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Athlone Book Club for Adults meets on the 1st Thursday of every month from 6.30 - 7.30pm at Athlone Library.

All welcome!

Contact the library on 09064-42157 or email athlib@westmeathcoco.ie for enquiries

Would you like to learn more about our online resources and apps? The staff in Castlepollard Library will be here every Wednesday morning between 10am and 12pm to answer your questions. Bring along your device and learn how to download the apps and register your details.

Part of Westmeath Libraries Skills For Life programme of events.

Would you like to learn more about our online resources and apps? The staff in Athlone Library will be here every Wednesday morning between 10am and 12pm to answer your questions. Bring along your device and learn how to download the apps and register your details.

When you sign up to use our online resources you have access to the following, all for free: 

• ebooks
• eAudiobooks
• Language Learning
• Digital magazines
• Online Courses
• Digital newspapers

Would you like to learn more about our online resources and apps? The staff in Mullingar Library will be here every Wednesday morning between 10am and 12pm to answer your questions. Bring along your device and learn how to download the apps and register your details.

Join us every Tuesday at Moate Library where you can meet other parents and carers with babies and small children to relax and chat together while the children play. 

The group is self-sufficient and there is a selection of suitable toys and hand-picked books available. 

All are welcome, no need to book just pop in anytime between 10am -12pm.

September 8^th is International Literacy Day. To mark the day, Westmeath Libraries is exhibiting ‘The Glass Room Misinformation Edition’ exhibition in Athlone, Castlepollard and Moate Libraries from the 8^th September until the end of the month.

We hear a lot about misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories these days. But what makes a piece of information reliable or unreliable? Is something “misinformation” if it simply presents an opinion we don’t agree with? And what role do new technologies and social media platforms play in how misinformation spreads and the impact it has on our culture, politics and society?

This exhibition explores what misinformation is, why it’s shared and how it spreads. Find out how we, the individual users, take part through our many clicks, likes and shares. Learn about the business models, design practices and habits that create an environment where misinformation can spread or go viral. And understand how misinformation becomes normalised, and how the decisions made by the gatekeepers of technologies can influence our behaviours and opinions.

The Glass Room Misinformation Edition is available to view during library opening hours at Athlone, Castlepollard and Moate libraries until the end of September 2025.

Part of Westmeath Libraries' Skills for Life programme of events.

The Misinformation Edition has been developed by Tactical Tech in collaboration with a number of European partners: IFLA, FERS, Save the Children Italia, Save the Children Romania, Malta Chamber of Scientists and Science Gallery Dublin, as well as being co-funded by the European Union.

September 8^th is International Literacy Day. To mark the day, Westmeath Libraries is exhibiting ‘The Glass Room Misinformation Edition’ exhibition in Athlone, Castlepollard and Moate Libraries from the 8^th September until the end of the month.

We hear a lot about misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories these days. But what makes a piece of information reliable or unreliable? Is something “misinformation” if it simply presents an opinion we don’t agree with? And what role do new technologies and social media platforms play in how misinformation spreads and the impact it has on our culture, politics and society?

This exhibition explores what misinformation is, why it’s shared and how it spreads. Find out how we, the individual users, take part through our many clicks, likes and shares. Learn about the business models, design practices and habits that create an environment where misinformation can spread or go viral. And understand how misinformation becomes normalised, and how the decisions made by the gatekeepers of technologies can influence our behaviours and opinions.

The Glass Room Misinformation Edition is available to view during library opening hours at Athlone, Castlepollard and Moate libraries until the end of September 2025.

Part of Westmeath Libraries' Skills for Life programme of events.

The Misinformation Edition has been developed by Tactical Tech in collaboration with a number of European partners: IFLA, FERS, Save the Children Italia, Save the Children Romania, Malta Chamber of Scientists and Science Gallery Dublin, as well as being co-funded by the European Union.