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.

Ebooks, eaudiobooks, emagazines, enewspapers and ecomics

As a library member you can borrow a huge range of ebooks, eaudiobooks, emagazines, enewspapers and ecomics available to download free of charge. All you need to access these is your library card and an internet connection.