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
- Reading ideas
- Book Groups
Facilities
- Printing and photocopying
- Scanner
- Computers and Wi-Fi
- Battery recycling
- Bookable gallery space
- Book Rest Café (Monday to Friday 9.30am to 3pm)
- Room and space hire
- Sensory wall
- Changing Places facility
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
Scribbles Writing Group, Colchester Library
Scribbles Writing Group, Colchester Library
For aspiring writers
Feel Better With a Book, Colchester Library
Feel Better With a Book, Colchester Library
A read aloud book group with short stories and poems.
Daddy Cool, Colchester Library
Daddy Cool, Colchester Library
Stories, songs and rhymes for dads and their babies or toddlers.
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