Balerno Library

From this week our Bookbug will now take place at The Welcome Station!
No booking is required 🎉

📍The Welcome Station (13-15 Bridge Road EH14 7AQ)

⏰Wednesdays 3:30-4:00

See yous there! 📚🏡

Our Currie Library Clothes Swap is happening 10th October 10am–3pm!

✨ Bring 3 items
✨ Get 3 tokens
✨ Take home 3 new-to-you pieces

Please make sure items are adult clothing, clean, good quality and in excellent condition.

No suitable swaps? Keep your tokens for our next clothes swap!

📚🐛 Exciting Bookbug News for Balerno! 💜Coming soon!

We’re delighted to be teaming up with Balerno Village Trust and the new Welcome Station to bring Balerno Library Bookbug sessions to this fantastic community space from mid-October!

Dates and times will be confirmed soon so watch this space!

Join us for songs, stories, rhymes, fun and friendship for little ones and their grown-ups. 🎶📖✨

📍 The Welcome Station, Balerno
💜 We can’t wait to see you there! 🐛📚

**AUTHOR TALK ** - Join us at Colinton library on Wed 10th June at 6pm with crime author Tom Wood. A true story about the first modern murder and how the ground-breaking work of Scottish forensic scientists who developed new techniques helped solve the case and shape the future of scientific criminal investigation.

There will be an opportunity to meet the author / ask questions and have books signed.

Balerno Library will reopen on Monday 1st June normal hours resuming. We look forward to seeing you then.

Unfortunately Balerno Library will be closed tomorrow due to urgent essential work. We are hoping to reopen the library on Monday at 1pm as planned, and will provide further updates if this is not possible. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Currie library will be open tomorrow from 10-5pm as an alternative location.

The week beginning 18 May is Bookbug Week! To celebrate, why not bring your pre-schooler along with their favourite teddy bear or soft toy. Bookbug sessions at Balerno Library are on Wednesdays 3.30-4.00. Because we are very limited when it comes to space, please book a space 0131 529 5500. If at all possible, please book BEFORE the day, and remember to phone us to cancel if you find you won't make it. We look forward to seeing you!

Working at Balerno Library today afforded a great view of all the excitement of the Gala floats/parade day!

**CURRIE LIBRARY TEMPORARY CLOSURE**

WED 6th May 5pm & THURSDAY 7th May 10-5pm

To support the Scottish Parliament Elections, Currie Library will be used as a polling station on Thursday 7th May 2026 and will be closed to all library services.
It is also necessary to close the library from 5pm on Wednesday 6th May to support the set up of the polling station.

The library will reopen as normal on Friday 8th May 2026.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause during this time. Your nearest library during closure will be:

Oxgangs Library
343 Oxgangs Road North
Edinburgh
EH13 9LY