Urmston Library
Unit 34
Golden Way
Urmston
M41 0NA

Email: urmston.library@trafford.gov.uk
Telephone: 0161 912 2727

• All services on first floor level. Lift and escalator available.
• People's Network PC accessible for wheelchair users
• Toilet for disabled users and baby change facilities
• Hearing loop system
• Secure parking in nearby car park
• Bus stop outside the library

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

Urmston 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.

Monday

• Knitting and Sewing group meets every Monday 1.30 - 3.30pm to learn new stitches, swap patterns and chat about knitting and sewing

Tuesday

• Chatterbooks - 1st Tuesday of each month for 7-10 year olds.
• Rhyme times ages 0-5 years, 1.30pm
• Macmillan information point on the second Tuesday of the month 11am - 1pm
• Trafford Disability Information Service 10am - 12 noon, Drop in session Information provided about anything to do with independent living/disability to disabled people - First Tuesday of every month commencing 3 August 2010

Wednesday

• Storytime for under 5s every Wednesday at 2.15pm
• Job Centre appointments each Wednesday 9am - 4.30pm

Thursday

• Two Readers' Group meet each month
• Welfare Rights sessions every Thursday afternoon - appointment only
• Housing Benefits Liaison sessions Thursday 1pm - 4.30pm
• Rhymetime 1.30pm for 0 - 5yrs

Councillor Procter

• Tuesday 4 October 2011, 6pm - 7pm
• Tuesday 8 November 2011, 6pm - 7pm
• Tuesday 6 December 2011, 6pm - 7pm

Councillor Turner

• Saturday 1 October 2011, 11am - 12noon
• Saturday 12 November 2011, 11am - 12noon
• Every second Thursday of each month 1.30pm - 2.30pm

• Environmental services
• Highways/traffic enquiries
• Housing benefit/Council tax service
• Street lighting/cleaning
• Disabled Parking 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
• Photo booth
• Black and white photocopying, fax, comb-binding and laminating
• Colour photocopying
• 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 books, greeting cards, educational wallcharts and workbooks, Readyspex reading glasses
• Sales of withdrawn stock
• Large exhibition space which can be divided into three separate rooms (bookings made through Community Lettings)

Urmston 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, CD and 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 and Talking Books

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