reading
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