Libraries

We offer an extensive collection of books, films, digital products and much more. There’s everything you need to know about finding your local library, how to join, browse our catalogue, and reserve items. See our events, our charges, how to use our facilities, and how to support your library.

Find your local library

Including opening times, locations and facilities

View all library locations

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Find, reserve or renew a library item

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

Free low impact activity and movement sessions

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

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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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New Library Management System for Somerset Libraries

Latest update from our Library Services Strategic Manager

Library membership

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

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

How to book library facilities

You can book meetings rooms, exhibition space and courses held in libraries

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 can't 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

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

How to support your local library

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Menopause

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

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

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 Glastonbury 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 loans

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

Blood Pressure Monitoring Kit – free loans

Blood pressure monitor kits are available for loan from libraries in the county to raise awareness of high blood pressure

Death Positive Libraries

Book collections focused on dying, death and grief available to loan from four of our libraries

Activity Tracker Watch Loaning Scheme

Bookmark your progress with an Activity Tracker Watch

Reflections

People in Somerset share their Lockdown reflections

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Learning Online

Free online digital skills courses

Children and young people library information

Helping children and young people, their parents and carers make the most of our libraries

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

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

Free data for people in need

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

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

Printing in the library from your own device

Information about wireless printing from your own devices

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

Activity Tracker Watch Loaning Scheme

Bookmark your progress with an Activity Tracker Watch

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.

What's your story?

We would love to know how Somerset Library services has helped or supported you in some way (be it large or small). Sharing your story is a powerful way to show the positive impacts that our services have on people’s lives.

You can submit your story online, or you could speak to any library staff who can submit your story on your behalf. We will not share any personal details.

Thank you for helping us celebrate the many different ways we support the community in Somerset!

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