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Camberwell Library
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Email southwark.libraries@southwark.gov.uk if you have any queries.
Email southwark.libraries@southwark.gov.uk if you have any queries.
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Address
48 Camberwell Green
Camberwell
SE5 7AL
How to get there
Bus: 12, 35, 40, 42, 45, 171, 176, 185, 436, 36, 345, 484
Train / Overground: Denmark Hill
Opening times
- Monday 9am to 8pm
- Tuesday 9am to 8pm
- Wednesday 9am to 8pm
- Thursday 9am to 8pm
- Friday 9am to 8pm
- Saturday 9am to 5pm
- Sunday 12pm to 4pm
Children: weekly and monthly activities
- Bookstart session - every Tuesday, 10am to 11.30am, term time (ages 0 to 5 and their parents / carers)
- Baby and Toddler sessions - every Monday, 10:30am to 12pm (ages 0 to 4) (term time only)
- Storystop - every Sunday, 1pm to 1.30pm (ages 3 to 8 and their parents / carers)
- Rhyme Time - every Friday 11am to 11.30am (ages 0 to 4)
- ChatterBooks - first Saturday of the month, 2pm to 3pm (ages 7 to 11)
- Kids Club - second, third and fourth Saturday of the month, 2pm to 3pm (ages 7 to 11)
Adults: weekly and monthly activities
- Feel Better with a Book - every Tuesday, 2pm to 4pm (no need to read anything in advance - just drop in, sit down and enjoy listening to a good story or poem)
- Book group - second Tuesday of every month, 7pm to 8pm (contact Meno Jacob for more information)
- Conversation Café - every Thursday, 11am to 12pm (free informal meeting to practice your English with other non English speakers)
- Creative writing - alternate Mondays, 2pm to 3pm
- Craft session - alternate Mondays, 2pm to 3pm
- Starting with computers, email and the internet - every Monday, Thursday and Friday, 2pm to 3pm and Saturday, 11am to 12pm (booking required in the library)
What else is on offer
- books, talking books and DVDs to borrow
- free eBooks and eAudiobooks
- free eNewspapers and eMagazines
- 27 adult study spaces available
- photocopying facilities
- free internet access
- free Wi-Fi
- meeting rooms for hire
Accessibility
- wheelchair access to both floors
- disabled toilets
- access to Dolphin Supernova software (allows screen magnification and audio assistance for visually impaired)
Page last updated: 20 February 2020
