At present Wokingham Borough Council has taken the difficult decision to temporarily close all of its libraries.
A large number of online library services are still available, including ebooks, enewspapers and audiobooks. While the libraries are closed we have suspended the fines so there is no need to renew or return your books. Please look after the books, until such time as the libraries reopen, then you will be able to return them
New Digital Services
Sign up for free library membership by visiting the Spydus website to join our libraries online.
Freegal Music – Access 15 million songs from thousands of artists. You can download 3 songs per week, and listen to streamed content for up to 3 hours per day. Login to Freegal Music with your barcode and PIN, or download the Freegal Music app from the App Store or Google Play Store, then select your library and log in with your barcode and PIN. Please note: Some of the titles may contain content of a more adult nature. As with all library usage we recommend parents and carers give their child support in choosing appropriate items to match their needs.
Ancestry Online website – is a family history website with access to census records, births, marriages and deaths records, and much more. Available at Wokingham, Woodley and Lower Earley libraries. Access to this resource has been temporarily expanded to library cardholders working remotely, courtesy of ProQuest and its partner Ancestry. To log in from home, visit the Spydus website
VE Day Celebrations
Join us for our virtual Library VE Day celebrations to mark this important anniversary. Check out our libraries blog at https://wokinghamboroughlibraries.wordpress.com/ for VE Day activities which will include:
A look at how Wokingham celebrated VE Day with an article put together by our local history volunteer Jim Bell
Recommended books from our digital library about WW2 and how it ended
A play list of contemporaneous music available on our free music streaming service Freegal
A “Bake along” with wartime recipes. One of our members of staff will be baking the cakes and posting pictures of the results on our blog
Amazing Animal Adventures with book ideas and activities about animal heroes during the wars.
Links to virtual activities taking place nationally
Check out the NHS Every Mind Matters website. It has some useful tips for mental wellbeing while staying at home. There’s a host of advice, support and tools to use. Just visit: http://ow.ly/4dBb30qsCNl
E-Services – Did you know you can borrow a range of e-books, e-audio, e-comics newspapers and magazines completely free of charge if you are a library member? Just go to https://www.wokingham.gov.uk/libraries/library-services/e-books/ or download the RB Digital app and use your library card number to create a free account with a username and password.
E-books
Read books on your home computer, smartphone or tablet
Borrow 6 books at a time for up to 21 days
Choose from over 2000 books, with new titles added every month
E-audio
Listen to audio books on your phone, MP3 player, iPod or computer
Choose from over 1000 books, with new titles added every month
No limit on the number of titles you can borrow
E-Comics
Read graphic novels on your home computer, smartphone or tablet
Choose from over 1000 titles, including Marvel Comic titles, which can be borrowed for 30 days
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