Coundon Library

Opening hours

All of our libraries are currently closed until further notice. Library members can still borrow a huge range of ebooks, eaudiobooks and emagazines available to download free of charge through our ebooks webpage. We are currently looking at how access to computers currently provided at libraries can be maintained. Fines accrued while they are shut will be waived. See our Libraries (changes to services) page for the latest information.

Services available at our library 

If you would like to browse our catalogue, request an item or renew an item already on loan, please visit Library Online. This facility also offers members of the library service access to a range of websites including Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Grove Music Online and Encyclopaedia Britannica Online.  

• books, including large print and picture books and audiobooks
• HealthZones
• information leaflets
• local publications
• public access computers with internet, word processing and other Office packages facilities.
• Wi-fi (free)
• colour photocopier
• colour printer
• scanner
• ancestry online
• study area

How to get there

Coundon Library is situated in the Eden Centre, alongside the GP surgery, dentist and SureStart. 

Buses from Bishop Auckland, Shildon, Spennymoor and Durham stop nearby.

Cycle parking facilities - there are currently none available at this library.