What’s available with Liverpool Library Services during lockdown?
To support efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19 and ensure the health and wellbeing of library customers and staff, all library sites have closed during the national lockdown for general public use but even during a lockdown there’s loads you can still do and access with Liverpool Libraries
The following services are on offer from Monday 11 January 2021:
Order and Collect from local libraries
Desperate for a good read to get you through lockdown? The why not make your designated walk to your local library and back? For further information or to order books, please contact Liverpool Libraries during the opening hours below by telephone or email (email is available during and outside opening hours). Don’t forget to include your library ticket number and a phone number in your email.
The library team will contact you when your books have arrived and are ready to collect at your chosen library. Please note, to keep everyone safe there is currently no access to browsing, public computers, printing or photocopying at these libraries
Central Library: Phone 0151 233 5858/59 Email: [email protected] Book collections and returns: Monday-Friday 10am-3pm
Allerton Library: Phone 0151 233 2365 Email: [email protected]
Book collections and returns: Tuesday and Wednesdays 10-3pm
Breck Road Library: Phone 0151 263 6116 Email: [email protected]
Book Collections and returns: Thursdays and Fridays 9-1pm
Croxteth Library: Phone 0151 546 5514 Email: [email protected]
Book collections and returns Tuesdays and Wednesdays 9am-1pm
Dovecot Library: Phone 0151 228 6446 Email: [email protected].
Book collections and returns: Monday 9.00am – 1.00pm
Fazakerley Library: Phone 0151 523 1073 Email: [email protected]
Book collections and returns: advised when contacted
Norris Green: Phone 0151 233 1096 Email: [email protected]
Book collections and returns: Monday, Tuesday and Friday 10-3pm
Sefton Park Library: Phone 0151 233 3996 Email: [email protected]
Book collections and book returns: Wednesday and Friday 10-3pm
Spellow Library: Phone 0151 293 8351 Email [email protected]
Book collections and book returns Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 10-3pm
Wavertree Library: Phone 0151 233 2125 Email [email protected]
Book collections and book returns: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 10-3pm
What other services are Liverpool Libraries offering?
- The Home Library Service: The Home Library Service is for people who live in Liverpool but cannot get to a library or ask anyone to collect books on their behalf and is still available. For more information please email [email protected]
- Read Liverpool eBooks, magazine and audiobooks
- AND Press Reader: Free access to newspapers and magazines viable through Read Liverpool
- Liverpool Record Office and Archives research services
- Business Services Online with the Business and Intellectual Property Centre: For the time being events and advice sessions will be online. There are online business tools, reference materials and databases you can still access from home. For more information please see https://liverpool.gov.uk/libraries/business-services/ or @BIPCLiverpool on Twitter.
- Liverpool Libraries Online: Events, learning opportunities and films you can access from home. We’ll try our best to help to keep you and your family engaged, informed and entertained through the lockdown period with short films, activities and links to activities you can join in with. Check on Twitter & Facebook @lpoocouncil @liverpoollib , YouTube at Liverpool Libraries and Information Services, and the website at https://liverpool.gov.uk/libraries during the next couple of months to see what’s on offer.
Look! Free online courses!
Did you know Liverpool Libraries offer a selection of course online for free? Including:
- Community Empowerment Technologies
- Entrepreneurship
- Introduction to Cybersecurity
- Introduction to the Internet of Things
- Programming Essentials in Python
Find out more on the website here or email [email protected]
