Do you enjoy
- Reading the latest books,newspapers and magazines?
- Surfing the internet?
- Watching the latest movies?
- Keeping up with what's happening in your favourite programmes?
- Chilling out with your favourite music?
- Following local bands?
- Or perhaps you're into sport and want to improve your football technique and check out the stats for your favourite team?
- Or are you interested in finding out about issues that concern you and your friends?
- Would you like to join a club or society?
Well check out your library for books and information on all of the above. There's a wide range of contemporary fiction, sci-fi, horror, romance, graphic novels etc for you to choose from, as well as non-fiction relevant to young people.
All libraries have computers and offer free internet access. Larger libraries have newspapers, CDs, videos and DVDs.
There are special facilities for young people at Compton Road and Garforth Library
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CYPAC (Connecting Young People at Compton) has
An information/advice service
- Free internet access
- Individual support work venue
- Small group workroom
GYFT (Garforth Youth Facility for Teenagers)
- CD ROMs and Music CDs
- Free internet access
- Paperbacks, magazines, newspapers
- Information and advice
Check with CYPAC 0113 214 3408 and GYFT 0113 224 3292 for further information.
The Junction - at the Armley one stop centre.
Connexions personal advisers provide confidential information and support for children and young people aged 13-19.
Opening times:
- Mondays 1pm - 8pm
- Thursdays 1pm - 8pm
For more information please contact The Junction: 0113 395 1646
Base Unit Librarians provide workshops in digital imaging, video editing, web design and creating music.
Opening times:
- Tuesdays 1pm - 6pm
- Fridays 1pm - 6pm
Base Unit computers and software are also available during normal Library opening hours.
For more information visit http://www.myspace.com/baseunit
Free time @ Central Library
Surf the net
It’s free to surf the net
Your Space
We have a Youth area called Your Space in Central Library where you can use the internet, meet your friends, study or relax. There are magazines, graphic novels, CDs, study guides and books to borrow. You could also join our teenage readers group which meets one Saturday a month.
Newspapers and magazines
Feel free to look at the national and local newspapers and the diverse range of magazines found throughout the building, for instance Vogue, Harpers and Queen, Internet, NME and Q.
Videos, DVDs music and cds
Sample the wide range of videos,DVDs and Cds held in the Music Library …including the CD Central collection of Cds by local bands. If you play a musical instrument, then improve your technique with the range of How to play books and sheet music.
Arts Space
Wander around the Arts Space and enjoy the regular exhibitions in the Tunnel and the Big Pink Space and displays including those by local artists. Or perhaps fashion or photography is more your thing? In which case the art library is the place to be.
Research your family tree or where you live in local and family history library
Have you seen our LEODIS photographic archive yet?