About Us

Fulbourn Village Library was re-opened by volunteers in November 2003 after having been closed by the County Council in October 2003.

We are supported by the Cambridgeshire County Council Library Service which provides us with 1,000 new books, adult and junior fiction, and they arrange regular exchanges of these books.  The Library Service also provides us with 2 computers for public use and another computer which is used by the volunteers and links us to the computer system operated in all of Cambridgeshire Libraries.  This link enables us to request books for our customers from anywhere within Cambridgeshire Libraries.  Anyone with a Cambridgeshire Library card can use our Library.  Within the Library Service our Library is known as a Library Access Point (LAP) and there are currently nine LAPs in the County.

To supplement the stock of County books, we rely on donations of books, both fiction and non-fiction titles, and due to the generosity of the community we have a steady supply of donations.

We have kept the same opening hours as before, 7 sessions, totalling 13½ hours per week.  We have 40 volunteers who give up their time to help run our Library.  We aim to have 2 volunteers on duty at all Library sessions.  Our volunteers also sort out the donated books and get them ready for the Library by sticking in date labels & bar codes.  All of our volunteers have to have Criminal Records clearance.

How can you help us?

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, then please visit the Library and leave your details with the volunteers on duty.

If you wish to donate books to our Library, then please bring them in during opening hours.  If we already have some of the books in our Library or we do not think they are suitable, then we will pass them on to our fundraising group, The Friends of Fulbourn Library, who will sell them at one of their monthly book sales.

The most important help you can give us is by joining the Library, if you are not already a member, and by borrowing lots of books.  The Library Service constantly monitors our success by looking at our borrowing figures.  So far we have achieved the targets set, but if we are to ensure our continued success we need to increase our borrowings.

Library users are really pleased with our selection of books and are very grateful for all of our efforts. This makes it an extremely rewarding and worthwhile venture.

Please come to see us and support Fulbourn Village Library.