You can follow us on Facebook for a range of activities and events including Story Time, Baby Bounce & Rhyme and Craft Time. You can also join one of our Adult Book Chat, Creative Writing or Wellness groups. Simply visit Facebook/Staffordshire Libraries to take part.

Follow us on Twitter for updates and engaging posts.

Our online library is open 24 hours a day for FREE eBooks, eAudio, eMagazines, eComics and eNewspapers.

For more information about our services visit www.staffordshire.gov.uk/Libraries

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Libraries - Information you can trust

Lockdowns are tough if you need extra support or want to find out how you can help others visit our library lockdown resources page.

We are constantly updating this page with new links, everything from health and wellbeing to things for children to do, virtual museum tours and the latest Coronavirus information from trusted sources.

We are providing a limited service from the following libraries only:

Burton, Cannock, Leek, Lichfield, Perton, Newcastle, Stafford and Tamworth.

Opening times will be:

Monday to Friday 10:00 am until 4:00 pm

Saturday 9:00 am until 1:00 pm

Libraries will not open on Sundays.

Rugeley, Burntwood, Stone, Wombourne, Codsall, Kidsgrove, Biddulph, Uttoxeter and our mobile libraries will remain closed temporarily

You will be able to return books, order books for pick up via ‘order and collect’ and request books from an open library.

We will also continue to offer our Home Reader service.

There are currently no overdue charges for the late return of items.

Browsing of book stock is currently unavailable.

Public computers and printing are available to use within our 8 open libraries if booked in advance. For more information about bookings or printing contact your local library.

For more information about services at our 27 Community Managed Libraries please contact your Community Managed Library directly.

Telephone numbers for all Staffordshire Libraries can be found on the Staffordshire Libraries webpage.

When visiting a Staffordshire Library, you will be required to wear a mask or face covering. We are using contact tracing within all our buildings.

Great news! We are adding more Borrowbox campaign titles to our eLibrary from 18th January, available to borrow for a short time without queuing! There’s Lee Child, Patricia Wilson, Liz Pichon, Andy Griffiths, Mara Timon and more…

In the meantime we still have the December titles available until the end of January so borrow before they're gone!

There are a selection of eBooks and eAudio books and titles for children so something for all the family, but make sure you borrow before they are gone!

Please visit Borrowbox, either via the App on your smart phone or tablet, or at our eLibrary and start your next great read!

Jigsaw Time

Have some fun and try to solve our Jigsaw!

How long did it take you to complete? Why not let us know?

We'll be sharing a jigsaw every Saturday and Sunday during January on our Facebook Page.

Lockdown entertainment for book lovers!

Following a successful start in 2020, our free monthly online author chats ‘A Season of Reading’ are continuing in 2021.

Our recent event on 7^th January with psychological thriller author, Ben McPherson, attracted an audience of 102. Ben chatted about his novels A Line of Blood and The Island, about life as a Scot living in Norway and about the challenges and inspirations of creative writing. We will be releasing the recording of the event soon on the Book Chat group so if you missed the live event you’ll have another chance to catch it.

On 20^th January at 7,30pm we will be welcoming award-winning American author, Karen Raney, to talk about her novel All the Water in the World. Optioned for film by Monumental Pictures / Lionsgate, All the Water in the World is the defiant tale of 16-year-old Maddy. Smart, funny, and profound, she has loyal friends, a mother with whom she’s unusually close, a father she’s never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy is also dying of cancer. Told in the alternating voices of Maddy and her mother, Eve, this novel illuminates the transformative power of love, humour and hope as Maddy seeks out her first romantic relationship, tracks down her absent father and continually tests the limits of the relationship with her mother, while Eve has to come to terms with the daughter she only partly knows, in a world she can’t control.

On 3^rd February, Janet Skeslien Charles will be joining us from Paris to talk about her stunning novel The Paris Library. In 1983, Lily is a lonely teenager desperate to escape small-town Montana. She grows close to her neighbour Odile, discovering they share the same love of language, the same longings. But as Lily uncovers more about Odile's mysterious past, she discovers a dark secret, closely guarded and long hidden. Based on the true Second World War story of the librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is an unforgettable novel of heroism found in the quietest of places and the power of books as a source of hope and light in the darkest of times.

