If you are 18 or older:

If you need an item straight away you can register online here. This will provide a temporary membership and PIN to enable you to browse the catalogue, conduct online research or download an electronic item.

For permanent membership you must visit the library with identification where you will be given a membership card and PIN which enables you to use the full range of services in any Buckinghamshire County Council affiliated library.

If your are under 18 years old:

Please complete this form and follow the instructions.

No you don’t need to login to search the Library Catalogue. You will however need to identify yourself if you want to place a reservation, booking, request or add a review to items as you browse through your result sets. If you login before searching the Library Catalogue, Spydus will remember your details for the duration of your login session and you will not need to enter your details again to use these services. If you are not logged in, you will need to identify yourself for each transaction.

The Library Catalogue contains information which describes items held in our local collection. This collection includes books, games, DVDs, CDs, magazines, and audiobooks.

In order to place a reservation, you first need to perform a search using the Library Catalogue. As you browse through the records retrieved by your search, you can place a reservation for individual titles or for a set of titles. Please refer to the section on placing reservations in the How To help page for details.

Yes you can. Please refer to the section on renewing loans in the Using My Library help page for details.

As you browse through the records in your result set after performing a search in the Library Catalogue, you will notice that some records are displayed with a number of stars. This indicates that one or more reviews have been attached to the record displayed. The number of stars displayed is an average of the ratings given to this record by the reviewers. Ratings are given as a number between 0 (very bad) and 10 (very good).

Do the following to add your review to a record:

1. Retrieve the record you want to add your review to and display in full display.
2. Click on the link to Add your review. This will display a form for you to complete.
3. Enter your borrower ID and PIN if you are not already logged in.
4. Select the rating you would like to assign with 0 being very bad and 10 being very good.
5. Enter your comments. You can enter as much text as you like. Press Enter to start a new paragraph.
6. Select the Add Comment button to submit your review. Your comments will be reviewed by library staff before being made available for general access to others.

You can also amend and delete existing reviews by accessing these records in My Library. Please refer to the section on ratings and comments in the Using My Library help page for details.

An alert profile allows you to create a profile that matches your preferences for materials you would like to use. These profiles are scanned as part of the library’s overnight housekeeping and any new works that meet the profile’s criteria are added to the “profile set” for the particular profile. If any new works are added to your profile set as part of the nightly scan, you will be sent an email containing brief bibliographic details for each work, as well as a hyperlink to the work. When you receive this email, you can click on the hyperlink to go directly to the work and place a reservation against it if you wish.

Please refer to the Alert Profiles help page for information on how to create and update your alert profiles.

Your savedlist will normally be kept on the system for one day. It will be automatically cleared after this time.

Please refer to the My SavedList help page for more information on how to use this facility.

If you have forgotten your PIN and we have a record of your email address, we can send you an email containing your current PIN. Please complete the details here and we’ll send you an email with a link to reset your PIN.

If you any other questions on any topic, we’ll do our best to find the answer for you. You can contact us by phone or email using the details here.

Details of our charges can be found online.