Last updated |
1st January 2020 |
Name of library |
Hereford Cathedral Library |
Address |
5 College Cloisters, Hereford, HR1 2NG |
Telephone |
01432 374225 |
Fax |
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E-mail |
library@herefordcathedral.org |
Website |
https://www.herefordcathedral.org/visiting-the-library |
Alternative names |
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Contact & Job Title |
Dr Rosemary Firman, Cathedral Librarian |
Purpose & main user community of the library |
To care for the cathedral’s historic collections of books, archives, images and objects (including the Hereford Mappa Mundi and the Hereford Cathedral Chained Library); to provide appropriate access to them for researchers at all levels, students and members of the public, through reading room access, exhibitions, talks and visits, online catalogues and social media; to provide a modern lending and reference library which supports religious studies and research on the cathedral’s history. |
Terms of access |
Open to all, free of charge |
Opening hours |
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10am-4pm; 1st Saturday of each month 10am-1pm. Other times by appointment. |
Disabled access |
Lift to all floors, accessible toilet, parking by arrangement |
Lending to other libraries & visitors |
Lending library open to all; inter-library loan of lending books on request; loans of historic books and documents to exhibitions. |
Number of volumes |
c20,000 |
Periodicals – Back Issues |
90 titles (total, including current) |
Current Periodicals |
30 titles |
Other materials |
Archives, images (including digital), museum objects |
Volumes added per year |
c.300 |
Coverage |
Books from the 8th century to the present, mainly on religious and historical subjects. |
Special Collections |
Library of the Hereford College of Vicars Choral; Library of All Saints Parish Church Hereford; More Parish Library (on deposit); Library of Lady Hawkins School Kington (on deposit). |
Manuscripts |
229 medieval manuscript books |
Research resource |
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Catalogue Type |
Printed books online; medieval manuscripts published catalogue; archives partly on TNA Discovery |
URL of catalogue |
https://hereford.mikromarc.no/Mikromarc3/web/default.aspx?db=hereford&unit=6475 |
Other facilities |
Microfilm reader; photocopying |
Full Time Staff |
2 |
Part Time Staff |
1 |
Voluntary Staff |
9 |
Changes in next five years affecting the above |
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Anything else about the library |
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