Libraries

Refurbishment - WorkmenImportant notice

Chelsea Library will be closed due to essential building maintenance work on Sunday 5 February 2012.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

To find out more, please ask a member of staff or call 020 7361 3010.

 

Celebrate National Libraries Day on Saturday 4 February 2012

What is your favourite library memory? 

Tell us about it by:

  • writing on our memory wall – there is one in your local library now
  • email us at: libSAD@rbkc.gov.uk
  • tweet: our library twitter account is @RBKClibraries and #memorywall
  • tell us on our Facebook page: RBKC Library

We will be collating all your wonderful memories and posting them on the RBKC Library website.

  • Also; please watch our YouTube video below, celebrating National Libraries Day.

Upcoming events

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Read about upcoming events held during January to March 2012 for adults, young people and children, at Kensington and Chelsea library.

  • Bloomsbury Season with authors: Anna Reid, Stephen Kelman, Romesh Gunesekera and Justin Cartwright
  • Authors from other publishers to include Richard Hamilton and Mary Harper and Lady Antonia Fraser.
  • Also lots of other events for children, young people and families

Service improvements coming soon to the Central LibraryCentral Reference Library

Work will soon be getting underway to give our customers a better library service in a new welcoming environment.

Improvements include:
  • self-service technology for faster and easier use
  • increased and improved computer facilities 
  • new and improved book stock
  • a revamped Local Studies area
  • a new young people’s zone on the ground floor

To find out more information visit our Service Improvement page.

Joined up library services from three boroughs

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In June 2011 the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City Councils agreed the Tri-borough proposal to create an integrated libraries and archives service.  This is about maintaining and improving libraries whilst making savings by organising the management and administration of the service across a wider geographic area.

Library information

Chelsea

  • Library Strategy [PDF] (file size 434Kb) - paper copies of the strategy are available in our libraries.

Computers & ICT

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Using your library

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