Hale Library
Leigh Road
Hale
WA15 9BG

Email: hale.library@trafford.gov.uk
Telephone: 0161 912 5966

• All services on ground level with automatic door entry
• People's Network PC accessible for wheelchair users
• Loop system in meeting room
• Toilets for disabled users
• Three disabled parking spaces available

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

Hale 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 touch screens and clear instructions on each screen. Staff will be available to provide any help needed with using the machines.

• Storytime for under 5s is every Tuesday at 2pm
• Rhymetime - Every Tuesday and Friday, 10:15-10:45am; sessions are free and open to all under 5's but places are limited
• A Readers' Group meets every month
• A Writers' Circle meets on the last Tuesday of the month at 7pm to support aspiring and published authors.

• Environmental services
• Highways/traffic enquiries
• Housing Benefit and Council Tax document verification
• 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
• Reference and 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, Readyspex reading glasses and CD-ROMs
• Sales of withdrawn stock
• Exhibition area and meeting room for hire
• Young adult area providing study areas and stock relevant to 13-18 year olds

Hale 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
• Large print books
• DVDs; Talking Books on cassette and CD; Playaway digital (MP3) audio books; music CDs; foreign language tapes and CDs.
• Blu-ray DVD

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 Hale Library but are available from another Trafford library can be requested free of charge.