Contact us
Contacting the Library
- Via our online enquiry form
- By telephone:
International callers should prefix the numbers with +44 161.
Callers outside Manchester should prefix numbers with 0161.
Callers from within the University of Manchester may use the last five digits of a telephone number, for example: for a general enquiry at the Main Library use 53751.
General enquiries
- Main Library :
- General Enquiries : 275 3751
- Fax : 273 7488
- Lending Support 275 3717
- High Demand 275 3714
- Special Collections : 275 3764
- Eddie Davis Library :
- General Enquiries : 275 6507
- Fax : 275 6505
- Joule Library :
- General Enquiries : 306 4924
- Fax : 306 4941
- Issue Counter : 306 4923
- Inter Library Loans : 306 4928
- Precinct Library :
- General Enquiries : 306 3200
- Issue Counter : 306 3201
- Inter Library Loans : 306 3204
Service points
- Automated Renewals : 275 3718
- Book Acquisitions : 275 3746
- Cataloguing : 275 3727 or 275 3728
- Customer Services and General Enquiries : 275 3751
- Disability Support Coordinator : 275 3774 or 275 3727
- Document Supply : 275 3741
- Electronic Resources : 275 7388
- High Demand : 275 3714
- IT Support: 306 5544
- Lending Support : 275 3717
- Manchester eScholar : 275 8728
- Membership : 275 3716 or 275 3715
- Periodicals/Serials (acquisitions and binding) : 275 3747
- Photocopying Enquiries: 275 3885
- Store : 306 1536 or 07771345510
- Theses Enquiries :
- General : 306 4946
- Binding : 306 4916
Leadership Team
Jan Wilkinson
University Librarian and Director of The John Rylands Library
Simon Bains
Head of Research and Learning Support and Deputy Librarian
Lorraine Beard
Head of Digital Technologies and Services
Rachel Beckett
Head of Special Collections
Sandra Bracegirdle
Head of Collection Management
Caroline Riches
Finance and Planning Manager
Katy Woolfenden
Head of Customer Services
Personal Assistants
Pamela Morris
PA to Jan Wilkinson and Simon Bains
Carly Rolfe
PA to Lorraine Beard, Sandra Bracegirdle and Katy Woolfenden
