Ickenham Library

Opening hours:

• Monday, Wednesday, Friday 0930-1730
• Tuesday, Thursday 0930-1900
• Saturday 0900-1600

What's new?

• Longer opening hours.
• New IT suite with more public PCs: 4 new PCs and 4 'Express' Apple Macs. 
• Improved access: including lift, ramped access and accessible toilet.
• New look children's library:  1 new child-friendly PC
• New conservatory/meeting room

Where is everything?

• Ground floor: Fiction, non-fiction, large print and talking books and Playaways, DVDs, Reference, study tables, catalogue PC, scanner and fully accessible PC. Also children's library and new conservatory/meeting room.
• First floor: Public PCs, Apple iMacs, study tables, easy chairs and coffee table.
   

Services

• Free use of computers 
  for Internet, email, MS Office, scanning, CD-Writer facilities, printing facilities –   7 PCs and 4 Apple iMACS for 'express' use by library members
• Free IT Taster Sessions 
  friendly one-to-one sessions to help you learn how to use a computer
• Ancestry taster sessions – one-to-one sessions to help you discover your family history
• Assisted Facilities available in all libraries 
  including fully accessible PCs - Supernova (screen reader & magnifier) software, large screen, easy-to-use keyboard, roller-ball mouse
• Online Reference Library 
  Try our Online Reference Library (includes Britannica, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford English Dictionary, Newspaper and Journal databases, Times Digital Archives, Safari e-Books and much more)
• A quick reference section
• Photocopying facilities
• Newspapers / magazines
• Study area

Books, talking books, DVDs, promotions

• Fiction books
  arranged in collections of Romance, Crime, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Westerns and General Novels
• Non-Fiction books
  arranged in subject categories
• Large Print Books
• DVDs
• Local studies, archives and museum service collection (main collection based at Central Library, Uxbridge)
• Reading groups
• Craft and Coffee club held Mondays 9:30am-12 
• Murder in the Books reading group held 3rd Thursday in the month 2-3pm
• Chess boards available
• Monthly Silver Surfers' Club held last Tuesday of the month 10-11.30 am
• Monthly Coffee Morning held 3rd Tuesday 10-11.30 am from 15 June onwards

For children

• Storybooks and information books suitable for ages 0-13
• Story CDs and Playaways
• Child-friendly PC with e-Information resources; great for homework help
• Children's DVDs 
• Storytimes: crafts and stories now every Wednesday 2-2:30pm (term time only)  

 Access and assisted facilities

	There is ramped access suitable for wheelchairs.		Automatic entrance doors.
	Registered assistance dogs are welcome.		The library is on two levels and has a wheelchair lift for access to the new IT suite.
	There is an accessible toilet facility available.		There is a public car park adjacent to the library with marked bays for disabled users.

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