Library app and social media sites
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Our Libraries and Archives Service is updating its online pages and loans service. Find out how this will affect you.
Mobile app for libraries
Access the library anytime, anywhere. Using our new mobile app, LiDa app, you can:
- have easy access to your library account
- search and renew items online
- place and manage reservations
- view events happening at your local library
- view payments
- access our range of ebooks and other eresources
- book a computer
- scan a book's ISBN barcode anywhere to check whether it is in stock at your library
Borrow and return library items on our app
Our app has a brand new feature - you can now borrow and return library items on our library app on your smartphone. Download the free LiDa app from the App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android.
Social media
Find out more about our libraries, including treasures from our fashion and folklore special collections, news from our reading groups, library events, general musings, and much more.
Follow our library blog
Visit our blog homepage, and subscribe to receive regular email updates.
Biography Central podcast
Our library podcast, Biography Central (formerly BioEpic) invites you to join us deep in the basement of Kensington Central Library, amongst the shelves of our biographies collection This is an unique collection of biographical books spanning 200 years of publishing, awaiting your perusal.
In each episode we focus on a particular biography and learn about a fascinating person and their impact on our world. Library staff from Kensington Central Library and regular guests will whet your appetite to learn more about a range of individuals from all walks of life. Join us every month, and catch up on all our previous episodes.
Biography Central is available on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts and Radio Public and wherever you get your podcasts. Listen and Subscribe today!
Like our RBKC Libraries Facebook page and have your say about your local library.
We love taking photos and sharing them, follow us at RBKC Libraries Instagram
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YouTube
We now have our own YouTube channel. We regularly upload videos for children - baby rhyme times, stories and crafts. There are also videos for adults too with author talks and more. Subscribe today.
Local Studies blog
‘The Library Time Machine’, created and written by retired Local Studies and Archives Librarian, Dave Walker.
Our blog gives glimpses into the past lives and history of Kensington and Chelsea The Library Time Machine.
Last updated: 24 April 2025