For the Love of Books
Episodes
High Hopes | Bea’s Books
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Catch up with Jennie and Pari as they take on Bea's next challenge - High Hopes. Will you be inspired by their recommendations? You'll need to listen ...
Three Sisters with O. J. Mullen (aka Owen)
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest and last episode of our main episodes in the current season of the For the Love of Books podcast, Chris Wilson, our E-Services Librarian...
Genre Mashup | Bea’s Books
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest Bea's Books Edition podcast sees Bea challenging Jennie and Pari to recommend books on the theme of Genre Mashup. Listen in to see if they ...
Battle Cries with Hannah Peckham
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode of the podcast our E-Services Librarian, Chris Wilson, caught up once again with children's Author Hannah Peckham. Hannah was ...
I Didn’t See That Coming | Bea’s Books
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's time for the next edition of our new mini-podcast Bea's Books where Jennie and Pari are challenged by Bea the bonsai tree to recommend books on t...
The Summer Reading Challenge is Coming
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the good weather arriving, libraries start to get excited about the Summer Reading Challenge coming. Chris Wilson, our E-Services Librarian, caug...
Strange Bedfellows | Bea’s Books
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our first Bea's Book standalone episode, join Pari and Jennie as they take on Bea's theme of Strange Bedfellows. Bea is their fabulous bonsai tree ...
The Health of Strangers with Lesley Kelly
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our new podcast, our E-Services Librarian, Chris Wilson, catches up with Edinburgh author Lesley Kelly. Lesley is best known for our series The Hea...
For the Love of Bookbug
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's Bookbug Week! We're celebrating on our podcast with this special episode featuring a special guest from the Scottish Book Trust, the people behin...
Atlases, Vikings and Zombies with David Macphail
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who doesn't love stories about Vikings or Ghosts? Or finding out interesting facts from around Scotland. That's where the fantastic books from well-kn...
Book Speed Dating
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
World Book Night is fast approaching and we thought we'd give you a few options for the perfect book to read on the night. Our E-Services Librarian, C...
Let’s Go Easter
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Spring is upon us and for North Lanarkshire Libraries that means it's Let's Go Easter time. Our libraries are awash with kids activities mostly with a...
Code Here Learn Here
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of our most successful events recently has been our Code Club sessions. Across various clubs, our Digital Learning team has been helping children ...
Authors Galore
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our podcast is back with a round-up of some exciting opportunities for our library members to get involved in. Our E-Services Librarian, Chris Wilson,...
Letters To Santa
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our finale of season 6, we get in the Christmas spirit with our For the Love of Books podcast and find out how our libraries are getting in the Chr...
Find a Scottish Read
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With yesterday being St. Andrew's Day, we decided to make our latest episode of our For the Love of Books podcast all about Scottish writers. Our E-Se...
Folk Tales of Lanarkshire
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's Book Week Scotland, which this year has the theme of Scotland's Stories. Our E-Services Librarian, Chris Wilson, had the chance to chat w...
Scotland’s Stories for Book Week Scotland
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Book Week Scotland is almost upon us with a national celebration of books and reading happening from November 14-20. We have lots of great special eve...
Libraries Week Round-up
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was Libraries Week recently and we had loads of great events. Our E-Services Librarian, Chris Wilson, managed to track down some of the staff invol...
Stories: A Poetry Collection
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the lead-up to National Poetry Day 2022, North Lanarkshire Libraries held a poetry competition. The prize for the winning poems was to have them pu...
It’s Time For That Coffee
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
September ends with our partner organisation Macmillan Cancer Support celebrating the World's Biggest Coffee Morning.Our libraries have always enj...
Conker and the Monkey Trap with Hannah Peckham
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today's podcast, our E-Services Librarian is joined by children's author Hannah Peckham. Hannah is the award-winning author of the Conker s...
Digital Summer
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our summer activities programme this year had a big digital element. Our LogintoLearn team toured our libraries with various coding activities and dig...
