They will offer:

• Browsing and borrowing items;
• Click-and-collect, allowing customers to return items, collect ready-reads and reserve books;
• Use of public PCs and printing at relevant spots;
• Online book reservations and pick-up from the nearest open library; and
• The library direct home service for the vulnerable.

Customers can also access more than 30,000 ebooks, eaudio, emagazines and ecomics online and join in creative and interactive events, including Christmas themed, via Facebook. New library members can register at free online to access all digital resources.

Extensive Covid-19 safety measures include rigorous cleaning, with hand sanitiser at library entrances, limited numbers of customers allowed in at any one time, and quarantining of returned items.

To minimise queues, visitors are encouraged to go be on their own and limit their visit to 30 minutes. Visitors must follow safety precautions including masks inside the building and are asked to comply with test and trace requirements.

Borrowed items are not due back until branches are open again but click-and-collect libraries are accepting returns when collecting items or via the “out of hours” return box.

Addlestone, Cranleigh and Frimley Green, as well as some community-partnered libraries will remain closed until further notice but continue to offer click-and-collect.

Before visiting and for more information, please check the library website.