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Stanground library

We are on Southfields Avenue opposite the parade shops.

Contact details

Opening hours

  • Monday 1.00pm to 5.00pm
  • Tuesday 10.00am to 5.30pm (closed 1.00pm to 2.00pm)
  • Wednesday Closed
  • Thursday 10.00am to 6.00pm (closed 1.00pm to 2.00pm)
  • Friday 1.00pm to 5.00pm
  • Saturday 10.00am to 2.00pm

Services

  • Free library membership
  • A range of books - fiction, non-fiction and reference
  • Picture and board books
  • Talking books on tape and CD
  • Free requests for all items from our catalogue
  • Renewal of books 24hrs per day by phone or Internet
  • Reading advice
  • 24/7 access to online information and resources newspapers, reference books, journals and encyclopedias
  • Access to Council information
  • Free use of PCs and access to the Internet*
  • Enquiry and information service
  • Local and community information

* If you do not have a PIN or have forgotten it, please see a member of library staff with your library card and a form of ID.

Facilities

  • A children's area
  • Copying and Fax
  • Adaptive Technology which allows access to computing for those with disabilities
  • Computers for public use

Regular activities and events

  • Storytime Thursdays 2.15pm to 2.45pm
  • Local councillors surgery, third Saturday in the month 10.30am to 11.30am
  • Homework club, every Friday 4.00pm to 5.00pm
  • Silver surfers for over 50s, every Thursday 10.00am to 11.30am
  • Reading group, first Tuesday of each month 3.30pm to 4.30pm
  • CodeX after school group

Class visits for schools

  • Please contact the Library to arrange

Events and activities for families, adults and children

  • Summer reading schemes
  • Holiday activities
  • Family Tree Taster Sessions

 

Many of Peterborough’s most popular cultural and sporting facilities are now part of something new. Vivacity.

Find out more about the new trust on the Vivacity website.