Special Collections
Temporary closure of modern entrance
Between Monday, 10 June and Friday, 28 June 2013 access to The John Rylands Library will be via the historic (Deansgate) entrance.If you require lift access to the Library, please use the modern entrance where we can arrange this for you.
Café Rylands and the gift shop will remain open.
The Special Collections of The University of Manchester Library contain some of the most significant printed books and manuscripts ever produced alongside archive collections and visual resources documenting a wealth of cultural, literary, historical and religious traditions from around the world.
Together these rich resources form a research library of global significance, the majority of which is housed in the neo-gothic splendour of The John Rylands Library, one of Manchester’s finest public buildings.
It is an important part of the strategy of the Library to make these unique collections as accessible as possible – both to the scholarly community and the wider public.
- What are Special Collections?
- How to search the collections
- A guide to the collections
- Image collections
- How Special Collections can help your learning and research
- How to become a reader
- Using the reading rooms
- Imaging and digitisation - Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care (CHICC)
- Projects
- Contact us
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