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Find out about changes to our services and Christmas opening times on our Festive information page. To find out when your bin will be collected over the festive period, visit Changes to County Durham bin collections at Christmas.

Due to maintenance, the following systems will be unavailable from 11.45am on Tuesday 24 December until 8.00am on Thursday 2 January: our online Council Tax, business rates and housing benefit services, and our welfare assistance form. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Loan periods and charges


You can borrow up to twelve books and two talking books for three weeks at a time.

To make life easier you can borrow and return them at any of our libraries in County Durham - they don't have to be returned to the library you got them from.

FormatChargeLoan period
BooksFree3 weeks
Spoken wordAdult titles - £1.50
Children's titles - free
3 weeks
CDsFree3 weeks
DVDs55p1 week
Language courses£13.503 months

Fees and charges may apply for late, non-return or damaged items.

We offer lots of additional services such as:

  • photocopying
  • colour printing
  • reproduction of photographs
  • scanning
  • laminating
  • binding

Fees and charges

See Library fees and charges for our latest fees and charges.



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