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Dear patrons! We want to thank everyone who helped making the Great Potter Day 2024 svo memorable. Around 800 guest came and employees were a little bit fewer. The magic flowed around and through the library and the joy was pure and true!

Dear patrons and HP-lovers! Harry James Potter's birthday is 31st of July and we're gonna celebrate that at the Municipal Library! Program the whole day and you should definitely come and have fun!

(answer) Dear HP- and quizloving patrons and wellwishers! Friday is here and what follows is of course the ever so popular Friday quiz. Since our friend Harry Potter has his birthday in five days, the quiz is dedicated to him. Find five differences!

Dear authors and scholars! Applications for staying in the author- and scholar-apartment in David's house will be done in the same way as previous years.

On Thursday 25th of July between 10:00-12:00, a librarian with an extra green fingers will be helping with the harvest in our community garden. Stop by and pick up a salad and other delicious things for free.

Dear witches, wizards and muggles - on July 31st Harry Potter will be 44 years old. On the occasion of this day, we throw a party like last years and welcome you to the Great Potter's Day 2024!

(answer) Dear quizloving and patient patrons! Our system is back up and working, we are all very happy about that! Because of today - Friday 19th of July - we have our regular Friday quiz and as always you are supposed to find five differences between the pictures. This picture is taken while the system was down ... but still we always smile!

(Everything is working) Dear patrons! Because of a big system failure, all our library system services are unavailable. This means that the service at the Municipal Library will be VERY limited until things are back in order.

Dear patrons! We again thank you for shown patience because of the construction work outside of the Municipal Library and we have to announce another change of access: Brekkugata to the north from Oddeyrargata will be closed today (Wednesday 17th of July) and tomorrow (Thursday 18th of July).

Dear patrons and fantasy lovers! Recently we made changes to the fabulous fantasy department. We removed the iron-grating with new books and put this new shelf that Aija stands by instead.

(answer) Dear quiz-loving Akureyri-people and well-wishers of the Municipal Library. The quiz-maker appears to have mis-calculated the time and therefore the Friday quiz comes a little latter than usual. Better late than never, they say! This one is very hard! Find five differences and they can be tiny! Magnifying glass would not be a bad idea...