Enquiries, access and opening times
Barbican
Mobile Library
Shoe Lane
City Business Library
Guildhall Library
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New textphone number
The City of London’s libraries textphone service is
designed to make it easier for deaf or hearing impaired individuals
to contact us.
Provided they have a textphone, callers are able to communicate
clearly with our staff by typing what they want to say and
receiving a reply on the screen of their textphone. To contact any
of our libraries dial 020 7332 3803.
24 hour renewals (touch tone phones only) 020 7638
0568
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this to send us suggestions for improving our service.
Barbican Library
Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
General enquiries tel 020 7638 0569
Enquiries to Music Library - tel 020 7638 0672
Enquiries to Children's Library - tel 020 7628 9447
Fax 020 7638 2249
Textphone 020 7332 3803
Email
barbicanlib@cityoflondon.gov.uk
Map showing the location of Barbican
Library
Barbican Library webpage
The library is fully accessible by wheelchair and a variety of
access facilities including hearing induction loops, a reading
magnifier machine and enhanced computer screen viewing and
listening facilities are available.
For information on disabled access to the
Barbican Library visit Disabled Go.
Opening hours
Monday, Wednesday - 9.30am - 5.30pm
Tuesday, Thursday - 9.30am - 7.30pm
Friday: 9.30am - 2pm
Saturday: 9.30am - 4pm
The out of hours returns unit is situated just outside the
library. You will need to know your borrower number to use this
facility.
Getting there
Nearest tube stations are Barbican, Moorgate, Liverpool Street
and St Paul's (not wheelchair accessible). Bank station has lift
access from Docklands Light Railway to street level only.
Rail stations are Farringdon, Barbican and Moorgate (not wheelchair
accessible). Liverpool Street is accessible. Bus routes 8, 11,
26, 35, 42, 47, 48, 55, 56, 76, 78, 100, 133, 141, 214, 242, 271
(seven days a week), 243 (Monday - Saturday), 21, 23, 25, 172, 501,
505, 521 (Monday - Friday).
More information on the accessibility of tube stations and buses
is available on the
Tube website and the
Transport for London site.
Mobile Library
Opening hours and locations:
Due to essential maintenance, the mobile library service will
not be available from Tuesday 17 January to Wednesday 25 January
2012. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience
caused.
- Monday 10am - 4pm at Devonshire Square
- Tuesday 10am - 4.30pm at Little Somerset Street
- Wednesday 10am - 4pm at Stoney Lane
- Thursday 10am - 4pm at America Square
- Friday 10am - 4pm at Devonshire Square
Shoe Lane
Hill House, Little New Street, London EC4A 3JR
Tel 020 7583 7178
Textphone 020 7332 3803
24 hour renewals (touch tone phones only) 020 7638
0568
Email
shoelane@cityoflondon.gov.uk
Map showing the location of Shoe Lane
Library
Shoe Lane Library webpage
The library is fully accessible for people with
disabilities.
Opening hours
Monday, Wednesday to Friday 9am - 5.30pm
Tuesday 9am - 6.30pm
For information on disabled access to
the Shoe Lane Library visit Disabled Go.
City Business
Library
Contact details: 020 7332 1812;
cbl@cityoflondon.gov.uk
City Business Library, Aldermanbury, London EC2V 7HH
Map showing the location of
CBL (535kb)
City Business Library webpage
The library has an internal stair lift and a wheelchair
accessible toilet.
Focus Research in the City
Tel 020 7600 1461
focus@cityoflondon.gov.uk
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5pm
Closed Bank Holidays
Guildhall Library
Aldermanbury, EC2V 7HH
Map showing the location of Guildhall
Library
Guildhall Library webpage
The library has an internal stair lift and a wheelchair
accessible toilet.
Tel 020 7332 1868 / 020 7332 1870
Textphone 020 7332 3803
Email
guildhall.library@cityoflondon.gov.uk
Opening hours
Monday to Saturday 9.30am to 5pm
Items from the Store cannot be retrieved between 12 noon and
2pm on Saturdays.
Closed Bank Holiday weekends including Saturdays
Getting there
Bus routes 242, 25, 8 and 501 (to Cheapside), 11,15, 23 and 26
(to Queen Victoria Street),
43, 76, 133, 141, 214, 271 (to Moorgate), 172 (to London Wall).
Nearest tube stations are Bank, St Paul's, Mansion House (Bow Lane
exit), and Moorgate. Rail stations are Farringdon, Barbican and
Moorgate (not wheelchair accessible). Liverpool Street station is
wheelchair accessible.
For blue/orange badge holders there are
parking bays in Basinghall Street, Gresham Street and
Aldermanbury.
For information on disabled access to the
Guildhall Library visit Disabled Go.
Manuscripts
Following the reorganisation of Guildhall Library, most of the
archive and manuscript collections and archive services for the
City of London are now concentrated at London Metropolitan Archives
(LMA) in Clerkenwell, a mile north east of Guildhall Library. At
LMA there is the full range of consultation facilities,
conservation support, reprographics services and spacious areas for
research and study. We anticipate that the vast majority of
archives will now be consulted at LMA
Access to original and microfilmed records will be through the
reading rooms at London Metropolitan Archives (at least two working
days advance notice will be required for original document orders).
Our distance enquiry service will continue as normal; please email
manuscripts.guildhall@cityoflondon.gov.uk
or call 020 7332 1862/3 (your call will be automatically diverted
to London Metropolitan Archives).
Prints & maps
The Guildhall Library Print Room has now closed. The
collection has moved to London Metropolitan Archives (LMA), 40
Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB.
The telephone number for Prints, Maps and Drawings enquiries is
020 7332 3820 and the email address enquiries is
ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk