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Cowes Library

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Services available at this library:

  • Books
  • DVDs*
  • Talking Books on Cassette*
  • Talking Books on compact disc*
  • Large Print
  • Maritime Collection
  • Maritime Museum (click here for further details)
  • Computer facilities
    • Internet access*
    • Word processing
    • Scanning facilities
    • Printing*
  • Photocopying service*
  • Fax service*
  • Reference Collection
  • Local Studies Collection
  • Newspapers
  • Garden Refuse Sacks*
  • Bus Pass Applications
  • Teenage Area
  • Children’s Area
    • Homework collection
    • Children’s story time every Saturday 10.30 – 11.00 am
    • Baby rhyme time every Tuesday 11.00 – 11.30am

*Charges apply for these services. Please click here for further information.

To download our welcome leaflet, please click here.

New in!

Click the picture to see if the title is currently available.

DVDs

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Books

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and many more.

Click here to see the books added to Cowes Library in September 2008.


Events at Cowes Library


Free Internet Course – The West Wight Training Centre will be at Cowes Library on Tuesday 25th November, 12.30-4.30pm, offering free hourly Internet sessions, with one-to-one tuition. Booking is essential. To book a place call Carol, on 752175 ext. 33, or speak to a member of Library staff.

Toy Library – On Friday 14th November, The Toy Library will be at Cowes Library, from 10-11am. The Toy Library is a mobile service for the Island’s Under-Fives which lends toys to children to play with at home. For further details, click here.

Promotions at Cowes Library

Page to Screen – The finest novels translated into the finest celluloid productions. (Books that were made into films.) Part of the National Year of Reading 2008.

ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Season – Follow your favourite cops on the TV, then go deeper with the book.

Exhibitions

Posters

If you are able to display an event poster for us, please download the appropriate PDF below.

Toy Library – 390kb

Service Description: Children’s and adults’ books, large print books, videos, DVDs and talking books on tape, reference collection, newspapers, photocopying, fax service, free internet access, free computer access. Cowes Library is also the home to Cowes Maritime Museum and the Maritime Book Collection.

Contact Information
Department Cowes Library
Address Cowes Library
Beckford Road
Cowes
Isle of Wight
PO31 7SG
External Phone 01983 293341
Opening Times Monday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Tuesday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Wednesday 11.00am - 7.00pm
Thursday CLOSED
Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Saturday 9.30am - 4.30pm
Sunday CLOSED


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