Membership criteria
Anyone can join a City of London Lending Library. All you
need to do is provide current proof of your name and home
address.
Borrowers may enroll their children as members. Arrangements can
sometimes be made for visitors to the City to join.
If you already have a membership card for one of the City's
lending libraries you do not need to join again to use the other
two. Your membership card is valid at all three.
Please
follow the link to the libraries membership form
Change of address
If you work in the City and change your business address or live
in the City and change your home address please
enter your new address online.
Borrowing
Adults
Up to 12 books (plus eight children's books), maps, spoken-word
recordings plus
Up to 12 music sound recordings
Up to four videos
Up to six DVDs
Up to two CD-Roms
One Linguaphone set
Children
Up to eight books or spoken-word recordings on their own
tickets
A charge is made for music sound recordings, DVDs and
videos.
If the book or music sound recording you want is already on loan it
can be reserved for you for a small charge. Many books and music
recordings which are not in stock can also be borrowed from other
libraries in the UK and abroad.
Reservations are only accepted for videos and DVDs which are
already in stock.
Length of loan
Loans are for three weeks at a time, except for videos and music
CD's which must be returned within one week. Please remember that
fines are charged on items which are returned late. It is sometimes
possible to borrow items for an extra week if you are going away on
holiday.
If you want to keep items longer than normal, you may also do so
provided no one else is waiting for them, either by bringing them
back to the library and borrowing them again or by renewing them by
post, telephone or email. If you need an item for a sixth loan
period, you must bring it in to the library to have it issued. You
will be charged another loan fee for each music sound recording and
video you renew.
24 hour renewals - (touch tone phones only) 020 7638
0568
To renew items on loan Click on
My Account and enter your Borrower Number
Reference libraries
Membership is not required for any of the reference libraries,
however readers wanting to consult certain categories of stock are
asked for proof of identity and address.