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Central Library
Providing quality library and information services.
Opening times:
Monday 9.00am to 8.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am to 8.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am to 8.00pm
Thursday 9.00am to 8.00pm
Friday 9.00am
to 8.00pm
Saturday 9.00am to 4.30pm
Sunday 12noon to 4.00pm
Access:
Level acess, automatic doors, lift to main library and upper level. All public areas are wheelchair accessible.
Map of the Location of the Central Library
Library News and events
Visit our Central Library events page for information about events and courses in the Central library.
Storytime
in Central Libraryevery Thursday from 2.30pm to 3.30pm |
Visit our Team Read Page for information on how to take part.
Library Lifts
The lifts in the entrance to the building are being replaced, one at a time from 30 June.
Local Studies Service
The service has now closed, the new History Centre will be offering a limited sevice from 1 September 2008. For more information visit our History Centre page.
Free ESOL course
for details please visit our ESOL courses page
Services offered:
- Books for loan free of charge
- A children's library with a collection of books to help with homework
- Story times every Saturday at 11.00am to 12.00noon (not from 26 July to 30 August)
- A wide variety of music on CD and tape for loan for a small charge
- Talking Books free to visually impaired people, under 16s
- DVDs for loan for a small charge
- Books in Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Punjabi, Spanish, Urdu and Vietnamese
- Language sets for learning a second language
- Book request service
- A local history collection on Coventry and Warwickshire
- Free access to 50 bookable computers with office software and internet access
- Information on computers courses
- Musical Talks, Readers groups and other events
- Readers Group on the last Thursday of each month at 2.30 to 4.00pm
- ALAP/OLAKUA group meets on the last Wednesday of each month at 6.30 to 7.30 pm
- Braille Courses for details
- Family Information Service
- Fax machine (small charge)
- Photocopier (small charge)
- Housebound reader service
- Newspapers and magazines in English, Bengali, Chinese, Gujurati, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu
Call 024 7683 2583 for booking computers and 024 7683 2314 for information on library events, story times and other information on the library service.
Contact Details:
Central LibrarySmithford Way
Coventry
CV1 1FY
e-mail: central.library@coventry.gov.uk
Telephone: 024 7683 2314
Fax: 024 7683 2440
Text Telephone: 024 7683 2395
Downloadable documents
Get in touch
Contact us quickly and easily using our online contact form.
Also in Central Library
- Big Book Bonanza
- Book sales in the Central library
- Braille Courses in the Central Library
- Business information service
- ESOL classes in the Central Library
- Events in Coventry Central Library
- Family History Websites
- Financial awareness Classes in Libraries 2008
- Gay Abandon
- Help with using library computers
- History Centre
- Library Hotspots
- Local studies library
- Musical talks
- Oxford Reference Online
- People's Network enquiry service
- RaW reading Group
- Rhymetime in the Central library
- Rick Riordan visits the central library
- Sales of books
- Special Needs Book Collection
