Category Archives: Virtual Library

Last Post from the Festival Fringe

The Festival Fringe is drawing to a close with just a couple of events to go! The Poetry on Loan Postcard Poets are appearing in the library theatre tonight.  Their theme this year is health and wellbeing, so this event should make everyone feel better!  Birmingham Libraries’ final Fringe event takes place on Saturday on read more »

Virtual Library of Birmingham – Book Group on 14th October 2011

This Friday, we will be hosting a ‘virtual book chat’ event as part of the Birmingham Book Festival 2011 fringe. What is a virtual book chat you ask? Well it’s much like a regular book club, where people can congregate and discuss a chosen work. Except this one is open to anyone, anywhere with an read more »

Welcome to the Virtual Library!

The Library of Birmingham opens in summer 2013 but you don’t need to wait until then to walk round it. We’ve built the library in Second Life, an online virtual world and you – or your avatar – can visit the building now and have your say on how you’d like to use the service read more »