You Know What We Read This Summer pt 2
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We decided for our episode back with the new season to let you guys know what we have been reading in the summer months. Our E-Services Librarian, Ch...
Get To Know Your Librarian
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's always an exciting time when we get new Librarians joining our team, and we're excited to give you the chance to find out more about them...
Summer Fun Is Here
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Summertime is always an exciting time in libraries and for the first time in a few years, we can do events in person.So listen up, find out more about...
Newmains 60
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Newmains Library is turning the grand old age of 60 this year. To celebrate, our staff at the library have been hard at work putting together a fantas...
Discover North Lanarkshire’s History
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate Local History Month, we invited members of the Archives and Local History teams on our podcast to tell us about the fantastic resources a...
Keep the Heid
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yesterday was Keep the Heid, Scotland's Reading Moment - organised by the Scottish Library & Information Council and promoted in public librar...
Beat the Librarian Quiz
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For World Book Night our Librarian from Coatbridge Library, Thomas Clark, created a quiz for an event. We decided to bring a shortened version to our ...
Find Her First with Emma Christie
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For our new episode of the For the Love of Books podcast, our host and E-Services Librarian, Chris Wilson, is joined by a very special guest - Scottis...
Podcast This Blog
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Other than Librarians, Book Bloggers are probably the next closest group of people to so publicly display their love of books.We decided to invite two...
Be Scam Aware
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our podcast this week takes a little step away from books (although there is still a mention in there) to have a look at some of the recent work from ...
World Book Day Fun
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate World Book Day, our E-Services Librarian - Chris Wilson challenged some of our staff to tell us about their favourite children's book...
It‘s Beginning to Look a Lot Like...
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Which everyone knows is the perfect time for reading.In this episode of our podcast - the final in th...
Space Talk From Airdrie
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that inside Airdrie Library there is an Observatory? Our friends at the Airdrie Astronomical Association help to run the Observatory and ...
Mirrorland with Carole Johnstone
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's Book Week Scotland! To celebrate, Chris - our E-Services Librarian is joined on our podcast by Carole Johnstone, author of Mirrorland - a sma...
Scabby Queen with Kirstin Innes
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're very excited about our new For the Love of Books podcast episode. There is sometimes a book that comes out that book lovers everywhere start...
Get Those Teens Reading
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this week's episode of the For the Love of Books Podcast, our E-Services Librarian Chris is joined by two of North Lanarkshire's Library R...
Darkness Falls with Alex Knight
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate Libraries Week and to discuss his new book - Darkness Falls, our E-Services Librarian Chris is joined by Scottish crime writer Alex Knigh...
Enjoy the Great Bookish Menu
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With Black History Month coming next month, we thought we'd try to encourage people to tick off the Great Bookish Menu category 'Read a work o...
Discover Your Past
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With Adult Learners' Week on the horizon, we decided to take a break from chatting about books and instead had a chat about family history.Chris W...
What You've Been Borrowing
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's always interesting to see what is popular with our library members, and this last year, in particular, piqued our interest. With the librarie...
The Welcome Return of Libraries
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our podcast is back for Season 4 and we're kicking off with a celebration of most of our libraries now being reopened.Joining Chris Wilson, our E-...
A Fragile Season End
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our season end episode of our For the Love of Books Podcast, our E-Services Librarian Chris caught with the fantastic crime author Sarah Hilary to...
Bookbug's Big Splash
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bookbug is, without doubt, one of the libraries most favourite and popular activities. That is exactly why it was so important for us to find new ways...
(Pretend) Holiday Beach Reads
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone loves a holiday and, for a lot, a book is an essential part of that. This year, we still don't know if we can jet off to the sun. So we d...
We All Smile at Books
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Friday 23 April is World Book Night. The theme this year is Books That Make You Smile. With that in mind, we collated a collection of soundbites from ...
Surviving Lockdown, Hopeful Future
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With a brighter future (hopefully) on the horizon, Chris - our E-Services Librarian is joined on the podcast by Hilary - the Open Learning Officer for...
