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Oldham Libraries - Broadway Library

Broadway Library, Whitegate Lane, Chadderton, Oldham, OL9 8LS
Telephone: 0161 624 7866
E-mail: broadway.library@oldham.gov.uk

Opening Times

• Monday: 9.30am - 7.00 pm
• Tuesday: Closed
• Wednesday: 9.30 am - 5.00 pm
• Thursday: 1.00 pm - 7.00 pm
• Friday: 9.30 am - 5.00 pm
• Saturday: 9.30 am - 1.00 pm

Services available

• Books for adults and children
• Teenage books
• Talking books
• Urdu language books
• Videos
• Local & community information
• Telephone directories
• Newspapers
• Teenage magazines
• Study space
• Homework Collection
• Photocopying facilities
• Computers are available for public use with free Internet access (Please note that the computers will be shut down fifteen minutes before closing time). Please be aware that you need to save your work to a peripheral such as a floppy disk or USB memory key as each computer's hard drive is wiped every evening. Floppy disks are on sale at the counter. Once the computers have been wiped any data that has been saved to the computer is irretrievable.
• Children's activities
• Exhibitions and displays
• Local artists' display space
• Disabled toilet facilities
• Stamps for sale
• Publications for sale

Access

• Level access to main door.

Parking

• Free - next to the library

Contact

• Sandra Burgess, Community Librarian (0161 665 2225)
• Information in community languages: Naveed Aziz 0161 770 4644

Activities

• Coffee mornings
• Story time and craft activities during school holidays
• Computer classes (Lifelong Learning tutors)
• Basic computer classes (small groups)

Facts & Figures

• Broadway Library opens for 34 hours per week
• Stocks over 16,000 items
• Stocks over 850 videos
• Issued 59,063 books in 2003/2004
• Visitors: 50,537 in 2003/2004

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