It's #LibrariesWeek - and we have a few facts about our wonderful Children's Libraries for you! Did you know Norwich created its first separate juvenile library in 1889? Books were sent in boxes to schools ready for teachers - a bit like an old school version of @NorfolkELS!
In 1921 a new Children's Library was created where librarians taught lessons to children, and issues of children's books rose to 41k a year. In '52 the Children's Library was relocated to a brighter and more spacious area showing how seriously Norwich took children's literature!
Completed in November 2001 following the 1994 Norwich Central Library fire, The Millennium Library made its home in @TheForumNorwich, and included a dedicated, enclosed children's area that hosted weekly babytimes and storytimes as well as school visits.
Nowadays we have 2 children's libraries (for ages 0-7 and for ages 8-12), we run 3 rhyme/story sessions a week, welcome regular school visits and account for almost 50% of the entire issues of the whole library - hundreds of thousands of issues a year!
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