Everyone can use the library and most of our services are
free - you can join as a member, borrow books, reserve items
from our stock, search the Internet or find information, all
without charge. For more details see the sections below.
How to join - How
many items can I borrow?
Renewing your loans - Charges
- Reservations
No-one is too young or old to use the library, and there is no cost.
Just visit your nearest Reading Borough Library with two
official proofs of
identity. We will need to see one of the
following items showing your current address:
Driving licence, Medical card, Bank statement*, Building
Society book, Family Allowance book, Pension
book, Rent book, Council tax book, Tenancy agreement,
Gas bill*, Electricity bill*, Telephone bill*, Water
bill*, Credit card bill*, TV licence. (Items marked
with * must be no more than two months old)
and also one of the following items showing your
signature:
Credit card, Bank card, Store card, Passport.
If you are a student or other temporary
resident please ask staff for details.
If you live within Reading Borough, you will be
able to join as a Your Reading Passport member, which
gives you access to other facilities such as leisure
centres, and gives discounts on hire of audio-visual
items with Reading Libraries and offers in some
Reading shops. Please ask for more details.
Adults can borrow up to 20 books, ten videos or DVDs, and ten cassettes,
CDs or talking books.
Under 18s can borrow up to 20 books and 10
cassettes or CDs.
Most books, CDs and cassettes can be borrowed for 3 weeks at a time.
Videos and DVDs can be borrowed for a week at a time.
Avoid any overdue charges by making sure you renew
items before they are late back. You can do this in 3
ways:
Visit your local library
Bring your items to renew to any of our libraries
and ask a member of staff to renew them for you. You
can also renew items twice without bringing them in -
just show your library card to staff who will do this
for you. We will need to see the items if you wish to
renew them a third time.
Ring the library
Call us on 0118 901 5950, with details of your
library card and what you wish to renew. You can ring
us twice to do this. We will need to see the items if
you wish to renew them a third time.
Renew online
Go to the library catalogue and click on Renew
Items. You will need to know your library barcode
and 4 digit PIN number for this. Please ask staff if
you do not know your PIN number. You can login twice
to do this. We will need to see the items if you wish
to renew them a third time. You will not be able to
renew stock online if it is overdue or if you owe more
than £5 in charges. Unfortunately, only books can be
renewed online. For all audio-visual items (e.g.
videos) please either telephone us or come into one of
our libraries to renew.
Stock cannot be renewed by any of these ways if
another customer has requested it.
A full list of current charges can be found here
If you can't find the book you need, please ask for help. For a small
non-refundable charge books which we do not stock can be
requested from other libraries via interlibrary loan. Reservations for
items in stock in our libraries are FREE.
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