Oswestry Library

Opening hours

Monday 9.30 to 7.30
Tuesday 9.30 to 5
Wednesday 9.30 to 6
Thursday Closed
Friday 9.30 to 6
Saturday 9 to 5

Facilities

Oswestry Library serves the market town of Oswestry and surrounding villages. For a location map, please follow the link to ShropMap.

Oswestry Library has received two awards from the local community in October 2009. Special Award Certificate from Oswestry and District Civic Society for the new facilities, and Customer Service Award from Oswestry Access Group

As well as an excellent book stock there is a good range of DVDs, compacts discs and talking books.There is a Local History Centre which holds the second largest collection of local studies material in the county for Shropshire after Shropshire Archives in Shrewsbury. The collection also includes books which deal with Wales and the borders.

Fifteen People's Network computers, with free broadband are linked to the Internet. There is also free Wi-Fi access for members of the public wishing to use their own laptop computers.

Other services available from Library:

• local and national newspapers
• photocopier (black and white)
• fax service
• study spaces
• exhibition space
• meeting room
• drinks vending machine
• public toilets and baby changing facilities
• home library service if you cannot come to the library yourself.

A copy of a leaflet outlining service provided can be downloaded or opened online from the link on this page.

Oswestry Library is the administrative headquarters for the seven community libraries in the North Shropshire Area. It is also the base for two mobile libraries. The Oswestry Rural Mobile Library visits communities within a twenty mile radius of the town on a fortnightly basis. The Oswestry Urban Mobile Library visits larger communities from Gains Park to St. Martins either weekly or fortnightly.

Events

Activities for children

There is a programme of events for children which you can see by following the link on this page.

Edward Lhuyd. A touring exhibition by The National Library of Wales

During December 2009 and January 2010, Oswestry Library is the venue for Edward Lhuyd: A touring exhibition by The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
The exhibition was produced to coincide with the Edward Lhuyd International Conference held at Aberystwyth in July 2009. It marked the tercentenary of the death of this eminent local botanist, antiquarian and linguist who was brought up at Lanforda, near Oswestry.
Oswestry Library is the only venue outside Aberystwyth for this important exhibition which explores Lhuyd's most significant contributions to scholarship.
Its nine panels cover Lhuyd's life, his time at Oxford and the Ashmolean Museum, his work as a botanist, antiquary, linguist and collector of fossils, his Archaeologia Britannica, his Grand Tour of 1697 - 1701, and his death and legacy.

Reading group

An active reading group meets on the last Thursday in the month to informally discuss on a set book.

Other events

A full list of events and activities in Oswestry and North Shropshire can be viewed by following the link on this page.

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