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Old Trafford Library
Shrewsbury Street
Old Trafford
M16 9AX

oldtrafford.library@trafford.gov.uk
0161 912 4650

About Old Trafford Library

Old Trafford Library
Shrewsbury Street
Old Trafford
M16 9AX

Email: oldtrafford.library@trafford.gov.uk
Telephone: 0161 912 4650

Opening times

Day Opening time
Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm

Accessibility

  • All services on ground level with automatic door entry
  • Disabled access parking available
  • People's Network PC accessible for wheelchair users
  • Loop system
  • Textlink (similar to a minicom)
  • Toilet for disabled users

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

What's on

  • Storytime every Monday at 10am
  • Women’s Aid - By appointments only
  • Old Trafford Multicultural Women’s Group – Wednesday 10 - 12am
  • Citizen Advice Bureau – Tuesday and Thursday 9am - 12.30pm (Drop in surgery)
  • Housing Benefit/Council tax Surgery for new claims (appointments only) –Tuesday
  • Sure Start children’s Activity Wednesday 1pm - 3pm
  • Children’s’ Story Time Every Monday 10am - 11am
  • Welfare Rights –Tuesday 1pm (appointments only)
  • Councillors drop in surgery 1st Saturday each month 11pm - 12pm
  • MP Surgery (By Appointment only)
  • Readers Group (Every Month)
  • Old Trafford Family Centre Surgery (Every Thursday 12.30 - 2pm
  • Community Police Surgery (Once every Month)
  • Credit Union Offices
  • Trafford Housing Trust Offices
  • Manchester and District Housing Association Offices

Self-service machine

Old Trafford Library has a new self-service machine which you will find easy to use. You can use the machine to:

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

The self-service machine has a touch screen and clear instructions on each screen. Staff will be available to provide any help needed with using it.

Council Services

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

Other services

  • 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 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, eductional wallcharts and workbooks, Readyspex reading glasses and CD-ROMs
  • Sales of withdrawn stock
  • Meeting room for hire

Stock available

Old Trafford Library has the following stock 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
  • Large print books
  • Talking Books on cassette and CD, foreign language tapes and CDs

For 14+

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

For Children

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

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