What are the library opening hours?

Answer

3 January - 8 June 2025

Maintenance closures can happen throughout the year, for more details please see our Library Alerts page.

❌🛠️ Due to planned maintenance work, the Franklin-Wilkins Library will close from 06.00 on Saturday 8 February and re-open at 18.00 on Sunday 9 February. All our other libraries will be open as usual during this time.
❌🛠️ Due to planned maintenance work, the New Hunt's House Library will close from 06.00 on Saturday 15 February and re-open at 18.00 on Sunday 16 February. All our other libraries will be open as usual during this time.

Staffed hours:
(This is when you can expect library staff to be in the library to help you.)

🕘 09.00 - 19.00 Monday to Friday
🕘 10.00 - 18.00 Saturday and Sunday

Exceptions:

IoPPN Library*: 🕘 09.00 - 17.00 Monday to Friday | (Closed on Weekends and Bank Holidays)

The Wills Library** and the St Thomas' House Library** do not have library staffed hours.
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Opening hours: (This is when you can enter the library if you have a valid KCL ID card. Visitors without a valid KCL ID card need to strictly keep to the Staffed hours.)
Campus	Library	Monday - Friday	Saturday - Sunday
Denmark Hill	IoPPN	09.00 - 01.00*	Closed
	Weston Education Centre (WEC)	24 / 7
Guy’s	New Hunt’s House	24 / 7
	Wills	24 / 7**
St Thomas	St Thomas’ House	24 / 7**
Strand	The Maughan*	24 / 7
	Special Collections	Monday - Friday, 10.00 - 13.00 and 14.00 - 17.00	Closed
	Archives	Tuesday - Thursday, 10.00 - 17.00	Closed
Waterloo	Franklin-Wilkins	24 / 7

* pronounced "Mawn" like lawn

24/7 Space

At the Weston Education Centre Library, computer rooms 1.49 - 1.52 (NHS PCs available in room 1.49) will be open 24/7 and will be accessible via the first-floor corridor of the building when the library is closed.