Telephone:
Barbican Libraries
Mon and Wed 9.30am-5.30pm. Tue and Thu 9.30am-7.30pm. Fri 9.30am-2pm. Sat 9.30am-4pm.
Description
The Barbican Library is the City of London's leading public lending library with books, Spoken Word recordings, DVDs, CDs and scores available for loan.
Our particular strengths are in music (including listening facilities and a practice piano), arts, children's and financial sections as well as Internet access and self-service photocopying.
We are fully accessible by wheelchair and have a variety of access facilities including hearing induction loops, a reading magnifier machine and enhanced computer screen viewing and listening facilities.
Contact
Address
Barbican Libraries
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
Notes
24hr renewals line: 020 7638 0568 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Barbicanlibrary
The Barbican Children’s Library holds over 25,000 items including:
- Fiction and non-fiction books for all ages
- Teenage fiction
- Board books,
- ABCs, counting and word puzzle books
- Picture books
- First readers
- Information books
- Folk and fairy tales
- Graphic novels
- E-books
- The Parents' Collection
We also offer a range of activities for parents/carers and their children including Storytime, Rhymetime, Bookstart, reading support and reading groups sessions.