Manor Farm Library, Ruislip

What's new?

• Manor Farm library now open on market Sundays: To coincide with the Duck Pond and farmers' market, the library will be open 10.30am  - 3.00pm on the following Sundays

     16 May, 6 June, 20 June, 4 July, 18 July, 1 August, 15 August, 5 September,

     19 September 

• Longer opening hours: 9am-8pm Monday-Thursday, 9am-5.30pm Fridays, and 9am-5pm on Saturdays.
• More public PCs: 14 PCs including a scanner PC and fully accessible PC; 6 'Express' Apple Macs. 
• Improved access: including lift and wheelchair lift, ramped access and accessible toilet.
• New look children's library: two new child-friendly PCs.
• Books in Polish: Manor Farm Library now has non-fiction books in Polish. This section will keep growing and will include fiction titles. Look in the Community and World Languages section.

Where to look for your items

Ground floor: fiction, large print and talking books, DVDs, CDs, popular non-fiction, Reference, study tables, catalogue PC and fully accessible PC.

First floor: non-fiction, public PCs and a scanner PC, Apple iMacs, study tables, newspapers and magazines.

Lower Ground: children's fiction and non-fiction, DVDs and talking books, child-friendly PCs.

Services

• Free use of computers 
  for Internet, email, MS Office, scanning, CD-Writer facilities - 16 PCs and 6 Apple iMACS for 'express' use.
• Free IT taster sessions
  friendly one-to-one taster sessions to help you learn how to use a computer
• Assisted Facilities available in all libraries
  including fully accessible PCs - Supernova (screen reader & magnifier) software, large screen, easy-to-use keyboard, roller-ball mouse
• e-Information resources
  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 and promotions

• Fiction books arranged in collections of romance, crime, science fiction & fantasy, westerns and general fiction.
• Non-fiction books arranged in subject categories
• Large print & talking books, including the new Playaway format
• DVDs
• Fiction & non-fiction books available in community languages (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Punjabi, Urdu) and ImaginAsian – Indic writers in English.
• Themed book promotions and What's Hot top five bestsellers
• Hillingdon Local Studies, Archives and Museum Service Collection (main collection based at Central Library, Uxbridge)

• Reading groups
• Creative Writing at Manor Farm - Wednesdays 7.30pm-9.30pm. Varied workshop sessions followed by feedback for members on work-in-progress. £3 per session - email Manor Farm library to request the latest programme, or just come along!  
• Literary appreciation - the group meets fortnightly on Tuesdays 2.00pm-3.30pm to discuss classic and contemporary novels in-depth. 
• Games afternoon - Scrabble, dominoes, draughts, chess, cards, whist and more! Every Thursday from 2.00pm

For children

• Storybooks and information books suitable for ages 0-13
• Story CDs and cassettes
• 2 child friendly PCs with e-Information resources; great for homework help
• Children's DVDs 
• Storytimes: songs, crafts and stories now every Monday including school holidays, 10.30am-11.30am.
• Accessibility and assisted facilities.
• There is ramped access suitable for wheelchairs.
• Registered assistance dogs are welcome.
• The main part of the library is on two levels and has a wheelchair lift for access to Reference, Local Studies, Technology, Science, GCSE guides, Management and Biographies.
• There is a lift suitable for wheelchairs for access to the upper and lower ground floors. Automatic entrance doors.
• There is a public car park within 100 metres with marked bays for disabled users.
• There is an accessible toilet facility available.