Wareham Library

Events

Clubs and activities

Find out details and times of regular clubs and activities at Wareham Library:

• Bereavement counselling group: various dates
• Book chat: monthly - on the second Monday of every month from 10:30am to 11:30am Book chat: monthly - on the fourth Monday of every month from 10:30am to 11:30am
• Chatterbooks: monthly - on the last Tuesday of every month from 4pm to 5pm
• Citizens Advice (CA) help and advice sessions: Thursday from 9:30am to 12:30pm
• County Councillors Surgery: monthly - on the second Friday of every month from 10am to 12 noon
• County Councillors Surgery: monthly - on the third Tuesday of every month from 5pm to 6:15pm
• Craft and Chat: Friday from 1:30pm to 4pm
• Family History sessions: monthly - on the third Friday of every month from 9:30am to 10:45am
• Job Club: Tuesday from 1:30pm to 3:30pm
• Library Gets Lively: Friday from 11am to 11:30am
• Play reading group: monthly - on the last Saturday of every month from 2pm to 4pm
• Rhyme time: Tuesday from 2:15pm to 2:45pm
• Solve your IT queries with the Digital Champion: Tuesday from 2:45pm to 5pm
• Wareham Carers Group: monthly - on the second Tuesday of every month from 10am to 12 noon
• Wareham Reading Group: monthly - on the second Wednesday of every month from 10am to 12 noon

Services and facilities

Discover Purbeck Information Centre

Wareham Library now offers additional access as Discover Purbeck Information Centre shares the building. This co-location means that in addition to the library opening hours, library members can access the ground floor area when the Discover Purbeck Information Centre is open, and borrow and return books using the customer self-service machines. During this time the public network computers are unavailable.

Services

The library offers a wide range of services including:

• books for adults and young people
• feature films and music to hire
• drama sets and vocal scores
• reference and information services
• trace your family history and more with Ancestry Library edition
• local history and author collections including Thomas Hardy and TE Lawrence
• computers and internet access
• meeting rooms for use and hire
• books for health – find out more about Reading Well, Mood Boosting books, Books on Prescription and dementia help

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Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible entrance, buggy/pushchair access, full internal access
• Home Library service - a free library service for the housebound, people living in residential or nursing homes or sheltered housing
• Library services for visually impaired people
•  our Libraries have many books which may help you or your family support people on the autism spectrum. Find out more about support libraries can offer

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Information for schools and teachers

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Information for teenagers

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