Paris and libraries – what’s not to love?!

As usual, to take part in either of these author events, just ask to join our free Book Chat group via Staffordshire Libraries’ Facebook page and look out for the links to the events being posted in the group.

All our Book Chat events are run on MSTeams which can be accessed by downloading the free app to your device from Google Play for Android or the App Store for IOS. You can also access the events by clicking on the provided link and choosing the option to take part through your internet browser.

Telephone Reading Friends

Staffordshire Library & Arts Service relaunched our Telephone Reading Friends programme again in November.

In libraries we appreciate what a difficult year it has been for many people but we’ve also seen the value attached to working with our communities to help people feel connected.  Telephone Reading Friends is available to support customers who are interested in books and reading but, for whatever reason, are finding it difficult to visit their local library at this moment in time.

Customers are matched with a member of library staff or a volunteer and telephone book chats take place once a week for a 4 week period.

The chats are entirely flexible in their content but will have books and reading at their core.

If you are interested in this service please email: reading.friends@staffordshire.gov.uk

Please pass on the word about this offer for anyone you think might benefit!

Have you tried our eLibrary yet?!

Join Staffordshire Libraries and get FREE access to a vast range of eBooks from Borrowbox and eMagazines & eComics from RBDigital.

There is plenty to chose from for all ages and tastes in reading, why not give it a go?

You can download these onto your tablet, smart phone or many other devices.

Please visit our eLibrary for more information or to start borrowing!

Facebook Groups

We have Facebook groups for all kinds of interests. It's easy to join and you can interact with people online with no formal commitment and absolutely free!

Book Chat Group

Love books, missing your reading group, why not chat online with like-minded people in our Facebook Book Chat Group?

Find us here

Staffordshire Scribblers

A group for those who enjoy creative writing, poetry and want to talk about writing!

Find us here

Digital Skills: Help and Advice

We have teamed up with our friends at Staffordshire Community Learning to bring you a group where you can discuss and raise questions around digital skills.

Receive help and advice from Community Learning IT tutors, read about new courses and the latest digital news.

Find out about online Library resources, activities and events.

Just request to join the group here

Wellness Group

Interested in health and wellbeing?

Join our Wellness Group to discover how Staffordshire Libraries and our community partners can help support your health and wellbeing

Find us here 

Quiz Time

We know how much you all love a quiz so why not have a try at our 'All the 21’s Quiz'   

We're celebrating the start of the New Year with everything to do with the number 21!

Ancestry Library Edition - still available to access at home during lockdown!

Staffordshire Library members can still access Ancestry Library Edition at home, thanks to Proquest and Ancestry UK, until the end of March 2021 so you can really get stuck into your family history now!

To access the site you need to log in to your Library account here https://www.yourlibcat.staffordshire.gov.uk/web/arena/user-pages

You then need to make sure you are in the ‘Account’ section and scroll to the bottom of the page and follow the link where it says ‘Access Ancestry Online’.

We hope you will enjoy this temporary access to the site.

You will need your Library card number and PIN. If you are not a Staffordshire Library member, it is quick and easy to join here

We've got a handy Ancestry Guide to get you started.

Beautifully painted Foundation Stones at Lichfield Library. These and many others created by members of the public as part of the Foundation Stones project will become part of the new UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in London.

To find out more or to get involved visit this link

Have you visited the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography yet? It's FREE to access from home with your Library card number. 

ODNB contains over 60,000 biographies, 72 million words, 11,000 portraits of significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history.

Each day we share a famous person from British history on our Facebook and Twitter page, look out for them, follow the link and learn more!

This time we are highlighting Sir William Birkett, who was a judge at the Nuremburg War Trials following the Second World War.

Start searching by following the ODNB link on our Online Resources page.

We have a collection of titles related to the Holocaust in our Borrowbox eLibrary or you could request titles via our Order and Collect Service.