A NEW and improved website will be launched for City of York Council’s libraries later this week.

The website, which will include a new library catalogue, will benefit from faster navigation and new interactive services such as a mobile phone app and social media such as Twitter and Facebook.

Whilst the IT system improvements are being implemented, libraries across the city will be running a reduced service from today until Friday.

Customers can still borrow and return books as normal, and use the online catalogue to search for books, but they will not be able to place a request for a book to be ordered during the week.