Libraries

Use the online library catalogue for loans, renewals, reservations and more!

News and events

• Libraries news and events - Libraries Aloud
• Libraries news and events for young people
• National Year of Reading
• Adult Learners' Week 2008
• Information, Advice & Guidance sessions

About us

• Find our libraries and when they are open
• How to join and what you can borrow
• Free computer access in all our libraries
• Young People's Library Service
• Reference services: including our magazines and newspapers
• Local Studies: for local and family history

24/7 Internet library – our online services

• The library catalogue: search the catalogue, reserve books, check your personal record, renew your loans
• Stock suggestion form: use this form to suggest a title for stock
• Online reference services: encyclopaedias, dictionaries, biographies, newspaper archives, business information, art, music, family history
• e-books: on IT, health, psychology, business, plus the classics
• Downloadable audiobooks: listen on your PC or MP3 player
• More online services

Services for children and teens

• Visit the Young People's Library Service website.
• News and events
• Bookstart
• Chatterbooks reading groups
• Homework websites for children
• Homework and study websites for teenagers
• Storytime and Tiny Teddies
• Schools' Library and Resource Service

Services for adults

• Reading groups
• Library services for the housebound
• Library stock sales - sales of surplus books via our online sale