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The John Rylands Library

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The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library
Phone:
+44 161 306 0555

Hours:
Sunday12pm - 5pm
Monday12pm - 5pm
Tuesday10am - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


The University of Manchester Library is The University of Manchester's library and information service. The main library is on the Oxford Road campus of the University with its entrance on Burlington Street. There are also twelve other library sites, ten spread out across the University's campus, plus The John Rylands Library on Deansgate and the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre situated inside Manchester Central Library. In 1851 the library of Owens College was established at Cobden House on Quay Street, Manchester. This later became the Manchester University Library in 1904. In July 1972 this library merged with the John Rylands Library to become the John Rylands University Library of Manchester .On 1 October 2004 the library of the Victoria University of Manchester merged with the Joule Library of UMIST forming the John Rylands University Library . The Joule Library was the successor of the library of the Manchester Mechanics' Institute which later became the library of the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology . One of the Institute's first actions was to establish a library, with a full-time librarian, at premises in King St., Manchester. The library changed its name in the summer of 2012 to become The University of Manchester Library. The library is one of only five National Research Libraries - an award of the Higher Education Funding Council for England , and the only one in the north of England. It is a member of the North West Academic Libraries consortium and of Research Libraries UK consortium . RLUK was formerly the Consortium of University Research Libraries of which the library was a founder member in the 1980s.
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