Opening hours
Public holidays
All libraries are closed on the following days:
- Bank Holidays
- Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day
- Good Friday and Easter Sunday
Location
Trinity Square
Colchester
CO1 1JB
Using the library
- Join
- Search the library catalogue
- Renew, reserve or return library items
- Charges, fines and exemptions
- e-books and e-audio
- Online resources
- Book Groups
- Covid-19 safety measures
Facilities and Services
- WiFi
- Computers
- Printing
- Scanner
- Photocopying
- Study space
- Bookstart packs
- Bookable gallery space
- Sensory wall
- Changing Places facility
- Accessible bathroom facilities
- Baby changing facilities
- Battery recycling
- ink Bin – for recycling empty home-use printer ink cartridges only
- Escalator
- Lift
Other Services
Contact us
Feedback about your library experience
Renewals and Library enquiries: 0345 603 7628
Email: colchester.library@essex.gov.uk
Social media: Facebook
What's on
Baby and Toddler Rhymetime, Colchester Library
Baby and Toddler Rhymetime, Colchester Library
Join us for rhymes and songs for the under 5's!
Baby and Toddler Rhymetime, Colchester Library
Baby and Toddler Rhymetime, Colchester Library
Join us for rhymes and songs for the under 5's!
40 Year Anniversary of the Falklands War, Colchester Library
40 Year Anniversary of the Falklands War, Colchester Library
Exhibition featuring items from the Imperial War Museum Duxford.
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