Southwark Library Catalogue and Library Management System downtime

Due to an essential system upgrade the Southwark Library Catalogue and Library Management System will be unavailable for several days from Monday 27th May.
You will not be able to access your online library account during this period.
All Southwark libraries will be open as normal. You will still be able to borrow and return items, use library PCs, printing and wifi at any of our libraries.

Southwark Festival of Words

Coming soon! The Southwark Festival of Words, a literary festival for all ages across local libraries, is back from 15 to 22 June 2024. This year our theme is Stories From Around the World, a fantastic mix of poets, storytellers, artists and spoken word.

Southwark Libraries and Heritage Strategy

We want all residents to be proud of their libraries, to think of them as the first place they go for information, access to council services, for reading, learning and cultural enrichment.

In order to ensure that these services are relevant and provide what our communities want and need we launched the ‘Let’s talk about libraries’ consultation in September 2018. Results from the consultation have been used to inform the Southwark Libraries and Heritage Strategy 2019-2022 ^{(PDF, 1.9mb)}.

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