Libraries

Includes library services, membership information, learning and events

Find your local library

Including opening times, locations and facilities

View all library locations

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Library membership

Information about your membership, how to join and how to use it

Health, Wellbeing and Independent Living

Including support to access online health information, and accessibility services at your local library

Learning

Includes free online digital skills courses, support for music and drama study, and adult literacy collections

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Joining a library

Library membership entitles you to borrow books, audiobooks, DVDs and more in Somerset and across the LibrariesWest group.

Find, reserve or renew a library item

Search the catalogue for books, audiobooks and DVDs, reserve items, renew items on loan

Library fees and charges

Information about library charges and fees, and how to pay them

What you can borrow from a library

We provide books and a wide range of other material for children and adults to borrow

Library Self service

The latest information on library self service

Mobile library

The mobile library provides a library service to areas in Somerset where there is no static library

Community Library Partnerships

Community Library Partnerships are run by a community partner in collaboration with us

Library information services

You can ask us any question but please remember we can only give information not advice

Audiobooks

Free talking books if you are visually impaired or cannot hold printed material

OpenPlus at Priorswood

We have introduced a new technology called OpenPlus into the library at Priorswood in Taunton

Library recommended reads

Our libraries provide books and audio-visual material for children and adults to borrow

Library community facilities

We provide exhibition space, support for reading groups, talks for schools and groups and meeting spaces including Warm Welcome spaces

Volunteer, donate and support your library

How to support your local library

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Supporting health and wellbeing in libraries

Loanable activity tracker watches, blood pressure monitors, stand on health monitors, NHS Health Checks

Health book collections

Our specialist health book collections are curated with the help of professionals and those with lived experience

Menopause books list

Somerset Libraries have put together a list of books to help you understand and learn about the menopause

Libraries celebrating Somerset

Connect with nature and get inspired

The social and economic value of Somerset Libraries

A report on the estimated social and economic value of library services in 2025 to 2026 using the EVOLS toolkit

Information for guests arriving from other countries

We offer a welcoming and safe space for you, and a place where you can use a range of services free of charge

Online health information

Where you can go for reliable health information online

Accessibility and autism friendly libraries

Information about accessibility and autism friendly libraries

Interactive projectors in libraries

Free use of the interactive projectors in selected libraries which can support people living with dementia, autism or learning difficulties

Free low impact activity and movement sessions

One-hour guided sessions in Taunton, Bridgwater and Yeovil libraries to support a range of health and mobility conditions

Free data for people in need

Selected Somerset libraries can offer free data vouchers or SIMs to people in need

Digital and health information support

We are offering support to access online health information and services

Thermal Imaging Camera Loaning Scheme

Helping you improve energy efficiency, lower your household bills, and reduce carbon emissions

Home Library Service

This service is available for people of any age, who may be confined to home

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Educational resources for learning at home

Fun and educational activities to keep your child occupied if they are not at school and learning from home

Learning digital skills online

Free online digital skills courses

Online Reference Tools

Access a range of free online reference sources through our Somerset Libraries subscription

‘Learn My Way’ basic computing skills

Free courses accessible to library members using computers in libraries, or at home

Adult literacy and learning English collections

We can help improve literacy and reading skills, and help people who are not native English speakers

Performing Arts Library

At Yeovil Library, offering resources to support music and drama study, recreation and performance

Digital and online resources

Information about Glass Box at Taunton Library, e-Books, e-Audiobooks, e-Magazines, e-Comics and e-Graphic Novels, e-Newspapers and borrowing an iPad

Information for guests arriving from other countries

We offer a welcoming and safe space for you, and a place where you can use a range of services free of charge

Our libraries

You can find information about your library, including opening times, locations and facilities

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Glass Box

A space for individual and collaborative working and learning attached to Taunton Library

Libraries video playlists

We have over 100 videos, all created by our talented staff all over Somerset, click below to watch your next one!

Computers and Wi-Fi

Each of our libraries provides public access computers

Wi-Fi in libraries

In some libraries you can connect to the internet with laptops and other mobile devices

Online Reference Tools

Access a range of free online reference sources through our Somerset Libraries subscription

Free data for people in need

Selected Somerset libraries can offer free data vouchers or SIMs to people in need

Library business tools

A great range of resources to support business owners and entrepreneurs

Digital books, audiobooks and magazines

Borrow digital books, audiobooks, magazines, comics and graphic novels and newspapers for free with a Library membership card

Borrow an iPad from the library

Somerset Council offers an iPad loaning scheme. Members of selected Somerset Libraries (16 and over) can borrow a device for up to six weeks free of charge

Libraries West Privacy Notice

What information we collect about you when you use our service, how we use that information and who we may share it with.

Library services for children, young people and families

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Library services for children, young people and families

The library is a great place for children of all ages, and no one is ever too young to join!

Find out more about Library services for children, young people and families

Library adventures

Take part in our new family project in Chard, Priorswood and Wellington libraries!

Find out more about Library Adventures