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Welcome to our new Dublin City Libraries book blog, Shelf Life! We will bring you the best of our library catalogue and help you find your next great read.

Take a look at the most popular digital picks on BorrowBox this year, as chosen by our Dublin City library members. Some of the titles you’ll know already, but some may be new to you and we hope you find lots of inspiration here for your reading and listening choices.

Take a look at the most popular digital picks on BorrowBox this year, as chosen by our Dublin City library members. Some of the titles you’ll know already, but some may be new to you and we hope you find lots of inspiration here for your reading and listening choices.

Take a look at the most popular digital picks on BorrowBox this year, as chosen by our Dublin City library members. Some of the titles you’ll know already, but some may be new to you and we hope you find lots of inspiration here for your reading and listening choices.

With books nominated by 80 libraries from 35 countries, four novels by Irish authors are in the running for the €100,000 prize sponsored by Dublin City Council.

Social stories explain social situations to autistic children and help them learn ways of behaving in these situations. These stories are sometimes called social scripts, social narratives or story-based interventions.

The 2025 winners of Nollaig na mBan will be celebrated at Charleville Mall Library on Monday 6th of January 2025 at 2pm. Tickets are free.

We're delighted to showcase our new 3D virtual videos of some of our libraries with sensory services and facilities.

Dublin City Libraries are the first public library service in the country to offer the communication boards. This is just one of a range of library measures supporting the broader Dublin City Council plan to make Dublin an autism-friendly city.