Country England Established 1972 | Type Academic library Branches seven | |
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Location Oxford Road (near), Manchester Piccadilly station (15 min. walk) Items collected books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, maps, prints, greeting cards, drawings and manuscripts | ||
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. 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.
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.