Libraries
There are 23 libraries in Liverpool. The largest is the Central Library in the City Centre. There are 22 smaller community libraries spread across the city.
For more information about the historic Central Library buildings, and to take a virtual tour please visit the Civic Buildings website.
A mobile library service is also available, which serves over ninety locations in the city.
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Services
You can:
- borrow books and spoken-word cassettes free of charge
- borrow CDs and DVDs for a small charge
- borrow music, including orchestral sets and vocal parts, from one of the largest music collections in the country
- renew your loans online
- find information for your own individual research.
- find business and marketing information
- use computers with free Internet and e-mail access (UK Online centres)
- research local and family history
- access services if you have a disability
- access mobile and home library services (see below)
- borrow material in different languages (see Toxteth, Edge Hill and Wavertree Library)
- search our online subscriptions
- speak to a librarian online through the Peoples Network Services
For general library enquiries and renewals telephone 0151 233 3000 or visit the How to find us section of this site.
Mobile and home library services
Two housebound delivery vans and one mobile library operate across the city. The Home Library Service operates 9-5 Mon-Friday and is available to people who because of health or disability are unable to use a library
We deliver books, large print books, Spoken word CD's and cassettes and Videos and serve people in their own home, in sheltered accommodation and in nursing homes, day centres, etc.
The Mobile Library concentrates on areas of social exclusion or where there is no easily accessible community library and also serves sheltered housing, nursing homes nurseries and schools.
The service operates Monday-Friday and length of stay at site varies from 30 minutes to 2.5 hours.
For further information about the home library service telephone 0151 225 5171.
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