Don't Forget to Read Well NL
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our recent reading challenge for adults is soon drawing to a close. We wanted to shine a bit of a spotlight on it to show why we ran the challenge in ...
Choose To Challenge
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The theme for International Women's Day this year was Choose to Challenge. So we challenged some of the women in our librarian team to highlight s...
Tumble into World Book Day
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With World Book Day fast approaching on Thursday 4 March, our E-Services Librarian Chris took the opportunity this episode to catch up with children&#...
Focus on Health
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From the February 8 - 14, CultureNL Libraries are celebrating Love Life Love Libraries - a Health and Wellbeing Week. That's why for this episode ...
Reads and Names with SJ
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The CultureNL Libraries podcast, For the Love of Books, is back for season 3. We're kicking things off with a special guest appearance from well-k...
A Year in Reading
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's almost the end of 2020. Doesn't it seem like it's been the longest year in history? There have definitely been some challenging times...
Podcast To My Younger Self
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Released during Book Week Scotland 2020, Chris - the E-Services Librarian is joined by writer and journalist Jane Graham for a look back at her time a...
Skies Above Airdrie
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The night sky and Observatories might not be the first thing you associate with libraries, but Airdrie Library is a little different. The library hold...
Time to Learn
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Libraries aren't always about borrowing books. We have some fantastic learning opportunities available too. Like with most things this year, we've had...
Show Some Library Love
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Released during Libraries Week 2020, this special episode of our For the Love of Books podcast features an interview with the fantastic crime writer E...
Visions of Poetry
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With National Poetry Day on the horizon, Chris - our E-Services Librarian, met up virtually with award-winning Scottish poet Niall Campbell to chat ab...
You Know What We Read This Summer
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a strange old summer, hasn't it? There has been one constant though, there's always been a good book to read. In this episode, s...
Stories In Pictures
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone has a soft spot for a good picture book right? Our E-Services Librarian, Chris recently caught up with the fantastic children's author Ra...
The Wonderful World of BorrowBox
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
During the last few months, our eLibrary service BorrowBox has become hugely important and popular. Join host Chris, our E-Services Librarian as he is...
Getting Silly This Summer
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are back for season 2 of our For the Love of Books podcast. To get us started, we are having a look at our summer programmes the Summer Reading Cha...
Short Stories, Trams and All
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join our E-Services Librarian, Chris, for our final episode in season 1 where he chats about short stories and recommends some of his favourite short ...
The Album Filler
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join our E-Services Librarian for a bonus extra episode of the podcast exploring what activities and events we've got on during the summer as well...
Get Out That Reading Slump
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes we can get distracted from reading for various reasons. We explore this a little and discuss ways to get out of a reading slump and spend mo...
Big Books on the Big Screen
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in as we chat about our cinema experiences within our libraries and discuss some of the big books that cross over well to the big screen. Shar...
Where Did That Idea Come From?
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Catch up with our staff as we discuss debut novels and how some become huge hits. There are plenty of great titles mentioned to add to your to-read li...
Our Fictional Friends List
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the social media era, there are lots of great fictional characters that some of us wish could be part of our friends list. Join some of our staff t...
That Opening Though
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How important are the opening lines of a book to you? In this episode, you can join our staff talking about some of their favourite opening lines that...
Books, Learning and the Rest
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Discover how learning isn't just about courses. Celebrate Think. Learn. Libraries. learning fortnight with us as we explore our isoLEARN initiativ...
Bedtime Reads for Sweet Dreams
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready to celebrate Bookbug Week with our chat about some of our favourite Bookbug books and other children's reads for reading at bedtime.Shar...
For Starters We Have a Scottish Crime
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a chat about Scottish crime fiction and the launch of the Great Bookish Menu adult reading challenge.Share your thoughts on this episode b...
Great Reads for Isolation
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we chat about some great reads to get us through the current lockdown period. Share your thoughts on this episode by dropping us an email ...
For the Love of Books (Trailer)
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An introduction trailer to our new Podcast from North Lanarkshire Libraries.Share your thoughts on the podcast by dropping us an email at librarypodca...