Fulbourn Village Library was re-opened by volunteers in November 2003 after having been closed by the County Council in October 2003. We remained in the Old School Building until May 2009, when we moved to new premises at The Swifts, Haggis Gap.

We are supported by the Cambridgeshire County Council Library Service who provide us with 1,000 books a year, 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 ten 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 13.5 hours per week. We have 40 volunteers who give up their time to help run our Library. We 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.

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.