Digital & Online Services

Access library services at a time that suits you. Services are available 24 hours a day. With our online library services you can:

Access your library account at your fingertips

Browse the catalogue, see which items you have on loan, renew library books and other items and reserve items online.

Access Spydus

Accessing your account

To see which items you have on loan, renew and reserve, you just need your library card number and four digit PIN. Please contact your local library if you have forgotten your PIN.

Digital Help Finder

Salford City Council also provide a free Digital Help Finder to help you get online, use the internet and improve your digital skills. Here you can find not only what is on offer in Salford Libraries, but across the entire city.

Borrowbox

Borrowbox

The UK’s number 1 digital library app is available for all Salford Library members.

Avid book fans can read or even listen to their favourite read, all for FREE! This innovative app offers users the chance to digitally borrow eBooks and eAudiobooks for limited periods. You can read or listen to a huge selection of titles from the world’s best authors.

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E-Library

We subscribe to a wide variety of online reference sources and you don’t even need to be in a library to use most of them.

All you need is your eight-digit library card number to login. These sites are accessible free of charge for Salford library members from any computer connected to the Internet. Ancestry.com is only free from library computers.

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