Community Library March Events
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MARCH EVENTS
Cuppa with a Copper – 2:30 Wed. March 13th
Wellbeing Group – 2-3 Friday March 15th.
Talks at the Hub – Gardeners’ Question Time 7 p.m. Friday March 22nd
Our horticultural experts: Mike Tucker and Joyce Hoy are waiting to answer your gardening questions.
Everything Welsh
To celebrate St. David’s Day, this month’s article focuses on Wales and the Welsh Language.
Clwb Clonc, our Welsh language group has been meeting for about eight years now and has been so successful that we have had to split it into two groups. Members range from native speakers to entry level learners.
We just chat and develop our speaking skills. There is no pressure to speak, and new members often find it useful to just sit and listen to how the language is pronounced and spoken. Members say that practising the language improves their vocabulary, builds their confidence, and advances fluency.
We work closely with Dysgu Cymraeg, and many of our members attend classes at Palmerston and other centres across the Vale. To support their learning, the Hub holds reference copies of all the workbooks used by these centres from entry level to proficiency and we hold the full range of the recommended reading books to support the courses which are available for loan.
This year, the Welsh National Eisteddfod, which is the largest cultural festival in Europe, is held in Rhondda Cynon Taf so we are planning a bus trip to join the fun. Further details to be released soon.
Whether you are a Welsh learner, a native speaker or just interested in Welsh history and culture, are you aware of the resources freely available to you from libraries across the Vale and from the Vale of Glamorgan Library page?
My Digital Library provides a fantastic collection of online resources – over 200 top e-magazines, 25,000 e-books and hundreds of e-audio books, e-comics – all for free, simply join the library! Scroll down the page to also find access to a selection of reference resources about Wales, free newspaper archives and family history resources.
People’s Collection Wales is a free website dedicated to bringing together Wales’s heritage. The Collection is full of fascinating photographs, documents, audio and video recordings and stories that link to the history, culture, and people of Wales. These items have been contributed to the People’s Collection Wales website by national institutions, individuals, local community groups and small libraries, archives, and museums across Wales.
The National Library of Wales offers a wide range of electronic sources, ranging from scholarly journals to encyclopaedias and newspapers. Ask a Librarian is a free online service that allows you to ask a question to the enquiries team at the National Library of Wales. The National Library’s dedicated, knowledgeable, and bilingual enquiries staff are available to answer enquiries which are based on the varied collections held at the library, as well as basic genealogical enquiries.
BorrowBox. Enjoying e-books and e-audiobooks? The BorrowBox website and app is now available in Welsh.
Dictionary of Welsh Biography This website contains over five thousand concise biographies of Welsh people who have made a significant contribution to national life, whether in Wales or more widely.
Geiradur Prifysgol Cymru is the only standard historical dictionary of the Welsh language. It presents the vocabulary of the Welsh language from the earliest Old Welsh texts, through the abundant literature of the Medieval and Modern periods, to the huge expansion in vocabulary resulting from the wider use of Welsh in all aspects of life in the last half century.
The Welsh Academy English-Welsh Dictionary online. A digital version of the Dictionary