Sir Kenneth Green Library
 The All Saints Building on the All Saints Campus, Chorlton-on-Medlock | |
| Country | England |
|---|---|
| Type | Academic library |
| Established | 1972 |
| Location | Oxford Road (near), Manchester Piccadilly station (15 min. walk) |
| Branches | seven |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, maps, prints, greeting cards, drawings and manuscripts |
| Website | http://www.library.mmu.ac.uk/keyinfo/contacts/allsaints.php |
Sir Kenneth Green Library is the library of Manchester Metropolitan University, in the All Saints building, where it occupies five floors. It was planned as a single central library in 1972 but after the mergers with the Didsbury College of Education and Hollings College it became a central library and administrative centre for seven library sites. From 1975 a catalogue was produced with the aid of the Birmingham Libraries Co-operative Mechanisation Project.[1] From 1992 the library was part of the Consortium of Academic Libraries in Manchester (CALIM) which was extended in 2002 to become NoWAL, the North West Academic Libraries.[2]
The library houses a number of special collections mainly relating to the fine and applied arts, like the Laura Seddon Greeting Card Collection, a collection of 32,000 Victorian and Edwardian greeting cards and 450 Valentine's Day cards dating from the early nineteenth century.[3]
References
- ↑ Rogerson, Ian (1978) "Library", in: The Making of a Polytechnic Building: All Saints Building. Manchester: Manchester Polytechnic; pp. 34–36
- ↑ NoWAL
- ↑ MMU special collections; reading room and gallery