Work on our new (ish) online catalogue is progressing steadily. Though we are not yet 'live' with the catalogue, behind the scenes we have catalogued 3614 volumes of our approximately 25,000 and have completed the 'Voyages and Travels' and 'Fine Arts' sections. We are currently working on our specially dedicated 'Local History' section which we are moving to a more prominent position in the Library as we go - it can now be found next to the 'Fine Arts' at the front of the Library.
Our Local History Collection ranges from Memorials of St. Ann's Church, Manchester by Charles Wareing Bardsley, 1877 to Criminal and Miscellaneous Statistical Returns of the Manchester Police: for the year ended the 29th September, 1880 by the Watch Committee of the City of Manchester, 1880 to a number of more recent publications including a variety of pictoral works on Manchester by Chris Makepeace. We even have The Manchester Cookery Book compiled by the Cookery Staff of the Municipal Training College of Domestic Economy, 1937 full of recipes! From architecture to chess, crime to art, the breadth of our Manchester and Greater Manchester History Collection is exciting, and we still don't know the extent to which more volumes are hidden throughout the Library!
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