Christmas and New Year

Please note that Auchterarder Library will be closed from 3pm on Wednesday 24 December 2025 and reopen at 10am on Tuesday 6 January 2026.

Staff Training

Please note that Auchterarder Library will be closed on Thursday 8 January 2026, for staff training.

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Ancestry

Interested in researching your family history? Join our fun, informal Family History Group. Help and guidance are available from our highly experienced volunteer. You may bring your own device, but library laptops will be made available on request. Please ask our library staff for further details.

Every fourth Friday of the month, from  2pm – 4pm. 

Bookateers

Bookateers is our fun and relaxed book club for 8 to 12 year olds. Join us on the first Thursday of the month (except July and August) from 3.30pm – 4.30pm as we explore books from different genres, have a hearty discussion about what we’ve been reading and chat about our thoughts and observations about the plot, setting and characters! Themed activities relating to our book choice mean there’s never a dull moment. All welcome.

For more information, call 01764 661435 or ask in the library.

Bookbug

Bookbug is the Scottish Book Trust’s national Early Years programme. Sessions are free, friendly, fun sessions of songs, rhymes and stories for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and their families and carers to enjoy together. Our sessions are suitable for ages 0+.

There are gentle songs for bouncing babies and loads of chances to move for toddlers who’ve found their feet! There are also stories and probably a few rhymes you’ll remember from your own childhood.

Bookbug at Auchterarder Library. Every Thursday from 2.30pm to 3pm.

Cafe Books

Don’t miss out on Café Books, a relaxed book group where you can chat over a cuppa about what you’ve been reading. Unlike traditional book clubs, there’s no set books – just bring your own reads to discuss. Book recommendations from each session will be compiled by library staff and shared via email.

First Tuesday of the month, from 5.30pm – 6.30pm. Free – drop-in session.

Dog Friendly Fridays and Saturdays

Eight libraries across Perth and Kinross welcome well-behaved dogs and their owners every Friday and Saturday. As part of the Dog-Friendly Perthshire initiative, Culture Perth and Kinross were the first library service in Scotland to welcome dogs into their buildings.

The Library service recognises the role that dogs play in providing support and companionship to many people across Perth and Kinross, and the help they give to a number of people in social situations.

The eight libraries taking part in Dog-Friendly Fridays and Saturdays are the AK Bell Library in Perth, along with AlythAuchterarderBlairgowrieComriePitlochry and Scone Libraries. All libraries taking part will be providing a bowl of water for their four-legged friends every Friday and Saturday.

NHS Hearing Aid Drop-In Clinic

If you require help with your hearing aids, then please drop in to Auchterarder Library.  The library offers free hearing aid batteries, and NHS Tayside volunteers, trained by the Audiology Department, can fit them for you.

Our volunteers are also able to replace tubing for standard hearing aids with ear moulds. They are also able to replace tubing and domes for Open Fit Style Hearing aids.

Second Thursday of every month, from 10am to 12pm.

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New Co-Chairs to head up Culture Perth and Kinross Board of Trustees

Chair and Vice Chair to step down after 10 years Culture Perth and Kinross today announced that Chair of the Board, Lord Charles Kinnoull, and Vice Chair, Jason Elles CA are stepping down at the end of their terms after ten years of leadership.

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Mini-exhibition aiming to create buzz around value of meadows

Through funding from the UK Government Prosperity Fund, Tayside Biodiversity Partnership commissioned Edinburgh-based environmental artist Natalie Taylor to create a new work raising awareness about the importance of nurturing wildflower meadows.   Workwear for Pollinators is a small but striking collection of re-imagined workwear designed to be worn while tending meadows and inspired by the pollinators […]

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Perth and Kinross Libraries to welcome back visitors

Culture Perth and Kinross is to reopen the doors of library buildings across Perth and Kinross and welcome back its customers.

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Popular Click and Collect service set to expand to new locations

Three additional locations across Perth and Kinross to offer library members the chance to get back into books.

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Culture Perth and Kinross expands Click and Collect service across region

The charitable trust is extending its new Click and Collect Service to new locations.

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Local History Month

It’s Local History Month and from 1 to 31 May Perth & Kinross Archives, Local & Family History is bringing you a packed programme of events to celebrate.

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Perth and Kinross Libraries to offer Dog Friendly Fridays

From November, eight libraries across Perth and Kinross will be opening their doors to well-behaved dogs and their owners every Friday.

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‘Digital Champions’ will boost IT skills among the over-50s

Culture Perth & Kinross has recruited a group of “Digital Champions” to encourage over-50s to boost their IT and technology skills.

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Perth & Kinross book lovers in for a literary treat with Book Week Scotland line up

A series of events to celebrate Book Week Scotland taking place in Perth, Crieff, Blairgowrie, Kinross and Auchterarder have been announced by Culture Perth & Kinross Libraries.