20 Stamford New Road
Altrincham
WA14 1EJ

Email: altrincham.library@trafford.gov.uk
Telephone: 0161 912 5920

• Lift to first floor library
• Toilet for disabled users on ground floor
• People's Network PC accessible for wheelchair users
• CCTV reader

For more detailed information about the accessibility of Altrincham Library, please visit the DisabledGo website.

Altrincham Library has two new self-service machines which you will find easy to use. You can use the machines to:

• Take out items
• Return items
• Renew items
• Pay library charges
• Look at your borrower account

The Self-service machines have a touch screen and clear instructions on each screen. Staff will be available to provide any help needed with using the machines.

• Readers' Group - Evening group meets on one Wednesday a month at 7pm. Morning Readers' Group meets on 1st Tuesday of the month at 11am. Please contact the library for dates and further information
• Chatterbooks reading group for children aged 8 to 11 years - third Thursday of the month, 4pm to 5pm
• Coffee morning - last Tuesday of the month
• Displays
• Rhymetime for under 5s every Friday at 2pm
• Storytime every Thursday at 11am
• Connexions - every Wednesday 1 - 4pm
• Welfare Rights - every Thursday 10 - 1pm
• Trafford Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Service - third Wednesday of the month 12noon - 2pm
• Film Appreciation Course meets one Wednesday a month at 7pm. Contact the library for dates and further information.

• Environmental services
• Housing Benefit and Council Tax
• Highways/traffic enquiries
• Street lighting/cleaning
• Disabled Parking Permits - Blue Car Badges
• Pest control
• Waste disposal/recycling

• Free reservations for any item in stock or on order at any Trafford library
• Online library catalogue
• Newspapers and magazines
• Community information
• Computer facilities, including access to the Internet, are available to library members via People's Network PCs
• Printing and scanning facilities
• Black and white and colour photocopying, fax and laminating
• Regular activities for all ages
• Community learning events
• A range of adaptive equipment for customers with disabilities - please ask staff for details
• A Library shop offering quality goods at affordable prices, including stationery, books, greeting cards and gift-wrap, educational wallcharts and workbooks and Readyspex reading glasses
• Sales of withdrawn stock

Altrincham Library has the following items available for loan:

For Adults:

• Hardback and paperback fiction, including bestsellers and contemporary novels
• Non-fiction books ranging from popular interest topics to more academic subjects, in some cases up to AS and A level
• Main reference library for Trafford
• Large print books
• DVDs; Talking Books on cassette and CD; Playaway digital (MP3) audio books; music CDs; foreign language tapes and CDs

For 14+:

• A wide range of material chosen to appeal to this age group

For Children:

• Stories for all ages from the youngest up to 13+
• Junior non-fiction
• DVDs, Talking Books

Items which are not in stock at Altrincham Library but are available from another Trafford library can be requested free of charge.