Welcome to Cork County Library and Arts Service
Welcome to Cork County Library and Arts Service
Cork County Library has 28 branches and six mobile libraries throughout the county. This library service provides the community with a comprehensive range of material for information, study and recreation. Ultimately user friendly, it is there to inform, entertain and educate.
The first Cork County Librarian was Michael O' Donovan, better known as Frank O' Connor, famous short story writer and novelist (2001 was the 75th anniversary of his appointment). The 20 small centres that O' Donovan had established in schools and villages around County Cork by May 1926 have expanded in the intervening years to a network of 28 branch libraries (of which eighteen are full-time, that is open for over 32 hours per week) and six mobile libraries.
Reference Services
The level of reference service provision in Cork County Library's network of branches and mobile libraries varies with the size of each service point. However, a basic range of reference resources (encyclopaedias and dictionaries) at a minimum is available in every branch. Each branch library and service point is supported by the staff and resources at our HQ Reference Department.
Cork County Library subscribes to several online reference resources, and these can be accessed by library members at all of our branch libraries.
