Old Trafford Library
Shrewsbury Street
Old Trafford
M16 9AX

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

• 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.

• 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

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.

• Environmental services
• Highways/traffic enquiries
• Housing Benefit and Council Tax
• 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 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

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.