Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

Help  | Site Index  | Site Map  | Printer Friendly Version  | Change Contrast

Oldham Libraries - Crompton Library

Crompton Library, Farrow Street East, Shaw, Oldham, OL2 8QY
Telephone: 01706 842184
Fax: 01706 842505
E-mail: crompton.library@oldham.gov.uk

Opening Times

• Monday: 9.30 am - 7.00 pm
• Tuesday: 9.30 am - 5.00 pm
• Wednesday: 9.30 am - 7.00 pm
• Thursday: 9.30 am - 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
• Books in Bangla and Urdu
• Music for loan (cassettes and CDs)
• Videos for loan
• Community information
• Local information
• Telephone directories
• Newspapers
• Teenage magazines
• Local history
• Photocopying facilities
• Fax facilities
• Computers 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 activities
• Storytime in school holidays
• Exhibitions and displays
• Study space
• Local artists' display space
• Disabled toilet available
• Homework Collections

Access

• Level access

Parking

• Free street parking next to the library.

Contact

• Gail Holden 01706 842184
• Information in community languages: Naveed Aziz 0161 770 4644

Facts & Figures

• Crompton Library opens for 47 hours per week
• Stocks over 36,000 items
• Stocks over 2300 music items and 840 videos
• Visitors 179,317 in 2003/2004
• Issued 200,514 books in 2003/2004
• Crompton Local History society meets 4th Wednesday in Month at 7:30pm

Libraries:

Search

Advanced Search