Start the New Year with stories! Story Time at #Castlebar Library this week - 4pm Wednesday and 11am Thursday - and at #Ballina Library - 4pm Thursday. See you there!

Castlebar Library Book Club meets for the first time in 2018 tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 8pm. Little Deaths by Emma Flint is up for discussion, and we're sure there'll be many fine suggestions for our next read, after everbody's Christmas indulgences ;)

It's the book that some people love to hate, and others hate to love, but it was one of the biggest sellers and talking points of the year and now she's only gone and won the #CostaBookAwards prize for debut novel. So, hands up, who has read Eleanor Oliphant is Absolutely Fine?

We have absolutely no reservoir-ations in heartily endorsing the #CostaBookAwards fiction winner - Jon McGregor, Writer's Reservoir 13. It tells the haunting story of a missing teenage girl, and the way in which life grinds to a halt and then, ever so slowly, picks up pace again as the months and years pass after her disappearance.

Weeeeee're baaaackkk! Mayo County Library branches re-open at 10am today, folks! Happy New Year to one and all.

We may be closed at the moment, but that doesn't stop you accessing ebooks and audiobooks through BorrowBox at Mayo Library: Get BorrowBox to borrow and download free eBooks and eAudiobooks from the library in four easy steps. 1. Install the BorrowBox app | 2. Select Mayo County Library | 3. Activate with your library membership | 4. Enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks.

All of us at Mayo County Library would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our patrons, guests and visitors a happy, healthy, and safe Christmas. Gorge on #books rather than mince pies this year - better for you in every way!

We are finishing up today for Christmas, so please be sure to top up your holiday reading pile! #DecemberBooks

Some of Mayo County Library's best fiction of the year... #DecemberBooks

Obviously, we're all about the books, but this is a really gorgeous film - written & directed by Castlebar's own Kevin Henry, and now the DVD is on sale in Downtown Records Castlebar & Westport, as well as Golden Discs and Tower Dublin. Would make a great stocking filler! Mayo.ie The Mayo News The Connaught Telegraph Western People

Some #sports titles new to our shelves ... #DecemberBooks