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Related Material:M9/71: Draft minutes and letter book of the Public Free Libraries Committee, 1857-1892

Conditions of service, timesheets, staff registers

For donations, see M740/2/10

Information Services administers the library's computerised catalogues and manages information legislation for the library service. For paper catalogues see the individual department or branch M740/8-9; for institution-wide promotion and information, see M740/11.

The first rate-supported library in Manchester was inaugurated on the 2 Sep 1852 in the Hall of Science, Campfield. Over the years the site of the building has changed numerous times until a permanent home was built in St Peters Square. The functions and departments that the Central Library has provided have also changed and expanded to include, for example, the Henry Watson Music Library, Manchester City Archives, the Networks Centre [Computer Suite] and services for individual communities such as the Chinese Library and the Visually Impaired Unit. See department series for more details. See also M740/2/8/2/47-48, 51-54

For institution-wide staff manuals, see M740/2/11/1, for staff circulars see M740/2/12 or for individual departments' staff manuals, see M740/8-9.

Related Material:See M740/11/12/3/1 for dates, architects and costs of some branch libraries

See Chief Librarian's Files (M740/2/8/2-3) for files on facilities matters